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"Will you allow me to ask, sir, whether Miss Folliard is aware of this mission of yours to me?" "She aware! She never dreamt of it; but I have promised to tell her the result after dinner to-day." "Well, sir," replied Reilly, "will you allow me to state to you a few facts?" "Certainly; go on."
"I do not!" "You do not? What did he say when the jewels were found upon him?" "He refused to surrender them to Mr. Folliard as having no legal claim upon them, and refused, at first, to place them in any hands but Miss Folliard's own; but, on understanding that she was not in a state to receive them from him, he placed them in mine."
He told the jury that they could not convict the prisoner on the imputed felony of the jewels; but that the proof of his having taken away Miss Folliard from her father's house, with as the law stood her felonious abduction, for the purpose of inveigling her into an unlawful marriage with himself, was the subject for their consideration.
Drum. "Oh! the infernal villain," said the baronet, "all the protections that ever were or could be issued from the Secretary's office would not nor could not save him. Old Folliard and I will hang him, if there was not another man to be hanged in the three kingdoms."
Folliard," she continued, "I could introduce a young lady who is so fond of you, old and ugly as you are, that she would not hesitate to kiss you tenderly, and cry with delight on your bosom you old thief." They both started at her words with amazement, and her husband said: "Egad, Alick, Helen's malady seems catching. What the deuce do you mean, Molly? or must I, too, send for a doctor?"
She accordingly went down to the hall, where they were hanging up their great coats and hats, and brought them into her husband's study. "Mr. Folliard," said she with a cheerful face, "I think, from some symptoms of improvement noticed to-day in Helen, that we needn't be without hope."
"And a ward in the Court of Chancery?" "Yes." "That will do, sir." The squire was then about to leave the table, when Mr. Fox addressed him: "Not yet, Mr. Folliard, if you please; you swear the jewels are yours?" "I do; to whom else should they belong?" "Are you of opinion that the prisoner at the bar robbed you of them?" "I found them in his possession."
"Too sure, ma'am too sure; my father had it in private from his own lips, for, as the poor boy said, he hadn't the courage himsell to tell me." "But, Ellen," asked Miss Folliard, "where had you an opportunity of seeing and becoming acquainted with this young man? You surely could not have known him, or conceived an attachment for him, previous to your coming to reside with us?"
"Frighten me!" replied the courageous old squire; "no, sir, I am not a man very easily frightened; but I will confess that the sight of you has sickened me and filled me with horror." "Well, now, Mr. Folliard," said the baronet, "let this matter, this misunderstanding, this mistake, or rather this deep and diabolical plot on the part of the Jesuit, Reilly, be at once cleared up.
"I will be candid, and tell you, Miss Folliard. I know that what I am about to say will offend you it was by making me acquainted with his daughter, and by bringing me under the influence of beauty which has unmanned distracted me beauty which I could not resist which has overcome me subdued me and which, because it is beyond my reach and my deserts, will occasion me an unhappy life how long soever that life my last."
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