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Make me sure of that, and I'm happy." "I think you're both mad," replied Donnel. "Did I say that I was a murdherer? Why didn't you hear me out?" "You needn't," returned Nelly; "I knew it since yestherday mornin'." "So you think," he replied, "an' it's but nathural you should, I was at the place this day, and seen where you dug the Casharrawan.
As for Donnel M'Gowan, cunning and unscrupulous, his plan was to secure Mave for young Dick o' the Grange, a small landowner, and a profligate. To do this he relied on the help of his daughter Sarah and was disappointed. For Sarah was to find Mave Sullivan her friend, and she renounced her father's scheme, so that no harm happened to the girl. III. The Shadow of Crime
Woodward who was quick in the conception of his projects, had them all laid even then; and in order to work them out with due effect, he resolved to pay a visit to our friend, Sol Donnel, the herb doctor. This hypocritical old villain was uncle to Caterine Collins, the fortune-teller, who had prognosticated to him such agreeable tiding's on the night of the bonfire.
Mave remained silent; for she knew the insurmountable obstacles that prevented their union; but she wept afresh. "When I saw your father last, behind your garden, the day I struck Donnel Dhu," Dalton proceeded, "I tould him what I then believed to be true, that my father never had a hand in your uncle's death. Mave, dear, I cannot tell a lie; nor I will not.
This he did, closing his account by the usual burthen of all his conversation ever since he went to gaol: "I know I must suffer; but I think nothing of myself, only for the shame it will bring upon my family." Sarah's unexpected illness disconcerted at least one of the projects of Donnel Dhu.
The allusion to her hair; added to the last observations, reminded her that it might be possible that he had some message from her lover, and she consequently seemed to waver a little, as if struggling against her strong, instinctive abhorrence of him. "Don't be afeard, Mave dear," said her mother, "sure, poor honest Donnel wishes you well, an' won't prophesize any harm to you. Go with him."
"Fight it out," said Donnel Dhu, "its a nice quarrel, although Sal has the right on her side." "If you prevent me," said she, disregarding her step-mother, "you'll rue it quickly; or hould I'm beginnin' to hate this kind of quarrellin' here, let her have as much meal as will make my supper; I'll do without any for the sake of the childhre, this night."
She, too, was to be made useful, and, so far as money could do it, faithful to his designs diabolical as they were. He accordingly went one night, about the hour mentioned by Donnel, to the cabin of that worthy man; and knocking gently at the door, was replied to in a peevish voice, like that of an individual who had been interrupted in the performance of some act of piety and devotion.
Next morning before departing, Donnel repeated to Mave Sullivan his prophecy of the happy and prosperous marriage. But Mave, who knew where her affection rested, found no comfort in these predictions, for the Daltons were pressed as hard by poverty as their neighbours.
Evening was now tolerably far advanced; Donnel Dhu sat gloomily, as usual, looking into the fire, with no agreeable aspect; while on the opposite side sat Nelly, as silent and nearly as gloomy-looking as himself.
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