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"Oh, I forgot. I didn't think that----" Poor Leonore stopped there,
horrified at what she had said.
"No," said Peter, "Dennis is not a foreigner. He's one of the most
ardent Americans I know. As far as my experience goes, to make one of
Dennis's bulls, the hottest American we have to-day, is the
Irish-American."
"Oh, come," said Watts. "You know every Irishman pins his loyalty to the
'owld counthry.'"
"Shure," said Dennis, "an' if they do, what then? Sometimes a man finds
a full-grown woman, fine, an' sweet, an' strong, an' helpful to him, an'
he comes to love her big like. But does that make him forget his old
weak mother, who's had a hard life av it, yet has done her best by him?
Begobs! If he forgot her, he wouldn't be the man to make a good husband.
Oi don't say Oi'm a good American, for its small Oi feel besides Misther
Stirling. But Oi love her, an' if she ever wants the arm, or the blood,
or the life, av Dennis Moriarty, she's only got to say so."
"Well," said Watts, "this is very interesting, both as a point of view
and as oratory; but it isn't business.


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