“Raoul says he offered to give the captain his house and all the furnishin’s.”
“Och, mother o’ Moses! and thim illigant girls, too!”
“Ov coorse.”
“By my sowl! an’ if I was the captain, I’d take him at his word, and lave off fightin’ intirely.”
“It is delf,” said a soldier, referring to the material of which the parapet was constructed.
“No, it ain’t.”
“It’s chaney, then.”
“No, nor chaney either.”
“Well, what is it?”
“It’s only a stone wall painted, you greenhorn!”