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Love, however, is often a disturber of families, as in the case of Reilly and Cooleen Bawn; and so is an avaricious ambition, when united to a selfish and a sensual attachment, as in the case of Whitecraft. It is unnecessary now, and it would be only tedious, to dwell upon the energetic preparations that were made for the three approaching trials.
Having seriously considered his position and all the circumstances' of danger connected with it, Reilly resolved that his interview that night with his beloved Cooleen Bawn should be his last. He accordingly communicated his apprehensions to an aged uncle of his who resided with him, and entrusted the management of his property to him until some change for the better might take place.
"Farewell, papa," she said, weeping all the time, for, in truth, she found it impossible to control herself; "farewell good night! and remember that you may have a great deal to forgive your own Cooleen Bawn some of these days." On leaving the bedroom, where she was hurried by her feelings into this indiscreet dialogue, she found herself nearly incapable of walking without support.
Brown, I must see my mistress! if she is my mistress, or anybody's mistress now," and accordingly she approached the settee on which the Cooleen Bawn sat. The old squire was wringing his hands, sobbing, and giving vent to the most uncontrollable sorrow. "Oh, Ellen," said he, "pity and forgive me. Your mistress is gone, gone! she knows nobody!"
This gentleman, however, who possessed at once a rapacious heart and a stupid head, might have fleeced half the country had the one been upon a par with the other. He was, besides, in his own estimation, a lady-killer, and knew not how these interviews with the fair Cooleen Bawn might end.
Arrangements were consequently made between them as to the time and manner of their escape, and those arrangements, together with the dialogue he had overheard, Lanigan communicated to the Cooleen Bawn. The squire on that day experienced strange alternations of feeling. His spirits seemed to rise and sink, as the quicksilver in the glass is affected by the state of the atmosphere.
I'll be as stiff as she is stout; but, at any rate, she's worth waitin' for." "You may well say so," replied Reilly, "and I can quarrel neither with your attachment nor your patience; but you will not forget to let her know the provision which I have left for her in the hands of Mr. Hastings, and tell her it is a slight reward for her noble attachment to my dear Cooleen Bawn.
"Good-night, papa-dear, dear papa," she added, putting her snowy arms about his neck and kissing him tenderly. "I know," she added, "that the great object of your life is to make your Cooleen Bawn happy and in doing so, dear papa there now is another kiss for you a little bribe, papa in doing so, consult her heart as well as your own. Good-night." "Good-night, my treasure."
"Well, Fergus," proceeded Reilly, "perhaps there is but half my dream of life gone; who knows when I return if I ever do but my dream may be completed? and happily, too; I know the truth and faith of my dear Cooleen Bawn. And, Fergus, it is not merely my dear Cooleen Bawn that I feel for, but for my unfortunate country.
And so the four of us are to be married on the same day; and we're all to live with the squire." "We are, Fergus; the Cooleen Bawn will have it so; but, indeed, her father is as anxious for it almost as she is. Ah, no, Fergus, she could not part with her faithful Ellen, as she calls me; nor, after all, Fergus, would her faithful Ellen wish to part with her?"
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