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Updated: June 17, 2025
'Tis true, the danger was now over; but the kind Bodagh, thankful in his heart to the Almighty for the escape of his daughter, would not let them go without first partaking of his hospitality.
It would, indeed, be difficult to say whether the house of Bodagh Buie or that of Fardorougha was then in the deeper sorrow. On the morning of Connor's trial, Una arose at an earlier hour than usual, and it was observed when she sat at breakfeast, that her cheek was at one moment pale as death, and again flushed and feverish.
The evidence of Biddy Nulty, some of the other servants, and the Bodagh, who identified some of the notes, was quite sufficient against him, with respect to the robbery.
"If he had," replied the Rouser, "he might count upon Corney an' myself as right-hand men. We all have a crow to pluck wid the dirty Bodagh, an', be me zounds, it'll puzzle him to find a bag to hould the feathers." "One 'ud think he got enough," observed M'Cormick, "in the loss of his haggard."
"Divil a word worth telling; at laste that I can hear." "I mane from Bodagh Buie's." Bartle stared at him; "Bodagh Buie's! what do I know about Bodagh Buie? are you ravin'?" "Bartle," said Connor, smiling, "my father and mother knows all about it an' about your going to Una with the letter. I have no secrets from them." "Hoot toot!
He kept himself as erect and stiff as a poker, and brandished the thong of his loaded whip with the pride of a gentleman farmer. 'Tis true, he did not always hear the sarcastic remarks which were passed upon him by those who witnessed his good-natured vanity: "There he goes," some laboring man on the wayside would exclaim, "a purse-proud bodagh upon our hands.
Or if any man an' he'd be' nothing else than a bodagh that would say it if any man would tell me that you would not, I'd yes I'd give him his answer, as good as I gave to ould Cokely long ago, and you all know what that was. "The next point is, what would you do if you hadn't it about you? Can there be a more melancholy picture than this? No, there can't.
He then passed from themselves and their prospects to Connor and Una O'Brien, with whose attachment for each other, as the reader knows, he was first made acquainted by his fellow-servant. "It's terrible, Biddy," said he, "to think of the black and revengeful heart that Connor bears to Bodagh Buie and his family merely bekase they rufuse to let him marry Una.
His character, however, was held in such abhorrence by all who knew him, and he ranked, in point of personal respectability and style of living, so far beneath the Bodagh, that we question if any ordinary occurrence could be supposed to fall upon the people with greater amazement than a marriage, or the report of a marriage, between any member of the two families.
"Secure Bartle," said Biddy. "He robbed Bodagh Buie's house, an' has the money about him." The horses were already on the road, but, in consequence of both parties filling up the passage in the direction which Bartle and nis followers intended taking, the animals could not be brought through them without delay and trouble, even had there been no resistance offered to their progress.
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