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The toast was drunk standing, with shouts of "Cap'n Pete," and, amid much hammering on the table, stamping on the floor, and other thunderings of applause, Cap'n Pete rolled up to reply. After a moment's pause, in which he distributed sage winks and nods on every side, he said: "I'm not much for public spaking myself. I made my best speech and my shortest in church this morning I will.
The woman had reached the first angle of the square when the upper half of the Court-house door broke into light over the heads of the crowd. A man had come out. He surged through the crowd and "came down to the gate with a tail of people trailing after him and asking questions. "Wonderful!" he was saying. "The Dempster's spaking. Aw, a Daniel come to judgment, sir.
"You desarve none for them words," said Fardorougha, who felt that Nogher's buffoonery jarred upon the better feelings that were rising within him "you desarve none, an' you'll get none for the present at laste, an' I'm only a fool for spaking to you." He then retired to the upper part of the kiln, where, in a dark corner, he knelt with a troubled heart, and prayed to God.
On cooling his burning blood with the "hydraulics," he again lay down with the intention of composing himself for another sleep; but his eye having noticed the novelty of his situation, he once more called Nancy. "Nancy avourneen," he inquired, "will you be afther resolving me one single proposition. Where am I at the present spaking? Is it in the Siminary at home, Nancy?"
"'No, said others, spaking out when they heard any body at all having courage to do so 'it's too bad, boys, to burn the place; for if we do, says they, 'some of the innocent may be burned before they get from the house, or even before they waken out of their sleep. "'Knock at the door first, says Slevin, 'and bring Vengeance out; let us cut the ears off of his head and lave him.
"She's not far off neither," said Philip, still winking vigorously. "But don't trouble about them, Mr. Cregeen. They'll want no supper. They're feeding on sweeter things than herrings even." Saying this he swallowed a gulp with another laugh. Cæsar lifted his head with a pinch of his herring between finger and thumb half way to his open mouth. "Were you spaking, sir?" he said.
"Faith, and I hope that it's not falling back we'll be, till after we've had the satisfaction of spaking to them a bit," Tim Doyle put in. "Barring the little affair of today which isn't worth mentioning I haven't had a chance of a scrimmage since I joined the corps.
I found out who the people were that the Red Captain had come down to, and I watched and watched their place, till one day I saw him come there. Then I followed him and found out whereabout they were hiding. I kept about till, that evening, I had a chance of spaking to Denis for a minute. He is broken-hearted, your honor, but he daren't lave them.
There wasn't a pazon for fifty miles, anywhere, and it was night-time, too, and the woman was stretched by the camp-fire and sinking. 'What's to be done? says the men. I'll do it, says I, and I did. One of the fellows got a breakfast can of water out of the river, and I dipped my hand in it. 'What's the name, says I; but the poor soul was too far gone for spaking.
Lord keep him from the gallows and hell-fire! Oh, it's a refreshing saison. It was God spaking to me by Providence when I tould you to put money on that mortgage. What's the Scripture saying, 'For brass I bring thee goold'? Turn him out, sir, turn him out." "Didn't you tell me that ould Ballawhaine had a polatic stroke?" said Pete. "I did; but he's a big man; let him pay his way," said Cæsar.
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