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Barney availed himself of this circumstance, opened the door and clapped it to as if he had gone out, but remained at the same time in the inside. "No, sir," replied Sol Donnel, ignorant of the trick which Barney had played upon him, "I never allow a third person to be present at any of those conversations about the strength and power of my herbs.
The agitation she felt, however, was the result of a depression that almost amounted to despair. Her faithful heart was fixed but upon one alone, and she knew that her meeting with any other could not, so far as she was concerned, realize the golden visions of Donnel Dhu.
"Who is this lovely girl approaching us?" asked the young man, whose eyes at once kindled with surprise and admiration. "That is my daughter," replied Donnel, coldly; "what can she want with me now, and what brought her here?" "Upon my honor, Donnel, that girl surpasses anything I have seen yet.
"What's this you say your name is?" "Sol Donnel." "What do you mean by Sol?" He turned up his red eyes in astonishment, and exclaimed: "Well, now, to think that, a larned man as you must be shouldn't know what Sol means! Well, the ignorance of you great people is unknown.
A few minutes brought them to the door, and poor Sarah found herself once more in her own cabin, but in such a state as neutralized most of her father's resentment. When the driver had gone, Donnel came in again, and was about to wreak upon her one of those fits of impetuous fury, in which, it was true, he seldom indulged, but which, when wrought to a high state of passion, were indeed frightful.
The latter proceeded on her way home, having marked the miserable hovel of Condy Dalton. At present our readers will accompany us once more to the cabin of Donnel Dhu, the prophet. His wife, as the reader knows, had been startled into something like remorse, by the incidents which had occurred within the last two days, and especially by the double discovery of the dead body and the Tobacco box.
Many of them were, therefore, nearly as much the dupes of the delusions that proceeded from their own heated imaginations as the ignorant people who looked upon them as oracles; for we know that nothing at all events so much generates imposture as credulity. "Indeed, Donnel," replied Sullivan, "what you say is unfortunately too thrue.
"Do, achora," added the father; "Donnel can have nothing to say to you that can have any harm in it go for a minute or two, since he wishes it." Reluctantly, and with an indomitable feeling against the man, she went out, and stood under the shelter of a little elder hedge that adjoined the house. "Now, tell me," she asked, quickly, "what is it you have to say to me?"
Only before I go, mark my words; there you stand, Donnel Dhu, an' I'm tellin' him to be on his guard against you don't put trust, plaise your honor, in either his word or his oath an' if he's bringin' a charge against any one, give it in favor of his enemy, whoever he is.
Greatrakes then examined him closely, and made him promise to come to Rathfillan that night, in order that he might accompany him to the hut of old Sol Donnel, the herbalist. "I am resolved," said he, "to investigate this matter, and in my capacity of a magistrate to bring the guilty to justice."
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