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"I saw him, but I could not have speech with him, Captain," said Mr. Garbetts. "And why the devil not?" asked the other. "There was one there I cared not to meet, nor would you," the tragedian answered in a sepulchral voice. "The minion Tatham was there, Captain." "The cowardly scoundthrel!" roared Costigan. "He's frightened, and already going to swear the peace against me."
Then looking at Jamie, he said: "Here's t' ye, Jamie, an' ye, Anna, an' th' scoundthrel O'Hare, an' here's t' th' three that niver bred, th' priest, th' pope, an' th' mule!" Then at a draft he emptied the bottle and threw it behind the fire, grunting his satisfaction. "Wudn't that make a corpse turn 'round in his coffin?" Billy said.
Sure ye don't want to be reading over that nonsense." "O Emilee!" cried the Captain, "that boy whom I loved as the boy of mee bosom is only a scoundthrel, and a deceiver, mee poor girl:" and he looked in the most tragical way at Mr. Bows, opposite; who, in his turn, gazed somewhat anxiously at Miss Costigan. "He! pooh! Sure the poor lad's as simple as a schoolboy," she said.
There's promises there, sir, enough to fill a bandbox with; and when I have dragged the scoundthrel before the Courts of Law, and shown up his perjury and his dishonour, I have another remedy in yondther mahogany case, sir, which shall set me right, sir, with any individual ye mark me words, Major Pendennis with any individual who has counselled your nephew to insult a soldier and a gentleman.
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