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Updated: June 6, 2025
My agony, in spite of feeling Denham's hand pressing firmly on my heel, seemed to have culminated; but the worst was to come, and I shivered, for a high-pitched voice cried in Dutch: "Hwhat's all this? Didn't I tell ye to loy still and slape till it was time to start? Why, ye blundering, thick-headed idiots, you have made enough noise to rouse the Englanders."
"I care not now how soon my awn glass may run out. I've so fret myself ower this mischance that the wrinkles'll soon come." "She needn't wait much for them if she's anxious to be off," whispered Liza to Rotha. "Yes," continues Mrs. Garth, in her melancholy soliloquy, "I fret mysel' the lee-lang day." "She's a deal over slape and smooth," whispered Liza again. "What's it all about?
I cros't m'self seven times an' says I 'God rest th' sowls ov all here, an' God prosper th' sowl ov Hughie Thornton. I wint t' slape an' slept th' slape ov th' just till twelve be th' clock. I was shuk out ov slape be a screech that waked th' dead! "Och, be th' powers, Jamie, me hair stud like th' brisels on O'Hara's hog.
It was Mulvaney who was speaking. The time was one o'clock of a stifling June night, and the place was the main gate of Fort Amara, most desolate and least desirable of all fortresses in India. What I was doing there at that hour is a question which only concerns M'Grath, the Sergeant of the Guard, and the men on the gate. 'Slape, said Mulvaney, 'is a shuparfluous necessity.
"Slape!" exclaimed Maroon, looking up from the great stone whose joints he had been carefully cementing, "it's little slape you'll do here, boys. Av we're not washed off entirely we'll have to howld on by our teeth and nails. It's a cowld look-out." Teddy was right.
'I should miss me slape, Mike, says he, 'if it shouldn't all come back to ye. 'An' if it don't, says I, 'there'll be two uv us lyin' awake, an' ye'll have plinty of company; an' what they lose in dhraimin' they'll take out in cussin', says I. 'Mike, says he, 'ye hadn't better do it, an' if ye do, I don't take no resk; an' says I, 'they're all goin' in, an' I'm goin' wid 'em. 'Very well, says he, lookin' kind o' sorry, and then, be gorry, he scooped the whole pile, an' barrin' the ile uv his purty spache, divil a bit have I seen more nor four dollars."
It's my notion we can be nate an' clane if we are poor, an' it'll be your part to make ivery wan of thim beds ivery day an' kape the floor clane. Larry an' mesilf, we'll slape in the kitchen, an' it's hopin' I am you'll kape that shoinin', too. An' then there's the coal to be got in an' the ashes to be took out.
'Slape until you wake, my son, says I. 'Judy will give us breakfast at eight. 'No, no, father, says he. 'General Kelly is wearying for this letter from General Banks. If I get it through prompt it will be remembered for me, he says. ''T will be a point toward promotion, he says. 'My horse has had a couple of hours' rest, and he's a Trojan beside, he says.
"Shure it's the Dunsloe horse fair, your honour the greatest horse-fair in all Oireland. It lasts for a wake, and the folk come from far an' near from England an' Scotland an' iverywhere. If you look out of the winder, your honour, you'll see the horses, and it's asy your honour's conscience must be, or you wouldn't slape so sound that the creatures didn't rouse you with their clatter."
Now, it has occurred to my chum Westly an' me, that it would be better, safer, and surer to buy him up, than to fight for him, an' as I know some o' you fellers has dug up more goold than you knows well what to do wid, an' you've all got liberal hearts lastewise ye should have, if ye haven't I propose, an' second the resolootion, that we make up some five hundred pounds betune us, an' presint it to Bully Gashford as a mark of our estaim if he'll on'y give us up the kay o' the prison, put Patrick Flinders, Esquire, sintry over it, an' then go to slape till breakfast-time tomorry mornin'."
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