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He was between two stools, for he had no mind to displease Flavia or thwart her brother. At length, "No," he said, "I'll not be doing anything in The McMurrough's absence no, I don't see that I can do that!" Colonel John looked in the same strange fashion at Flavia. "I have legal power to act, sir," he said, "as I can prove to you in private.
And no marriage for your sister but with his good will. And if Morristown stood as far east of Tralee as it stands west glory be to God for it! I'm thinking he'd say that word, and there'd be no penny for you, and no marriage for her, but you'd both be hat in hand to him!" McMurrough's face showed a shade paler through the dusk. "What would you have me do?" he muttered.
And so d'you see, my lad, if she's in this, 'twill do more take my word for it that know to break him down and draw the heart out of him, so that he'll care little one way or the other, than anything you can do yourself!" James McMurrough's face, turned upwards to the rider, reflected his admiration.
"Because but there, you wouldn't understand you wouldn't understand! Still, if you must be knowing, there's ways of winning would be worse than losing!" The McMurrough's confidence began to return. "You're grown scrupulous," he sneered, half in jest, half in earnest. Asgill's answer flung him down again. "You may thank your God I am!" he replied, with a look that scorched the other.
"Yes, James, there is a limit!" a voice struck in a voice as angry as The McMurrough's, but vibrating to a purer note of passion; so that the indignation which it expressed seemed to raise the opposition to Colonel John's action to a higher plane. "There is a limit, Colonel Sullivan!"
In the meantime I beg to suggest" again he raised the handkerchief to his cheek and staunched the blood "that you retire now, and hear what The McMurrough has to say to you: the more as the cases and the arms I see in the courtyard lie obnoxious to discovery and expose all to risk while they remain so." His surprising coolness did more to check them than The McMurrough's efforts.
O'Sullivan Og himself he believed to be The McMurrough's agent in his more lawless business; a fierce, unscrupulous man, prospering on his lack of scruple.
"And easy to speak them, when you and your d d Protestant Whigs are on top!" "We won't talk of Protestants, d d or otherwise!" Colonel John replied. And for the first time his glance, keen as the flicker of steel, crossed The McMurrough's. The younger man's eyes fell.
The courage of the Irish is more conspicuous in the advance than in the retreat; and even of that recklessness in fight, that joy in the conflict, which is their birthright and their fame, Flavia had taken more than her woman's share. In James McMurrough's mean and narrow nature there was small room for the generous passions.
And, for a second objection, the two could not, so closely were they guarded, communicate with each other in such a way as to secure joint action. After all, The McMurrough's plan might amount to no more than their detention in some secret place among the hills. Colonel John hoped so. Yet he could not persuade himself that this was the worst that was intended.
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