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Such was our hero, the fame of whose personal beauty, as well as that of the ever-memorable Cooleen Bawn, is yet a tradition in the country. On this occasion the dinner-party consisted only of the squire, his daughter, and Reilly. The old man, on reflecting that he was now safe, felt his spirits revive apace.
Here a deep panting of the bosom, accompanied by violent sobs, was heard by the party, and Cooleen Bawn whispered to Reilly, in a voice nearly stifled by grief and excitement: "Dear Reilly, I love you; but it was madness in us to take this step; let me return to my father only let me see him safe?" "But Whitecraft?" "Death sooner. Reilly, I am ill, I am ill; this struggle is too much for me.
My conscience is light and airy, like a beggarmans blanket, as they say; and, barrin' that I once got drunk wid your uncle in Moll Flanagan's sheebeen house, I don't know that I have much to trouble me. Spare him, then, and take me, if it must come to that. He has the Cooleen Bawn to think for. Do you think of her, too; and remember that it was she who saved your uncle from the gallows."
Next to Cooleen Bawn, however, one of his first inquiries was after Fergus Reilly, whom he found domiciled with a neighboring middleman as a head servant, or kind of under steward. We need not describe the delight of Fergus on once more meeting his beloved relative at perfect liberty, and free from all danger in his native land.
They had no time to lose in the tender expressions of their feelings. Each shook hands with, and bid farewell to, poor affectionate Connor, who was now drowned in tears; and thus they set off, with a view of leaving the kingdom, and getting themselves legally married in Holland, where they intended to reside. Reilly and the Cooleen Bawn Escape, and are Captured.
"Fergus," said Reilly, "can you tell me how the Cooleen Bawn bears the sentence which sends me to a far country?" "How would she bear it, sir? You needn't ask: Connor, at all events, will not part from her not, anyway, until you come back." "Well, Fergus," proceeded Reilly, "I have, as I said, provided for you both; what that provision is I will not mention now. Mr. Hastings will inform you.
At all events, I have locked the door that opens from the kitchen into the servants' hall, so that they cannot be interrupted from that quarter." When the Cooleen Bawn entered, she shrank back instinctively. The disguise was so complete that she could not impose even on her imagination or her senses.
There was, however, another individual upon whose heart the calamity of the Cooleen Bawn fell like a blight that seemed to have struck it into such misery and sorrow as threatened to end only with life. This was the faithful and attached Ellen Connor.
"Mr. Reilly," exclaimed the Cooleen Bawn, "this this is I am quite unprepared for I mean to hear that such noble and generous conduct to my father should end in this. But it cannot be. Nay, I will not pretend to misunderstand you. After the service you have rendered to him and to myself, it would be uncandid in me and unworthy of you to conceal the distress which your words have caused me."
The expression of sorrow which shaded her very handsome features, and a paleness which was unusual to her, alarmed them considerably not so much from any feeling connected with herself, as from an apprehension that some new-distress or calamity had befallen the Cooleen Bawn, to whom they all felt almost as deeply attached as she did herself.
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