George A. Birmingham

Name: The Search Party — Chapter 14
Author: George A. Birmingham

The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

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“The Search Party — Chapter 14”, published in 1912, is a work by George A. Birmingham. It explores elements such as O'Grady, anarchist and Patsy Devlin.

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ The Emperor has frightfully strict, old-fashioned ideas about lots of things. He objects to cards, for instance, as demoralizing. I'm sure that mixed bathing would simply horrify him. There's no greater mistake than to think that just because a man's an anarchist, you can do what you like without shocking him. You can't. The Emperor has his prejudices just like the rest of us."
Patsy Devlin set Mr. Sanders on his feet and rubbed him down carefully. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ O'Grady, "are you an anti-military anarchist getting into training for the simple life? Or are you a new recruit undergoing the ceremony of initiation into the brotherhood? Or is it nothing but the heat of the day?"
Mr. Red and the bearded anarchist dragged Mr. Sanders into the room and deposited him, still bound, on the floor.
"Oh," said the doctor, "another captive! Good. But don't overdo the thing, Emperor. You can't you know, go on storing up men in this way without attracting public attention. Patsy Devlin and I are all right, of course. We're not important people. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ Patsy Devlin has a wife who may be out looking for him."
"The minute she'd find out I was gone," said Patsy, "she'd be up at the barrack telling the police, the way she'd have me brought back to her."
"And now," said the doctor, "it turns out that Mr. Dick has a wife, or perhaps two, of an unusually affectionate kind. And you have a wife and an aunt who have some regard for you. That makes five women altogether, all of them more or less energetic, and all of them bent on finding us. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ In fact, if I certified at all, I'd certify that you are a particularly strong and enduring kind of man, and that a little imprisonment would do you good."
"But why——? Why should——?"
"Because the first thing you'd do when you got out would be to bring the police down on us here, and that's exactly what we don't want." ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ O'Grady, "nor is Patsy Devlin. So far we haven't been asked to join the organization. We're simply prisoners. We've been captured by the brotherhood. But we had sense enough to wear our ordinary clothes. You may think it's the proper thing to go about in nothing but your shirt because you happen to be in the house of an anarchist, but I can tell you——"
Mr. Sanders, who still lay on the floor, groaned dismally.
"Loose that fellow, Patsy," said the doctor. "He appears to be in pain of some sort."
"Anarchists! " said Mr. Dick. "Good heavens! How frightful! My wife! My poor wife!" ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ Sanders.
"It's all right. Don't be afraid. The mixtures he makes hardly ever go off. And in any case he won't want to blow you up unless you are a soldier. You're not in the army, are you? You don't look as if you were."
"No."
"Or in the militia? The Emperor has a perfect horror of militiamen. Hasn't he, Patsy?"
"He damn nearly shot me," said Patsy, "when I told him I'd been in the militia."
"Let's get back to the bicycle," said Dr. O'Grady. "Mrs. Dick's bicycle, as I understand, which you wanted to mend. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ The Emperor won't do her any harm. He's a thorough gentleman in every way, a chivalrous gentleman, and I'm perfectly certain he wouldn't ill-treat a woman. You may rely on it that she'll be made quite comfortable. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 14 (1912)

“ O'Grady. "Or are you a separate and distinct capture, unconnected with the gentleman in the flannel shirt?"
"I don't bathe," said Mr. Sanders, "because I have a weak heart and it doesn't agree with me."
"Then what were you doing? You must have been doing something which annoyed the Emperor. He may be a bit touched in the head. Most of us are, more or less; but he's not so mad as to saddle himself with the expense of boarding and lodging a fellow like you unless you have been doing something he dislikes. What were you at?"
"I was mending a bicycle, Mrs. Dick's bicycle ”

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