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"I must interrupt you a moment," said Lord Dunroe. "I thought the person the unfortunate young man here was the son of Sir Thomas's brother?" "And so did he," replied Corbet; "but I will make the whole thing simple at wanst. When he was big enough to be grown out of his father's recollection, I brought back his own son to him as the son of his brother.
"Is not that the happy country where the people live without food? Where they lead a life of independence, and starve in such an heroic spirit?" "My dear Dunroe," said his father, seriously, "never sport with the miseries of a people, especially when that people are your own countrymen."
It was now, too, that his indignation against his daughter and him who had seduced her from his roof began to deepen in his heart. Had he succeeded in seeing her united to Lord Dunroe, previous to any exposure of himself supposing even that discovery was possible his end, the great object of his life, was, to a certain extent, gained.
She talks of workin' out some prophecy that she tould Sir Thomas Gourlay about himself and his daughter." "She may talk as much about that as she likes," replied the old fellow. "She called him plain Thomas Gourlay, didn't she, and said he'd be stripped of his title?" "So she told me; and that his daughter would be married to Lord Dunroe."
Lord Dunroe, having no strength of character to check his profligate impulses, was, in the course of some years, thrown off by all his high connections, and reduced to great indigence. Norton's notion of his character was correct. The society of that treacherous sharper was necessary to him, and in some time after they were reconciled.
Pshaw, my dear Tom, it is too much. It's a proof that he wants character." "I wish, in the mean time, Dunroe, that you and I had as much of that same commodity as the good old peer could spare us." "Well, I suppose you do, Tom; I dare say. My sister is coming with him too." "Yes; so he says in the letter."
But with respect to my daughter, will the marriage be with her own consent?" "With her own consent it will be the dearest wish of her heart." "Could you name her husband?" "I could and will. Lord Dunroe will be the man, and he will make her Countess of Cullamore." "Well, now," replied the other, "I believe you can speak truth, and are somewhat acquainted with the future.
If you could conceive Michael the Archangel resplendent with truth, brightness, and the glory of his divine nature, and compare him with the meanest, basest, and at the same time wickedest spirit that ever crawled in the depths of perdition, then indeed you might form an opinion as to the relative character of this Dunroe and my noble lover.
Norton," he proceeded, "to have it in my power to thank you for the friendship and kindness which my son, Lord Dunroe, has been so fortunate as to receive at your hands. He speaks of you with such warmth, and in terms of such high esteem, that I felt naturally anxious to make your acquaintance, as his friend. Pray be seated."
"What is this, sir what means this, gentlemen? This house, pray recollect, is a house of death and of suffering." "It is the truth, Miss Gourlay," replied the Dean. "Here stands the veritable Lord Dunroe, whose father is now the earl of Cullamore." "But, sir, I don't understand this." "It is very easily understood, however, Miss Gourlay.
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