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"Yes, yes, I remember, I heard the story," said Peter. "She and Mr. Forsyth got lost." "Axin' your pardin, sorr, she didn't. Mr. Forsyth loid. Loid like an officer and a jintleman as he is, God bless him to save a leddy, more betoken your sister, sorr. They never got lost, sorr.
Ugh! pouff! we've drove them clane overboard! Murther! but it's meltin' I am and as dhry as a limekiln!" Then I heard the skipper hailing, apparently from the forecastle "Is that Mr Ryan's voice that I hear, aft there?" "Ay, ay, sorr," answered the second luff; "it's myself, bedad, all that's left ov me!"
"Aye, aye, sorr," answered the boatswain as before; and as he spoke I could see a tall seaman making his way aft in obedience to the first mate's orders; and, before Mr Mackay had time to walk across the deck, he had mounted the poop, cast off the lashings that prevented the wheel from moving, and was whirling the spokes round with both hands in thorough ship-shape style.
He does it without thinking," I replied. "Thankin' you for the complimint, sorr, ut may be so. But I'm doubtful whether you mint ut for a complimint. Hear now; I sat there wid Judy on my knee tellin' me all manner av nonsinse an' only sayin' 'yes' an' 'no, when I'd much better ha' kept tongue betune teeth. An' that was not an hour afther I had left Dinah!
"Sure, sorr, 'tis a dhrain it is," said the Irishman; "from the placer up beyant," he added, pointing to a washed-out excoriation on the steep upper slope of the mountain. "Major Evarts did be tellin' us we'd have the lawyers afther us hot-fut again if we didn't be lavin' ut open the full width." "Mmph!" said Adams, looking the ground over with a critical eye. "It's a bad bit.
Now, I put ut to you, Sorr, is ten days' C. B. a fit an' a proper tratement for a man who has behaved as me? 'Well, any'ow, said Ortheris,'tweren't this 'ere Colonel's daughter, an' you was blazin' copped when you tried to wash in the Fort Ditch. 'That, said Mulvaney, finishing the champagne, 'is a shuparfluous an' impert'nint observation.
"Will, sorr," said the mate, speaking more earnestly than was his usual wont, and dropping his voice so that no one else could hear him. "To spake the truth and shame the divil faix it's no lie I'm telling we're right in the centre of a cyclone, and the Lord only knows if we'll iver git out of it!" "I thought so," murmured Mr Meldrum; "my poor children!"
How did you fare along your side of the house?" "Three kilt, an' maybe a dozen wounded. Oi got chipped up myself, but only the skin av me. Those lads come up fierce, sorr, an' they'd 'a' made it too, only fer our ravolvers. We must have shot a dozen of 'em right in the winders." "And the rest of the house do you know how they came out?" "Oi do, sorr; Oi've made the rounds.
Finlay opened a drawer, and turning, placed in Ravenslee's hand a heavy gold ring curiously wrought into the form of two hands clasping each other. "It was my Maggie's," continued Martin, "an' I guess she valleyed it a whole lot, sorr. I found it hid away with odds and ends as she treasured. But she don't want it no more she's dead, ye see, sorr I killed her drowned, sorr I drowned her.
"Shpooks," he replied, laconically. I gasped in astonishment, and sat down. My knees simply collapsed under me, and I could no more have continued to stand up than fly. "What?" I cried, as soon as I had recovered sufficiently to gasp out the word. "Shpooks," replied Barney. "Ut came about like this, sorr.
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