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I never had ill-will against you; an' in spite of what has happened, I haven't now." A feeling of generous regret, almost amounting to remorse, instantly touched Dalton's heart; he seized the hand of Donnel, and expressed his sorrow for the blow he had given him. "My God," he exclaimed, "why did I strike you? But sure no one could for a minute suppose that you weren't in earnest."
I'll take care of Sarah for you till you come back." At this moment a tap came to the door, and Donnel, on hearing it, went out, and in a minute or two returned again, saying "Hurry, Biddy; make haste, if you wish to go at all; but remember not to be more than an hour away."
Nelly M'Gowan, as she was called, had strongly cautioned her against both Donnel and Sarah, but then Nelly herself was completely in the dark as to the character of the injury against which she warned her, so that her friendly precautions were founded more upon the general and unscrupulous profligacy of Donnel's principles, and his daughter's violence, than upon any particular knowledge she possessed of her intentions towards her.
"Dear Mave," said Dalton, "I must now get home as soon as I can; I don't feel so well as I was there is a chill upon me, and I'm afeared I won't have a comfortable night." "And I can do nothing for you!" added Mave, her eyes filling with tears. "I didn't thank you for that lock of hair you sent me by Donnel Dhu," he added.
Her brother, a boy of about fourteen years of age, happened to be present when the accident took place, having been sent by his father and mother to bring them word how the match went on between the rival spinsters. Johnny Corrigan was accordingly despatched with all speed to Donnel M'Cusker's, the wheelwright, in order to get the heck mended, that being Biddy's last but hopeless chance.
"Charley, they say America's a fine place; talkin' about money wid a little money there, they say a man could do wondhers." "Who says that?" "Why Donnel Dhu, for one; an' he knows, for he was there." "I b'lieve that Donnel was many a place; over half the world, if all's thrue." "Augh! the same Donnel's a quare fellow a deep chap a cute follow; but, I know more about him than you think ay, do I."
"That's his own affair, you know," said Donnel Dhu; "but his son, master Richard, or 'Young Dick, as they call him, will be an improvement upon the ould stock."
'An eagle will be sick, says St. Columbkill, 'but the bed of the sick eagle is not a tree, but a rock; an' there, he must suffer till the curse of the Father* is removed from him; an' then he'll get well, an' fly over the world." * This is the Pope, in consequence of Bonaparte having imprisoned him. "Is that in the prophecy, Donnel?" "It's St. Columbian's words I'm spakin'."
"I'm sorry myself for what has happened, and especially as you were present. I'm afeard, indeed', that a man's life would be but little in that boy's hands under a fit of passion. I provoked him too much, though." "I think so," said Sullivan. "Indeed, to tell you the truth, I had as little notion that you wore jokin' as he had." "That's my drame out last night, at all events," said Donnel.
Devil a sich a tyrant in Europe," said he, loudly, "when he wishes an' yet, after all," he added, in a low, confidential voice, just loud enough for his master to hear, "where 'ud one get the like of him? Tom Booth, desire them to fetch warm water to the study, till I dress his poor leg, and make him fit for business." "Here is Donnel Dhu," replied Booth, "waitin' for law business."
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