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I tell you if you stand well in her gratheth , by Jove , Thir , you mutht give yourthelf up to her body and thoul . How the deuthe can a fellow that 's out at drill at hicth in the morning , and all day with his head filled with tacticth and gunnery , and -- and -- ' ` And ` farced pigeons ' and lovely women , ' said Devereux . ` And such dry professional matterth , ' continued he , without noticing , perhaps hearing the interpolation , ` How can he pothibly have a chance againth geniuses , no doubt -- vathly thuperior by nature ' -- -LRB- Puddock , the rogue , believed no such thing -RRB- -- ` but who devote themthelveth to the thtudy of the art incethantly , exclusively , and -- and -- ' ` Impossible , ' said O'Flaherty . ` There now , was Tommy Shycock , of Ballybaisly , that larned himself to balance a fiddle-stick on his chin ; and the young leedies , and especially Miss Kitty Mahony , used to be all around him in the ball-room at Thralee , lookin ' , wondhrin ' , and laughin ' ; and I that had twiste his brains , could not come round it , though I got up every morning for a month at four o'clock , and was obleeged to give over be rason of a soart iv a squint I was gettin ' be looking continually at the fiddle-stick . I began with a double bass , the way he did -- it 's it that was the powerful fateaguin ' exercise , I can tell you . Two blessed hours a-day , regular practice , besides an odd half-hour , now and agin , for three mortial years , it took him to larn it , and dhrilled a dimple in his chin you could put a marrow-fat pay in . ' ` Practice , ' resumed Puddock , I need not spell his lisp , ` study -- time to devote -- industry in great things as in small -- there 's the secret .