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A sense of duty demanded that he stay and see the matter through, since his newly-made acquaintance with the tertium quid of Walsh's little party might lead to an introduction to the big man, and for the rest Morris trusted to his own salesmanship. But the drummer settled the matter for him. "On second thought," he said, "I guess I won't wait. Why should I bother with a couple like them?
Robert Hall's Essay on Poetry and Philosophy: Mr. Coleridge's Travels in Germany: An Essay on French Oaths, by Miss Edgeworth: the Rev. W.S. Gilly's Narrative of the Albigenses: Mr. Ellis's Account of the Austral Islands: Dr. Walsh's Account of the Aborigines of Canada; and Mr. Macfarlane's Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor.
'Have you heard any talk about Walsh? the latter inquired, as they walked on. Peak shrugged his shoulders, with a laugh. 'No. Have you? 'Some women in front of me just now were-evidently discussing him. I heard "How shocking!" and "Disgraceful!" Peak's eyes flashed, and he exclaimed in a voice of wrath: 'Besotted idiots! How I wish I were in Walsh's position!
While the confab was on, the Countess Markewicz slipped from Mr. Walsh's car to our paling. She was, as usual, dressed in a "prepared" style. She had on her green tweed suit with biscuits in the pockets, "so if anything happened." Countess Markewicz, rubbing her hands: "Excellent propaganda! Excellent propaganda!" The motor lorries chugged. Soldiers broke line, and climbed in.
You may give them the land for nothing; you may stock their farms they will expect it; you may indemnify them for the seven hundred years of robbery by the English people they say they ought to be indemnified; you may furnish every yeoman with a gun and ammunition, with carte blanche as to their use with litigious neighbours; you may lay on whiskey in pipes, like gas and water, but without any whiskey rate; you may compel the Queen to do Archbishop Walsh's washing, and the Prince of Wales to black his sacred boots, while the English nobility look after the pigs of the foinest pisintry in the wuruld, and still the Irish would be malcontents.
We can never sufficiently praise the legislative wisdom of the new republics of Spanish America which, since their birth, have been seriously intent on the total extinction of slavery. See Walsh's Appeal to the United States, 1819 page 312.
There are some people who cannot stand the sight of blood; Morris was one of them, and the drummer on Frank Walsh's right was another. Both he and Morris turned pale, but the big man on Walsh's left roared his approbation. "Eat him up!" he bellowed, and at every fresh hemorrhage from Mr. Flanagan he rocked and swayed in an ecstasy of enjoyment.
With the children the crippled old woman had been a favorite; she had always a kind word for them, and they paid her back in the way they knew she would have loved best. Not even the coffin of the police sergeant who was a brother of the district leader was so gloriously decked out as old Mrs. Walsh's when she started on her last journey.
Murray noted that Walsh's arms were full of gear enough, indeed, for a full team. Knowing that the foreman owned no dogs, he asked, half banteringly: "You're not getting ready for a trip, I hope?" "No, sir. Not exactly, sir. The dog was cheap, so I I just bought him." As a matter of fact, dogs were not cheap, and Walsh should have been in bed at this hour.
My own connection with this incident was that the funds, or some part of them, for John Walsh's expedition passed through my hands between their collection and their distribution.
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