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Updated: June 17, 2025
But the arrival of the mail by the Tuesday steamer brought Neil Andrews, Doolan, Gourlay and the stern, but honest-faced old Scot, Andrew Clark, all at different times during the afternoon. Not one of them could resist the temptation and go away without making some substantial purchases. I held religiously to the Rev.
"I think that there is something up, Major. I can hear noises somewhere near where Mr. Hunter's bungalow was." "What sort of noises, Richards?" "There is a sort of murmur, as if there were a good many men there." "Well, gentlemen, we had better go to our posts," the Major said. "Doolan, please place your watch on the platforms by the wall. I will take my party up onto the terrace.
"She is a distant relation a second cousin of some Scotch lord or other, and, on the strength of that and her husband's colonelcy, gives herself prodigious airs. Three of the captains are married. Mrs. Doolan is a merry little Irish woman. You will like her. She has two or three children. She is a general favorite in the regiment. "Mrs. Rintoul I suppose she is here still, Major, and unchanged?
Walter had, with the assistance of Larry Doolan, built this boat for going out fishing. It was extremely light, being a mere framework covered with tarred canvas. As soon as Walter had reached the village, and found that the fishermen considered that no boat could possibly be put out, he had found and held a consultation with Larry. "Do you think the curragh could go out, Larry?"
Each of you pick out a particular bush, and watch it till you see the exact position in which anyone firing from it must be in, and then try to silence him. Don't throw away a shot if you can help it. We have a good stock of ammunition, but it is as well not to waste it. I will leave you in command at present, Doolan." Major Hannay then went down to the storeroom.
The ladies went into the room that served as a nursery, and with the ayahs and other female servants carried the children down into the storeroom. "I would much rather be up there," Isobel said to Mrs. Doolan; "we could load the muskets for them, and I don't think it would be anything like so bad if we could see what was going on as being cooped up below fancying the worst all the time."
"Stow that flummery," cried Jorrocks, putting his hands before his face, under pretence of blushing at the compliment; but Doolan took no notice of him further, proceeding with his yarn.
"Sure an' you're a foine gintleman, taking it aisy," said Pat Doolan, when I went up to him. "An' is it a pannikin o' coffee you'll be afther wanting, this watch?" "I shouldn't refuse it if you offered it," said I, with a laugh. "Be jabers, you're the bhoy for the coffee!" he replied cheerily. "An' its meeself that's moighty proud to sarve you.
Captain Doolan, therefore, accompanied by Bathurst and Dr. Wade, went out. They were conducted to the great tent where all the Zemindars and the principal officers of the Sepoys were assembled. Bathurst acted as spokesman.
The night's journey on the top of the Alacrity was one of the most agreeable I ever enjoyed in my life, and it was your liveliness and urbanity that made the trip so charming. I have often thought over that happy night, sir, and talked over it to Mrs. Doolan. I have seen your elegant young friend, Mr. Foker, too, here, sir, not unfrequently.
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