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Ormond

Chapter 4 

Word Count: 2852    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

a list of all his faults, and of all his good resolutions for the future. He took out his pencil, and

ND'S GOOD

ll never drink more than

at I will cure mysel

That I will neve

flattery - women's, especially, I

mo

arm, who came pattering on bare-foot in a kind of pace indescribable to those who have never

t write till this morning any way - but has his service to ye, Master Harry, will be in it for ye by half after two with a bed and blanket for Moriarty, he bid me say on acc

k Islands was then produced from the m

ick:- you'll see it from the boat, standing three foot high above the walls, waiting while I'm building up to it - to get attics - which I shall for next to nothing - by my own contrivance. Meantime, good dry lodging, as usual, for all friends at the palace. He shall be well tended for you by Sheelah Dunshaughlin, the mother of Betty, worth a hundred of her! and we'll soon set him up again with the help of such a nurse, as well as ever, I'll engage; for I'm a bit of a doctor, you know, as well as every thing else. But don't let any other doctor, surgeon, or apothecary, be coming after him for your life - for none ever gets a permit to land, to my knowledge, on the Black Islands - to which I at

self, as he finished this letter. "King or no king, the mo

Moriarty's head ached terribly, but he nevertheless enjoyed the playing of the pipes in his ear, because of the air of triumph it gave Master Harry, to go away in this grandeur, in the face of the country. King Corny ordered the discharge of twelve guns on his landing, which popped one after another gloriously - the hospitable echoes, as Moriarty called them, repeating the sound. A horse, decked with ribands, waited on the shore, with King Corny's compliments for Prince Harry, as the boy, who he

Ormond was intended for a prince, he sits ahorse so like m

d ali

ly welcome, with which he was

letters right. As I am neither bishop nor arch, I have, in their blind eyes or conceptions, no right - Lord help them! - to a temporal palace. Be that as it may, come you in with me, here into th

ceiling and cornice, and fine chimney-piece with caryatides of white marble, ill accord

till it is finished, I use it for a granary or a barn, when it would no

t, King Corny dressed Moriarty's wound with exquisite tenderness and skill; for he had actually acquired know

here they stood round the king, prince, and Father Jos the priest, as the courtiers, during the king's supper at Versailles, surrounded the King of France. But these poor people were treated with more hospitality than were the courtiers of the French king; for as soon as the dishes were removed, their

e, and let me see you do justice to my claret, or the whiskey punch if you pr

"Till supper-time," thought Father Jos

instantly, and held down to his chair. The royal command was laid upon him "to sit still an

st the figure of Father Jos, and all the noisy mirth of the preceding night. No

u, Master Harry," said the girl,

cried Harry

ut middling; he concaits he could not sleep becaase he did not get a sight of your honour afore he'

ess of King Corny - his passionate temper, when opposed on this tender point - the locked door - and two to one: in short, there was an impossibility in the circumstances of doing otherwise than what he had done. But then the same impossibility - the same circumstances - might recur the next night, and the next, and so

t only to forget Moriarty, but to have been again incapable of commanding his passions, if any thing had occurred to cross his temper, determined Ormond to make a firm resistance on the next occasion that should occur: it did occur the very next night. After a dinner given to his chief tenants and the genteel people of the islands - a dinner in honour and in introduction of his adopted son, King Cor

asure. After a decent time of sitting, the bottle passing him without farther importunity, Ormond rose - it was a hard struggle; for in the face of his ben

k of the door - it was a bad l

r you! No heart, afte

my benefactor, my friend; you have said it - think it you did not - you could not, but say it you may - You may say what you will to Harry Ormond, bound to you as he is - bound hand and foot and heart I- Trample on him as you will -you may. No heart! Oblige me, gentlemen, some of you," cried he, his anger rising and his eyes kindling as

out of my heart worse than the gout: not a drop of gall or malice in your nature, nor ever was, more than in the child unborn. But see, I'll tell you what you'll do now, Harry, to settle all things - and lest the fit should take me ever to be mad with you on this score again. You don't choose to drink more than's becoming? - Well, you'se right, and I'm wrong. 'Twould be a burning shame of me to make of you what I have made of myself. We must do only as well as we can. But I will ensure you against the future; and be

aid Father Jos, stopping his hand, "an

But against pressing him to it - I'll take my oath I'll

n knew that there was a wide and material difference betwixt a gentleman who was fond of his bottle, and that unfortunate being, an habitual drunkard. For his own par

d, it was happy for our hero that an unqualifying

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