[Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Lever]@TWC D-Link bookCharles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon Volume 2 (of 2) CHAPTER XVII 6/9
Just took a run off to see the sights.
I was all over Lisbon this morning; saw the Inquisition and the cells and the place where they tried the fellows,--the kind of grand jury room with the great picture of Adam and Eve at the end of it.
What a beautiful creature she is; hair down to her waist, and such eyes! 'Ah, ye darling!' said I to myself, 'small blame to him for what he did.
Wouldn't I ate every crab in the garden, if ye asked me!'" "I must certainly go to see her, Maurice.
Is she very Portuguese in her style ?" "Devil a bit of it! She might be a Limerick-woman with elegant brown hair and blue eyes and a skin like snow." "Come, come, they've pretty girls in Lisbon too, Doctor." "Yes, faith," said Power, "that they have." "Nothing like Ireland, boys; not a bit of it; they're the girls for my money; and where's the man can resist them? From Saint Patrick, that had to go and live in the Wicklow mountains--" "Saint Kevin, you mean, Doctor." "Sure it's all the same, they were twins.
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