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"It's folly entirely, you should be telling her!" James McMurrough replied, curtly and roughly. Intercourse with Payton had not left him in the best of tempers. "To-morrow at sunset, and not an hour earlier, he'll be visited. And then it'll be you, Flavvy, that'll speak to him! What more is it you're wanting?" "I speak to him?" she cried. "I couldn't!"
"Just to endure," he said sadly, "till better times. Or what if we make things worse? Believe me, Flavvy, the last rising " "Rising!" she cried. "Rising! Why do you call it that? It was no rising! It was the English who rose, and we who remained faithful to our king. It was they who betrayed, and we who paid the penalty for treason! Rising!"
"So there you have it, Flavvy!" James cried complacently. "And sure, you'll not be making a fool of yourself at this time of day!" She stood as one stunned; looking at him with strange eyes, thinking, not answering. Asgill, and Asgill only, saw a burning blush dye for an instant the whiteness of her face.
Ay, I say it, though you're listening, Asgill. It's more than blood can stand!" "No one is more sorry than myself," Asgill replied, with a look of concern. "I don't make the laws, or they'd be other than they are!" "True for you," Uncle Ulick answered. "I'm allowing that. And it is true, too, that to make a stir too early would ruin all. I'm afraid you must be making the best of it, Flavvy!
"That would not suit us at all," he said. "Not at all! We could do that for ourselves. Faith," with a sudden laugh, "you didn't lack much of doing it, Flavvy! No; but a stone box and a ring round his leg, and four walls to talk to until such time as we have a use for him, would be mighty convenient for everybody.
Presently, "Flavvy," he said in a low tone, "I've a notion, my girl. And it'll serve, I'm thinking. This can't be lasting." She looked at him without much hope. "Well?" she said coldly. She had begun to find him out. He looked at her cunningly. "We might put the boot on the other leg," he said. "He's for informing. But what if we inform, my girl? It's the first in the field that's believed.
"So do you be taking a lesson, Miss Flavvy," the young Hector continued, "and don't you go threatening honest folk with your whip, or it'll be about your own shoulders it'll fall! I know what's going on, and when I want your help, I'll ask it." The girl's lip trembled. "But it's robbery, James," she murmured. "To the devil with your robbery!" he retorted, casting a defiant eye round the table.
"Because he's a silly fool, as I'm thinking some others are, and has a fancy for you, Flavvy! Faith, you're not blind!" he continued, forgetting that he had only learned the fact from Asgill a few days before, and that it was news to the younger men "and know it, I'll be sworn, as well as I do!
"Well, isn't he master for the time, bad luck to him! And if he thinks we're beginning to draw the boys together, he'll maybe put his foot down! And I'd rather be stopping it myself, I'm telling you, and it's the truth, too, just for a week or two, Flavvy, than be bidden by him." "Never!" she cried. "But " "Never! Never! Never!" she repeated firmly. "Let us turn our back on our king by all means!
Once or twice, feeling the humiliation more than she could bear, she declared to her brother that the man must go. "Let him go!" she cried, in uncontrollable excitement. "Let him go!" "But he will not be going, Flavvy." "He must go!" she replied. "And Morristown his?" James would answer. "Ye are forgetting! Over and above that, he's not one to do my bidding, nor yours!" That was true.
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