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If any one I mean a Whiteboy," here M'Carthy started, struck by the peculiarity of the pronunciation a circumstance which by no means strengthened his sense, of security "if any of them should come across you and ask you for the pass, here it is. What's the hour? Answer Very near the right one. Isn't it come yet? Answer The hour is come, but not the man. When will he come?
"I think I know him now," said M'Carthy; "and if I judge correctly, he is anything but a safe guide." "Come," said the huge Whiteboy, "make up your mind; I won't weet another minute." M'Carthy paused and deliberately reconsidered as coolly as possible all the circumstances of the night.
You are likely to find a polite pagan under the mask of the modern Italian you feel pretty sure that any of his race would with a little washing and skillful manipulation, restore, like a neglected painting, into something genuinely graceful and pleasing; but if one of these Yankeefied Celts were scraped, it is but too possible that you might find a kern, a Whiteboy, or a Pikeman.
"There will be no fighting, my hero," replied the father, laughing; "if there were, Phil, I would myself rise above all claims for military glory; but here there will be nothing but a healthy chase across the country after an occasional rebel or whiteboy, or perhaps the seizing of a still, and the capture of many a keg of neat poteen, Phil eh? What do you say to that my boy?"
"'Ha, ha, replied Raymond with a bitter smile, 'ha, ha! Let them take it, and see what Captain Whiteboy will do? He has the possession ha, ha an' who'll get him to give it up? Who dare take that, or any of Captain Whiteboy's farms? But sure it's not, much only a coal, a rushlight, and a prod of a pike or a baynet but I know who ought to have them.
A Whiteboy outbreak, attended by the usual circumstances of disorder and violence, took place while Burke was in Ireland. It suited the interests of faction to represent these commotions as the symptoms of a deliberate rebellion.
Do you see that old chap up there, John? he said. He was a good Irishman when there was no money in the job. He was condemned to death as a whiteboy. But he had a saying about our clerical friends, that he would never let one of them put his two feet under his mahogany. Dante broke in angrily: If we are a priest-ridden race we ought to be proud of it! They are the apple of God's eye.
They accordingly shook hands, and M'Carthy gave him the genuine grip, as he had been taught it by the Whiteboy. "Right," said the man, "for so far; now, what's the hour?" "Very near the right one." "Isn't it come yet?" "The hour is come, but not the man." "When will he come?" "He is within sight."
No man was ever afflicted with such convenient maladies as Phelim; even his sprains, tooth-aches, and colics seemed to have entered into the Whiteboy system. But, indeed, the very diseases in Ireland are seditious. Many a time has a tooth-ache come in to aid Paddy in obstructing the course of justice; and a colic been guilty of misprision of treason.
Reillaghan and M'Kenna both reached the chapel a considerable time before the arrival of the priest; and as a kind of Whiteboy committee was to sit for the purpose of investigating their conduct in holding out so dangerous an example as they did, by striking each other, contrary to their oaths as brothers under the same system, they accordingly were occupied each in collecting his friends, and conciliating those whom they supposed to be hostile to them on the opposite party.
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