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In Nogher M'Cormick's last interview with Connor, our readers will please to remember that a hint had been thrown out by that attached old follower, of Flanagan's entertaining certain guilty purposes involving nothing less than the abduction of Una. Now, in justice even to Flanagan, we are bound to say that no one living had ever received from himself any intimation of such an intention.
The nigger of every description yeller, brown, or black, call him 'Chinese, 'Injin, or 'Kanaka, or what you like hez to clar off of God's footstool when the Anglo-Saxon gets started! It stands to reason that they can't live alongside o' printin' presses, M'Cormick's reapers, and the Bible! Yes, sir! the Bible; and Deacon Hornblower kin prove it to you.
Even against persons of his own creed the Irishman thinks that revenge is a duty which he owes to himself; but against those of a different faith it is not only a duty but a virtue and any man who acts out of this feeling, either as a juror, a witness, or an elector for the principle is the same must expect to meet such retribution as was suggested by a heart like Nogher M'Cormick's, which was otherwise affectionate and honest.
The armed leaders among the people, Messrs. MacManus, Stephens and Cavanagh, hesitated to fire on troops flying for their lives. But they urged the pursuit so rapidly, that, by the time the police took shelter in Mrs. M'Cormick's house, they were hot upon their track. The crowd surrounded the house, and Mr. O'Brien, approaching one of the front windows, called on Captain Trant to surrender.
They occupied an eminence in front of the road by which the police approached. Another road crossed this at right angles, and Captain Trant, instead of leading his men directly against Mr. O'Brien's position, denied along the cross-road to the right hand that which led to the Widow M'Cormick's. The motive of this manoeuvre was obvious.
M'Cormick's children, and held them up to the windows, to terrify or appease the people. At this juncture the Catholic clergymen appeared on the scene. Either, being appalled by the scene of death before them, or being personally cowardly, or feeling that to continue the conflict would be productive of useless slaughter, they exerted themselves to the utmost to disperse the crowd.
Our readers may remember Nogher M'Cormick's rebuke to him, when he heard Fardorougha allude to this; and so accessible was he then to the feeling, that, on finding his heart at variance with it, he absolutely admitted his error, and prayed to God that he might be enabled to overcome it.
I have too much regard for my masther's house an' family to let you or any one else in to-night. Come in the mornin'." "Folly me, Alick," said Biddy, "folly me." She went immediately to the hall-door, and gave such a single rap with the knocker, as brought more than Kitty to the door. "Who's there?" inquired a voice, which she and her brother at once knew to be Ned M'Cormick's.
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