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"There is no hope of a reprieve. He is to be executed at seven at the Tir National. All we have secured for you is permission to accompany him to the end. But if you think that too painful, too great a strain, I would suggest that you " "Nothing could overstrain me," said Vivie, "or rather I don't care if anything kills me.
The queen tried to dissuade him, but in vain. She asked him how long he supposed he had been absent. Oisin told her: "Thrice seven days." She replied that three times thrice seven years had passed since he arrived in Tir na n'Og; and though Time could not enter that land, it would immediately assert its dominion over him if he left it.
"Well," said the Empress, as she stopped in front of me after dejeuner, "are you alive?" "I am, your Majesty, and, strange to say, my heart is intact." "Wonderful!" she said, "you are an exception." I had enough of the chasse a tir last year, and I still see in my dreams those poor birds fluttering in their death-agony. Anything better than that!
Mummed in names: A. E., eon: Magee, John Eglinton. East of the sun, west of the moon: Tir na n-og. Booted the twain and staved. How many miles to Dublin? Three score and ten, sir. Will we be there by candlelight? Mr Brandes accepts it, Stephen said, as the first play of the closing period. Does he? What does Mr Sidney Lee, or Mr Simon Lazarus as some aver his name is, say of it?
"However, I mean to make my headquarters at La Tir, immediately we have taken it, for the effect of having the leader of the army promptly established on conquered territory." "I understand that," replied the premier. "But still you stake your life? That is the greatest thing a man has to stake. You stake your life on victory?" he demanded fiercely. "I do!" said Westerling. "Yes, my life.
I want to look at war face to face, free of the will-o'-the-wisp glamour that draws on soldiers!" "We fall back to our first line of defence, fighting all the time. The Grays occupy La Tir, which will be out of the reach of our guns. Your house will no longer be in danger, and we happen to know that Westerling means to make it his headquarters."
The literary class was so strong that in the little kingdom of Tir Conall in Donegal alone the value of ten thousand dollars of the revenue was set aside yearly for its support and purposes; whereby one would imagine that for all things else they could but have had a nickel or so left. This is culture with a vengeance.
Jacob Pilzer is most bellicose; he chafes at inaction, while they all suffer the discomforts of an empty factory building in the rear of South La Tir which has become a temporary barracks.
From the Observatory we saw the destruction of a German trench. There had been signs of work upon it, so it was decided to close it down. It was a very visible brown streak a thousand yards away. The word was passed back to the '75's' in the rear. There was a 'tir rapide' over our heads. My word, the man who stands fast under a 'tir rapide, be he Boche, French or British, is a man of mettle!
I saw numbers of them just arriving at La Tir, footsore and limping." "I know. Mine's been indoor work, making paints," said the very tired voice. "When you've had long hours in the shop and had to sit up late with sick babies, you aren't fit for marching. And I think I've got lead-poisoning." "Whew!"
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