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'My dear Fanny, continued my mother, 'in sober seriousness you have been most fortunate in engaging the affections of a nobleman such as Lord Glenfallen, young and wealthy, with first-rate yes, acknowledged FIRST-RATE abilities, and of a family whose influence is not exceeded by that of any in Ireland. Of course you see the offer in the same light that I do indeed I think you MUST.
"You must not, my love," said Lord Glenfallen, "imagine this place worse than it is. I have no taste for antiquity, at least I should not choose a house to reside in because it is old.
About a week after the execution had taken place, Lord Glenfallen one morning met me with an unusually sprightly air "Fanny," said he, "I have it now for the first time, in my power to explain to your satisfaction every thing which has hitherto appeared suspicious or mysterious in my conduct. After breakfast come with me to my study, and I shall, I hope, make all things clear."
As to remaining at Cahergillagh in solitude, and for aught I knew, exposed to hidden dangers, it appeared to me scarcely less objectionable than the former proposition; and yet I feared that with one or other I must comply, unless I was prepared to come to an actual breach with Lord Glenfallen; full of these unpleasing doubts and perplexities, I retired to rest.
'You must not, my love, said Lord Glenfallen, 'imagine this place worse than it is. I have no taste for antiquity at least I should not choose a house to reside in because it is old.
The assizes arrived, however, and upon the day appointed, Lord Glenfallen and I attended in order to give our evidence. The cause was called on, and the prisoner appeared at the bar. Great curiosity and interest were felt respecting the trial, so that the court was crowded to excess.
All attempts on my part to arrive at the truth were baffled; Lord Glenfallen evaded all my inquiries, and at length peremptorily forbid any further allusion to the matter. I was thus obliged to rest satisfied with what I had actually seen, and to trust to time to resolve the perplexities in which the whole transaction had involved me.
On being asked her name, she called herself the Countess Glenfallen, and refused to give any other title. 'The woman's name is Flora Van-Kemp, said Lord Glenfallen. 'It WAS, it WAS, you perjured traitor and cheat! screamed the woman; and then there followed a volley of words in some foreign language.
'There lies the enchanted castle, said Lord Glenfallen, pointing towards a considerable level space intervening between two of the picturesque hills, which rose dimly around the lake.
"Hardress, Earl of Glenfallen, I accuse you here in this court of justice of two crimes first, that you married a second wife, while the first was living, and again, that you prompted me to the murder, for attempting which I am to die secure him chain him bring him here."
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