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"I learned nothing from them, Senor Desmond," at length replied Gab. "They were friends of the Spaniards, I confess; and they wanted to know how many people were assembled in this house, and in Senor Concannan's; also if there were many fighting men in the village, and whether you expected a party of the insurgent troops to come here."
He replied that it was my duty to forgive insult, and asked what Tom Rudge had said to me. I told him. "I thought that you were an orphan," he observed, "the son of Mr Concannan's sister, and that your father was dead." "Mr Concannan is my uncle, sir," I replied; "but my father is alive and well, I hope, in South America."
Though smaller than I had supposed, I at once knew the house to be that in which I was born. "And beyond it there, higher up the hill, you see Mr Concannan's mansion Castle Concannan, we call it, you'll remember and a pretty dacent castle it is, with its high, thick walls and courtyard; it would take a pretty strong earthquake to shake it down.
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