... shall be-come a shell, and the shell a fish, and the fish a bird, and the bird abeast; and then he shall become a man again, and see the glory of the latter days’’ (–); and so Alton ‘‘passed, ... contempt for ‘themIrishers,’ and by pleasure at the idea of the bungling way in which theywould set to work, and perplex their new masters with their ignorance and stupidity’’ (). And the Irish ... weretogether, to live and die; and as we looked into each other’s eyes, and claspedeach other’s hands above the dead man’s face, we felt that there was lovebetween us, as of Jonathan and David,...