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"Miss Folliard," said the judge, in a most respectful voice, "you are deeply veiled but perhaps you are not aware that, in order to give evidence in a court of justice, your veil should be up; will you have the goodness to raise it?"
Folliard, for the purpose of creating an opportunity to make your acquaintance, and of ingratiating himself into the good graces and affections of your lovely daughter; a plot for the purpose of marrying her." The Squire seemed for a moment thunderstruck, but in a little time he recovered. "Marrying her!" he exclaimed; "that, you know, could not be done, unless he turned Protestant."
"Well, now, Mr. Folliard, you have taken a load off my heart; and I will candidly confess to you that I have had my frailties like other men, sown my wild oats like other men; but, unlike those who are not ashamed to boast of such exploits, I did not think it necessary to trumpet my own feelings. I do not say, my dear friend, that I have always been a saint."
Until the morning of the day on which the two rivals were to meet, Miss Folliard began to entertain a dreadful apprehension that the fright into which the Red Rapparee had thrown her father was likely to terminate, ere long, in insanity.
He then desired the other female servants to ascertain whether Miss Folliard was within or not, giving it as his opinion that she had eloped with Willy Reilly. The uproar then commenced, the house was searched, but no Cooleen Bawn was found.
"I did not think that so short an acquaintance could have Oh, I know not what to say nor how to act. My father's prejudices. You are a Catholic." "And will die one, Miss Folliard." "But why should you be unhappy? You do not deserve to be so." "That is precisely what made me ask you just now if you believed in fate." "Oh, I know not.
"Oh, Miss Folliard," he replied, "your will is the spirit of the British Constitution to me." "A spirit which, I fear, you have too frequently violated, Sir Robert; but, as papa says, I believe your cruel occupation is gone at least I hope so." "'Gad, you got it there, Sir Robert," replied her father, laughing.
"Did your father give his consent to that attachment?" "Conditionally he did." "And pray, Miss Folliard, what were the conditions?" "That Reilly should abjure his creed, and then no further obstacles should stand in the way of our union, he said." "Was ever that proposal mentioned to Reilly?"
Either that, Lanigan, or I should go mad; for do you know, Lanigan, that there is insanity in our family, by my father's side?" "Unfortunately I know it, Miss Folliard; your uncle died in a mad-house, and it was in that way the estate came to your father. But remember what you say Mr.
The first witness produced was the sheriff and, indeed, to state the truth, a very reluctant one was that humane gentleman on the occasion. Having been sworn, the leading counsel proceeded: "You are the sheriff of this county?" "I am." "Are you aware that jewellery to a large amount was stolen recently from Mr. Folliard?" "I am not." "You are not?
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