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His lips were white, and there was a queer look in his face. "Oh! So this is your party, is it, Miss Beth?" he said. "You ask your friends in, and then you insult them, I see." Beth was still effervescing. She put her hands behind her back and answered boldly "'Deed, thin, he insulted me, papa. It was Bap-faced Flanagan. He said we were durrty heretics, and and I'll not stand that!
"The durrty heretics," a slouching fellow, with a flat white face, muttered under his breath. "But if they benefit here, they'll burn hereafter, holy Jasus be praised." "Will they?" said Beth, turning on him. "Will they burrn hereafter, Bap-faced Flanagan? No, they won't! They'll hunt ye out of heaven as they hunted ye out o' Maclone.
It was found next morning that Bap-faced Flanagan and Tony-kill-the-cow had disappeared from the township; but Murphy remained; and Beth was not allowed to go out alone again for a long time, not even into the garden.
"It's Bap-faced Flanagan or Tony-kill-the-cow," she cried. "I can see O papa! why did you pull me back? Now I shall never know!" The servants had rushed in from the kitchen, and Mrs. Caldwell came flying downstairs. "What is it, Henry?" she cried. "The d d scoundrels shot at me with the child in my arms," he answered, looking in his indignation singularly like Beth herself in a stormy mood.
Murphy was trying to persuade him to take something hot out of a bucket, while Bap-faced Flanagan and another man, known as Tony-kill-the-cow, looked on and gave good advice. Beth's fury revived when she saw Murphy, and she laughed aloud derisively. All three men started and looked up, then crossed themselves. "Didn't I tell ye, Pat!" Beth exclaimed.
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