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The magistrate interposed and begged him to at least let O'Connell rest there until a doctor could patch him up. It might be dangerous to take him back without medical treatment. He assured Nathaniel that the moment they could move him he would be lodged in the county-jail. Nathaniel went back to his study as the sorry procession passed on to the front door. He sent immediately for his sister.
"Him we knew as a baby," said another. "Fightin' O'Connell! Hooray for him!" shouted a third. "Mary's own child standin' up there tall and straight to get us freedom and comfort," crooned an old white-haired woman. "And broken heads," said another old woman. "And lyin' in the county-jail himself, mebbe, this night," said a third. "The Lord be with him," cried a fourth.
Monmouth is not a large town, having but six thousand inhabitants, but it takes a mayor, four aldermen, two bailiffs, and twelve councillors to govern them, and its massive county-jail is a solid warning to all evil-doers. From the summit of the lofty Kymin Hill, rising seven hundred feet on the eastern side of the town, there is a grand panorama over the valley of the Wye.
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