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Here, you bitter old randle-tree, there are three thirteens for you; and if you will go down to the kitchen with the cook, he will give you a regular skinful. The cook, knowing that the Cooleen Bawn wished to send some message back to you, sir, brought me down, and gave me not only plenty to ait and drink, but stuffed the praskeen that I had carried the eggs and chickens in with as much cold meat and bread as it could contain."
"Don't be so particular in your descriptions, Mrs. Buckley," said Reilly. "Did you see the Cooleen Bawn?" "Look at that," she replied, opening her hand, and showing him a golden guinea "don't you know by that that I seen her? but you must let me go on my own way.
The cook had this from the girl herself, who was the sarra for dress; but, anyhow, while the the spy was tumbling about Cooleen Bawn's dresses, the darlin' herself whipped downstairs, and coming to me says, 'The cook tells me you have a message for me. Jist at this moment, and after she had slipped the letter into her bosom, her father turns a corner round the garden, and seeing his daughter, which was a very unusual thing, in conversation with a person like myself, he took the alarm at once.
Cummiskey, who is a Catholic, might overlook our being here at this hour; because, although he is rather in the light of a friend than a servant to your father, still he is a friend to Reilly as well; but as for that ugly Scotchman, that is nothing but bone and skin, I would place no dependence whatever upon him." We will not describe the meeting between Reilly and the Cooleen Bawn.
A settled gloom a morose, dissatisfied expression soon overshadowed his features, from which disappeared all trace of that benignant, open, and friendly hospitality towards Reilly that had hitherto obtained from them. He and the baronet exchanged glances of whose import, if Reilly was ignorant, not so his beloved Cooleen Bawn.
The strange, and ahem kind of man you are called upon to meet now is one of our bishops but don't you pretend to know that he has heard of your love for the Cooleen Bawn, and of her love for you be easy now not a thing it will be but the meeting of two thunderbolts between you and he's afraid you'll be deluded by her charms turn apostate on our hands and that the first thing you're likely to do, when you get out of this subterranean palace of ours, will be to betray its existence to the heretics.
The very moment he made his appearance all eyes were fastened on him, and whatever the prejudices may have been against the Cooleen Bawn for falling in love with a Papist, that moment of his appearance absolved her from all from every thing. A more noble or majestic figure never stood at that or any other bar.
The poor old man's mind was once more at ease, and after these rough, but not intractable, men had given three cheers for "bould Willy Reilly," three more for the Cooleen Bawn, not forgetting the priest, the latter, while returning thanks, had them in convulsions of laughter.
"Nonsense, you cowardly dogs," replied their leader indignantly; "can't we lave the country?" "Well, if you're bent on it," replied his followers, "we won't be your hindrance." "We can break up, and be off to America," he added. "But what will you do with the Cooleen Bawn, if you take her?" they asked.
We will not attempt to describe the tumult of delight which agitated Reilly's heart on his way home, after this tender interview with the most celebrated Irish beauty of that period. The term Cooleen Bawn, in native Irish, has two meanings, both of which were justly applied to her, and met in her person.
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