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Updated: June 17, 2025
Always barrin' me little frind Bobs Bahadur, I know as much about the Army as most men." I said something here. "Wolseley be shot! Betune you an' me an' that butterfly net, he's a ramblin', incoherint sort av a divil, wid wan oi on the Quane an' the Coort, an' the other on his blessed silf everlastin'ly playing Saysar an' Alexandrier rowled into a lump. Now Bobs is a sinsible little man.
If you're the sinsible little woman you look to be, you'll put that pearl collar on the coal in the basement tonight, and let me find it." "I haven't got the pearl collar," I protested. "I think you are crazy. Where did you get that bracelet?" He edged away from me, as if he expected me to snatch it from him and run, but he was still trying in an elephantine way to treat the matter as a joke.
"Granting," says he, "that there is the differ you say betwixt the reality ov the cork and these cortical accidents; and that it's quite possible, as you allidge, that the thrue cork is really prisint on the end ov the shcrew, while the accidents keep the mouth ov the bottle stopped still," says he, "I can't undherstand, though willing to acquit you, how the dhrawing ov the real cork, that's onpalpable and widout accidents, could produce the accident of that sinsible explosion I heard jist now."
"If it is a party of Indians they may discover us before we do them." "I don't suppose it will do for us all to walk straight up to them, for they'll be sure to see us then." "No, one must creep up and find whether the coast is clear. Tim has seen more of California than we have, and he can do that if he wishes." "Sinsible agin, for I was about to spake the same.
I was born long after the tragedy, but its shadow has saddened even my own life." When the boy had finished, his voice trembling with emotion as he uttered the last words, his auditors were much affected by the sad tale. Patsy was positively weeping, and the Major blew his nose vigorously and advised his daughter to "dry up an' be sinsible."
On this occasion his remarks were overheard by his grandfather, perhaps because the old man had begun to have thoughts of chances which made him sensitive to signs of discontent in his assistant. And by and by when Terence had gone, he said, "Terence said a very sinsible word; a lad might aisy get a worse start in life, ay indeed he might so, if it was twyste as slack.
She had dropped into a rustic seat, and was thinking over the events of the evening with an amused smile, when the following startling words arose from the adjacent shrubbery: "Arrah, noo, will ye niver be sinsible? Here I'm offerin' ye me heart, me loife. I'd be glad to wourk for ye, and kape ye loike a leddy.
"And I doesn't like all of them as comes here!" answered the dame, "'specially for Paul's sake; but what can a lone 'oman do? Many's the gentleman highwayman wot comes here, whose money is as good as the clerk's of the parish. "That's what I call being sinsible and practical," said Dummie, approvingly.
And then he knows they have arrms wid 'em and are 'hostiles, and he rowls the nearest one over, wheelin' and fightin' and coverin' our retreat till we gets to the road agin. And they daren't folly us out of cover. Then the lady gets more sinsible, and the leftenant pershuades her to mount her horse agin.
"Well, then," says the Pope, "since we've got the reality, there's no use throubling ourselves wid the accidents." "O, begad," says his Riv'rence, "the accidents is very essential too; for a man may be in the best ov good sperits, as far as his immaterial part goes, and yet need the accidental qualities ov good liquor to hunt the sinsible thirst out ov him."
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