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Updated: June 8, 2025
But, in the mane time, who was spakin' about her? Begor, if I thought he had the heart I'd but he hasn't." "I know he hasn't," said the Rouser. "He's nothing but a white-livered dog," said Duffy. "I thought, to tell you the truth," said M'Cormick, "that you might give a guess as to the girl, but for the Bodagh's daughter, he has not the mettle for that."
Its effect, however, was limited within a circle of about a mile, for they could observe that it got faint gradually, from the centre to the extreme verge, where it melted into utter darkness. "They must mean something extraordinary," said Connor; "whatever it is, it appears to be behind the hill that divides us from Bodagh's Buie's house. Blessed earth! it looks as if the sky was on fire!"
"Well, well," observed one of the fellows, who had assisted in holding her down during these wild fits, "you may talk of jinteel people, but be the piper o' Moses, that same sick daughter of the Bodagh's is the hardiest sprout I've laid my hands on this month o' Sundays."
Her brother Alick's to meet me at the Bodagh's on his way from their lodge, for they hould a meetin to-night too." "Never say it again. I'll stick to you; so push an, for it's late. You'll be apt to make up the match before you part, I suppose." "That won't be hard to do any time, Dandy."
For him to be detected lurking about the Bodagh's house might create suspicion, especially after their interview in the garden, which very probably had, through the officiousness of the servants, been communicated to her parents. In a matter of such difficulty he bethought him of a confidant, and the person to whom the necessity of the ease directed him was Bartle Flanagan.
"No, nor it wasn't to me sure I didn't say it was but don't you know my sister's at sarvice in the Bodagh's family?
The other boys now call us the Stags of Lisdhu, that bein' the place where his father lived, an' the nickname you see rises out of his thrachery to poor Connor O'Donovan." "Did he ever give any hint himself about carryin' away the Bodagh's pretty daughter?" "Is it him'? Oh, oh! catch him at it; he's a damn sight too close to do any sich thing."
We must now beg the reader to accompany them to the Bodagh's, where a scene awaited them for which they were scarcely prepared. On approaching the house they could perceive, by the light glittering from the window chinks, that the family were in a state of alarm; but at this they were not surprised; for such a commotion in the house, after what had occurred, was but natural.
"The truth is, they're sworn, it seems, not to prosecute one another, let whatever may happen; an' any one of them that breaks that oath God knows I wish they'd think of others as much as they do of it barrin' a stag that's taken up, an' kep safe by the Government, is sure to be knocked on the head." "Say no more, M'Cormick," said the Bodagh's inestimable son, "say no more.
Alick towld me that, for a long time afther Connor O'Donovan was thransported, the father an' son wor afeard of him. He hard it from his sister Biddy, an' it appears that the Bodagh's daughter tould her family that he used to stare her out of countenance at mass, an' several times struv to put the furraun on her in hopes to get acquainted."
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