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Innocence on a monument could have appeared no freer of guile than Henriette at that moment. She handed the note to Mrs. Shadd, who perused it with growing amazement. "Isn't that your handwriting and your crest and your paper?" asked Henriette, appealingly. "It certainly looks like it," said Mrs. Shadd. "If I didn't know I hadn't written it I would have sworn I had. Where could it have come from?"
Can you not let the Arrmy rest? 'Tis not good for Terence. I took refuge by Mulvaney, for Dinah Shadd has a temper of her own. 'Let be let be, said Mulvaney. 'Tis only wanst in a way I can talk about the ould days. Then to me: 'Ye say Dhrumshticks is well, an' his lady tu?
"A word wid you, Dempsey," sez I. "You've walked wid Dinah Shadd four times this fortnight gone." "What's that to you?" sez he. "I'll walk forty times more, an' forty on top av that, ye shovel-futted clod-breakin' infantry lance-corp'ril." 'Before I cud gyard he had his gloved fist home on my cheek an' down I went full-sprawl.
The whiskey was lent and returned, but Dinah Shadd, who had been just as eager as her husband in asking after old friends, rent me with "I take shame for you, sorr, coming down here though the Saints know you're as welkim as the daylight whin you do come an' upsettin' Terence's head wid your nonsense about about fwhat's much better forgotten. He bein' a civilian now, an' you niver was aught else.
"Will that content you?" sez he, blowin' on his knuckles for all the world like a Scots Greys orf'cer. "Content!" sez I. "For your own sake, man, take off your spurs, peel your jackut, an' onglove. 'Tis the beginnin' av the overture; stand up!" 'He stud all he know, but he niver peeled his jackut, an' his shoulders had no fair play. I was fightin' for Dinah Shadd an' that cut on my cheek.
As a postscript let me say that until he reads this I don't believe Tommy Dare ever guessed what a successful joke he perpetrated upon Mrs. Shadd and the fair Henriette. Even then I doubt if he realizes what a good one it was on everybody.
Shadd wrested the leadership from Mrs. Gaster two seasons ago with her orang outang dinner, don't you?" I confessed to having read something about such an incident in high society. "Well," said Henriette, "this would have thrown that little episode wholly in the shade. Of course Mrs. Shadd is doing this to retain her grip, but it irritates me more than I can say to have her get it just the same.
The pay was eighty-five rupees a month, and Dinah Shadd said that if Terence did not accept she would make his life a 'basted purgathory. Therefore the Mulvaneys came out as 'civilians, which was a great and terrible fall; though Mulvaney tried to disguise it, by saying that he was 'Ker'nel on the railway line, an' a consequinshal man.
Next day the news was in both barricks, an' whin I met Dinah Shadd wid a cheek on me like all the reg'mintal tailor's samples there was no 'Good mornin', corp'ril, or aught else. 'An' what have I done, Miss Shadd, sez I, very bould, plantin' mesilf forninst her, 'that ye should not pass the time of day? "'Ye've half-killed rough-rider Dempsey, sez she, her dear blue eyes fillin' up.
Stand off from him, Dinah Shadd, before he takes you down too you that look to be a quarther-master- sergeant's wife in five years. You look too high, child.
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