The House by the Church-Yard

, in the sanctuary of his little parlour, was growling over the bones of a devilled-turkey, and about to soothe his fretted s

and shouted with ecstasy. O’Flaherty, who called for punch, and was unfortunately prone to grow melancholy and pugnacious over his liquor, was now in a saturnine vein of sentiment, discoursing of the charms of his peerless mistress, the Lady Ma

unction, the perfections of ‘pig roast with the hair on:’ and the two made a medley like ‘The Roast Beef of Old England,’ and ‘The La

O’Flaherty pronounced it “Sorr,”) wheth

particular retheipt,’ answe

l, and at the same time winking to Puddock in token that O’Flaherty was just a little ‘he

eration, and fixing his eyes steadily and rather unpleasantly upon Nutt

a head of hair as you could wish to see,’ says Nut

to see?’ repeated

r he was not easily put down; and they looked for several second

use, seemed to forget Nutter, an

eedy has the most beautiful dimpl

it, Sir?’ enquired Devereux, simply, wi

h a very dangerous glare; ‘and I’d like to see the man

s in these jolly days — by making timely little diversions, and it is wonderful, at a critical moment, what may be done by suddenly presenting a trifle; a pin

d-daughter, as who had a better right — I say, who had a better right?’ and he smote his hand upon the table, and looked round inviting contradiction. ‘My godmothers, in my baptism —

exclaimed Toole, with a

y’s neeme, Sir?’ demanded

s, extracting all the satire, and giving it quite a dignified and creditable character, for the Lieutenant Fireworker smelt so confoundedly of powder that the little doctor, though he never flinched when occ

, where she met him during the assize week; and, being a man of a weak and considerate nature, rather kind, and very courteous — although his smile was very near exploding into a laugh, as he gave the good lady snuff out of his own box — he was yet very much concerned and vexed, and asked his lady, when he went home, how she could have induced old Mrs. Macnamara to give that absurd name to her poor infant; whereat her ladyship, who had not thought of it since, was highly diverted; and being assured that the babe was actually christened, and past recovery Magnolia Macnamara, laughed very merrily, kissed her lord, who was shaking his head gravely, and then popped her hood on, kissed him again, and, laughing still, ran o

able to Magnolia’s knight as possible, by not very scrupulous excisions and interpolations he wound

ay, lieutenant, to a W

nt nodded a

e one, Nutter

said N

not?’ s

in praise of oysters,’ answered

cratch a gray head, On a supper

— without instantaneously becoming the mark at which O’Flaherty directed his fiercest and most suspicious scowls? And now that I know the allusion which the

age can have in that. But I’ll take leave to tell you, Sir, that a gentleman, whether he be a “youth” as you say, or aged, as you are, who endayv

bully. It is true, he had not the faintest notion why he was singled out for the young gentleman’s impertinence; but neithe

r social — a — a — sociality, Sir; and the long and the short of it is, young gentleman, if you don’t change you

al voices

able of anything. ‘I believe, Sir,’ he continued, addressing Nutter, who confronted him like a little game-cock, ‘it is not usual f

ght on one side with an ugly expression, and

to suppose himself affronted in the manner, whatever it may be, most intolerable to his feelings, which request I now, Sir, teeke the libertee of preferring to you; and when you have engaged the services of a friend, I trust that Lieutenant Puddock, who lodges in the same house with me, will, in consideration of my being an officer of the same honourable co

w, and a pause of enquiry directed

ons, painful; but I— I can’t ref

d silently and loftily round the room, and disappear

present I— a — that is, at the moment, I— a — don’t quite see —[the fact is, he had not a notion what the deuce it wa

and official, and the representatives merely of a ceremonious etiquette and a minutely-regulated ordeal of battle. S

us smile, which implies no hilarity, but a kind of reaction in presence of the astounding and the slightly horrible. There was a silence; the gentlemen kept thei