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Sombre, we require your services; the parties are assembled and willing, and the ceremony had better take place." Thomas Corbet had been standing at a front window, and Alley Mahon, on hearing the baronet's words, instantly changed her position to the front of Lucy, as if she intended to make a spring between her and Dunroe, as soon as the matter should come to a crisis. In the meantime Dr.
On advancing into the room, for an instant's time she seemed confused; her confusion, however, soon became surprise amazement, when Dean Palmer, taking our friend the stranger by the hand, led him toward her, exclaiming, "Allow me, Miss Gourlay, to have the honor of presenting to you Lord Dunroe." "Lord Dunroe!" exclaimed Lucy, in her turn, looking aghast with astonishment.
"If I assure you, my lord, that she is not averse to the match nay" and here this false man consoled his conscience by falling back upon the prophecy of Ginty Cooper "if I assure you that she will marry Dunroe willingly nay, with delight, will your lordship then rest satisfied?" "I must depend upon your word, Sir Thomas; am I not in conversation with a gentleman?"
Norton, in deep emotions of gratitude, ably sustained, had already seized the hand of his patron, and was about to reply but the effort was too much for him; his heart was too full; he felt a choking; so, clapping his handkerchief to his face with one hand, and the other upon his heart, he rushed out of the room, lest Dunroe might perceive the incredible force of his affection for him.
"Such an event might be possible," replied Lucy, "were I not unfortunately satisfied that papa is already aware of Dunroe's loose habits of life, which he views only as the giddiness of a young and buoyant spirit that marriage would reform. He says Dunroe is only sowing his wild oats, as, with false indulgence, he is pleased to term it.
What with this effort on the part of Dunroe, and a variety of chat that took place upon the subject of the interruption, at least five-and-twenty minutes had elapsed, and the company began to feel somewhat anxious and impatient, when Sir Thomas Gourlay entered; and, gracious heaven, what a frightful change had taken place in him!
"Faith, Lucy, from honest nature from experience and observation. Is there any man with a third idea, or that has the use of his eyes, who does not know and see that this is the game of life? Dunroe, I dare say, deserves your contempt; report goes, certainly, that he is a profligate; but what ought especially to reconcile him to you is this simple fact that the man's a fool.
You will now know how to appreciate so faithful and honorable a friend." All that Dunroe must have felt, may be easily conceived by the reader. The baronet, however, becomes the foremost figure in the group.
"Oh, be gorra, it's well you ever seen me at all, so it is!" "Why," said his father, "what happened you?" "Oh, bedad, a terrible thing all out. As I was crassin' Dunroe Hill, I thramped on hungry grass. First, I didn't know what kem over me, I got so wake; an' every step I wint, 'twas waker an' waker I was growin', till at long last, down I dhrops, an' couldn't move hand or fut.
"And was that all?" asked Norton, who I began to entertain apprehensions of Morty O'Flaherty; "did he mention nothing else?" "No," replied Dunroe; "and you scoundrel, was not that a d d deal too much?" Norton, now feeling that he was safe from Morty, laughed very heartily, and replied, "It's a fact, sure enough; but then, wasn't it on your lordship's account I bounced?
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