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One dusty July afternoon, somewhere around the turn of the century, Patrick
Malone was in Mulcahey's Bar, bending an elbow with the other street car
conductors from the Brooklyn Traction Company. While they were discussing the
merits of a local ring hero, the bar goes silent. Malone turns around to see
his wife, with a face grim as death, stalking to the bar.
Slapping a four-bit piece down on the bar, she draws herself up to her
full five feet five inches and says to Mulcahey, "Give me what himself has
been havin' all these years."
Mulcahey looks at Malone, who shrugs, and then back at Margaret Mary
Malone. He sets out a glass and pours her a triple shot of Rye. The bar is
totally silent as they watch the woman pick up the glass and knock back the
drink. She slams the glass down on the bar, gasps, shudders slightly, and
passes out; falling straight back, stiff as a board, saved from sudden contact
with the barroom floor by the ample belly of Seamus Fogerty.
Sometime later, she comes to on the pool table, a jacket under her
head. Her bloodshot eyes fell upon her husband, who says, "And all these
years you've been thinkin' I've been enjoying meself."
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1064 of 2298 |
One expresses well the love he does not feel.
-- J.A. Karr
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1065 of 2298 |
One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1066 of 2298 |
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,
a rivalry of aim.
-- Henry Brook Adams
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1068 of 2298 |
One girl can be pretty -- but a dozen are only a chorus.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Last Tycoon"
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1069 of 2298 |
One good reason why computers can do more work than
people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1070 of 2298 |
One good suit is worth a thousand resumes.
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1071 of 2298 |
One good thing about music,
Well, it helps you feel no pain.
So hit me with music;
Hit me with music now.
-- Bob Marley, "Trenchtown Rock"
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One good turn asketh another.
-- John Heywood
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