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"It is Saver above, Ned, how is this? all's lost!" "No, no I hope not but go an' watch them; we'll folly as soon as we get help. My curse on Alick Nulty, he disappointed me an' didn't come; if he had, some of the Bodagh's sarvant boys would be up wid us in the kitchen, an' we could bate them back aisy; for Flanagan, as I tould you, is a dam-coward."
Connor, having got a clean sheet, secured them, and was about to submit them to the care of the Bodagh's servants, when it was suggested that the duty of bringing them home devolved on himself, inasmuch as he was told they would not remain, unless placed in a new skep by the hands of the person on whose property they had settled.
They had now reached the Bodagh's house, upon which, as upon every other object around them, the deep shadows of night rested heavily.
"Faith, sure enough that's but gospel, Ned," replied the Dandy; still it 'ud be the milliah murdher to let the double-faced villin carry off such a girl." "I'll tell you what you'll do, thin, Dandy," rejoined Ned, "what if you'd walk down wid me as far as the Bodagh's." "For why? Sure they're in bed now, man alive."
He resolved, therefore, to plead mistake, and to produce Kitty Lowry to prove that his visit that night to the Bodagh's house was merely to fulfil their mutual promise of eloping together. But there was the robbery staring him in the face; and how was he to manage that? This, indeed, was the point on which the accomplished villain felt by the sinking of his heart that he had overshot his mark.
It was at least fifteen minutes before they reached the little avenue that led up to the Bodagh's residence; for we ought to have told our readers, that M'Cormick and Duffy, having taken a short path, left the others who, being ignorant of it, were forced to keep to the road considerable behind them. Ned was consequently from ten to fifteen minutes in the house previous to their arrival.
Bodagh; "and what's your day's wages?" "Ten pence." "There's half-a-crown; an' I tell you more, you must come an' take a cot tack undher me, and you'll find the change for the betther, never fear." In point of fact in was so concluded, and Nogher left the Bodagh's house with a heart thankful to Providence that he had ever entered it.
"An' you tuck the right way to do that," they replied ironically; and they added, "Bartle Flanagan, you may thank the oaths we tuck, or be the crass, a single man of us wouldn't assist you in this consarn, afther your cowardly behaver to this poor girl. Takin' away the Bodagh's daughter was another thing; you had betther let the girl go home."
Faith I got a whisper of it some time ago, but it wint out o' my head. Biddy Nulty, faix a nate clane girl she is, too." "But that's not the best of it, Dandy. Sure, blood alive, I can tell you a sacret may dipind? Honor bright! The Bodagh's daughter, man, is to give her a portion, in regard to her bein' so thrue to Connor O'Donovan.
Both then proceeded at a quick puce until they reached the corner of Bodagh's garden, where, with brief but earnest reassurances of unalterable attachment, they took a tender and affectionate farewell.
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