— Que fecit cœlum et terram.
— Dominus vobiscum.
— Et cum spiritu tuo.
And he laid his hands upon the blessed and gave thanks and he prayed and they all with him prayed :
— Deus, cuius verbo sanctificantur omnia, benedictionem tuam effunde super creaturas istas : et praesta ut quisquis eis secundum legem et voluntatem Tuam cum gratiarum actione usus fuerit per invocationem sanctissimi nominis Tui corporis sanitatem et animæ tutelam Te auctore percipiat per Christum Dominum nostrum.
— And so say all of us, says Jack.
— Thousand a year, Lambert, says Crofton or Crawford.
— Right, says Ned, taking up his John Jameson. And butter for fish.
I was just looking round to see who the happy thought would strike when be damned but in he comes again letting on to be in a hell of a hurry.
— I was just round at the courthouse. says he, looking for you. I hope I’m not...
— No, says Martin, we’re ready.
Courthouse my eye and your pockets hanging down with gold and silver. Mean bloody scut. Stand us a drink itself. Devil a sweet fear! There’s a jew for you! All for number one. Cute as a shithouse rat. Hundred to five.
— Don’t tell anyone, says the citizen.
— Beg your pardon, says he.
— Come on boys, says Martin, seeing it was looking blue. Come along now.
— Don’t tell anyone, says the citizen, letting a bawl out of him. It’s a secret.
And the bloody dog woke up and let a growl.
— Bye bye all, says Martin.
And he got them out as quick as he could, Jack Power and Crofton or whatever you call him and him in the middle of them letting on to be all at sea up with them on the bloody jaunting car.
— Off with you, says Martin to the jarvey.
The milkwhite dolphin tossed his mane and, rising in the golden poop, the helmsman spread the bellying sail upon the wind and stood off forward with all sail set, the spinnaker to larboard. A many comely nymphs drew nigh to starboard and to larboard and, clinging to the sides of the noble bark, they linked their shining forms as doth the cunning wheelwright when he fashions about the heart of his wheel the equidistant rays whereof each one is sister to another and he binds them all with an outer ring and giveth speed to the feet
