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"I will," Morty answered, genuinely distressed. "But I'm asking, is there no other way?" "There is none," Asgill said. And he opened the gate. Payton was waiting for him on the path under the yew-trees, with two of his troopers on guard in the background. He had removed his coat and vest, and stood, a not ungraceful figure, in the sunshine, bending his rapier and feeling its point with his thumb.
James answered. "And I've no taste to make the trial." He did not name the oath he had taken to attempt nothing against Colonel John, nor to be a party to any attempt. He had slurred over that episode. He had dwelt in preference on the fact of the will and the dilemma in which it placed him. Asgill looked for some moments between his horse's ears, flicking his foot the while with his switch.
I am here upon the invitation of my friend, The McMurrough " "This is not his house." Asgill stared. "Do you mean " "I mean what I say," the Colonel answered. "This is not his house, as you well know." "But " "It is mine, and I do not propose to entertain you, Mr. Asgill," Colonel John continued. "Is that sufficiently plain?" The glove was down.
The fact was that the public, as is commonly the case, had forgotten the original crime and saw only the misery of the man who was to pay the just penalty, and who was, in this instance, an innocent and vicarious sufferer. It was difficult to refuse Vergennes, and Congress, glad of the excuse and anxious to oblige their allies, ordered the release of Asgill.
The worse, the worse, the worse for him! Luke Asgill rode slowly from the gates, not without a backward glance that raked the house. The McMurrough walked by his stirrup, talking rapidly he, too, with furtive backward glances. In five minutes he had explained the situation and the Colonel's vantage ground.
That he could at the same time put his creditor under an obligation, and annoy him, had not been the least part of the temptation; while no one at Tralee believed the story sent down from Dublin. He did not credit it even now for more than two seconds. Then common sense, and his knowledge of Luke Asgill reassured him. "Eh! An awkward time, perhaps?" he repeated, looking at The McMurrough.
It's meet that one who has left the faith of his fathers, and turned his back on his country in her trouble it is well that he should try to make others act as he has acted, and be false as he has been false! Caring for nothing himself, cold, and heartless " He was about to interrupt her, but on the word the door opened and her brother and Asgill entered, shaking the moisture from their coats.
In the end, after waiting some time in the vain hope that he would appear, Asgill went in to supper. Colonel Sullivan was not there; he was in no condition to descend. Nor was Flavia; whereon Asgill reflected, with chagrin, that probably she was attending upon the invalid. Payton was at table, with the two O'Beirnes, and three other buckeens.
Payton, with his mouth open, glared at the speaker in a manner that at another time must have provoked him to laughter. "Isn't that the fact?" Asgill asked coldly. "The fact!" the other burst forth. "No, I'm cursed if it is! And you know it is not!
"Anything else amiss with it?" he asked. "No. But the devil a bit do I see why you bring Flavvy into it?" "Don't you?" "I do not." Asgill drew rein, and by a gesture bade his groom ride on. "No?" he said. "Well, I'll be telling you. He's an obstinate dog; faith, and I'll be saying it, as obstinate a dog as ever walked on two legs!
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