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Updated: June 17, 2025


"It musn't be," said they, "for whatever was over him wid Meehaul Neil, we know now he's no coward, an' that's enough. We musn't see him beat dead before our eyes, at all events, where is he?" "He's at his aunt's," replied the father; "undher this roof he says he will never come till his name is cleared. Heavens above! For him to think of fighting a man that kills every one he fights wid!"

Their relative positions were too well known not to excite an interest corresponding with the characters they had borne, as the leaders of two bitter and powerful factions: but when it became certain that Meehaul Neil had struck Lamh Laudher Oge, and that the latter refused to fight him, it is impossible to describe the sensation which immediately spread through the town and parish.

The young fellow that no man could stand afore five minutes!" "That is," replied others, "bekase he never met a man that would fight him. You see when he did, how he has turned out. One thing any how is clear enough after this he can never rise his head while he lives." Meehaul now directed his steps homewards, literally stunned by the unexpected cowardice of his enemy.

"Ghe dhevin, Nelly," said the waiter, "maybe Meehaul is in the house unknownst to me. I'll try, any how, an' if he's to the fore, it won't be my fault or he'll see you." Nell, while the waiter went to inform Meehaul, took two ribbons out of her pocket, one white and the other black, both of which she folded into what would appear to a bystander to be a simple kind of knot.

"Ay! but I won't suppose that, till you lay your right hand on your heart, and declare as an honest man, that tut, man this is nonsense. Meehaul, go home I would rather there was friendship between us." "You were with Ellen, this night in the! Grassy Quarry." "Are you sure of that?" "I saw you both I watched you both; you left her beyond the Pedlar's Cairn, an' you're now on your way home."

"Somebody has been making a fool of you, Nell," replied Meehaul; "he had neither fire-arms, nor staff, nor any thing else; an' for my part, I might as well have left mine at home." "Well, but, douol, man, what was done? Did you smash him? Did you break his bones?" "None of that, Nell, but worse; he's disgraced for ever. I struck him, an' he refused to fight me; he hadn't a hand to raise. "No!

Every one pitied him, praised him, remembered his former prowess, and after finding some palliative for his degrading interview with Meehaul Neil, concluded with expressing a firm conviction that he had undertaken a fatal task.

"An' the more mane you, Meehaul, to become a spy upon a girl that you know is as pure as the light from heaven. You ought to blush for doubtin' sich a sister, or thinkin' it your duty to watch her as you do." "Lamh Laudher, you say that you'd rather there was no ill-will between us." "I say that, God knows, from my heart out." "Then there's one way that it may be so.

When we say, however, that Lamh Laudher was the head of his party, we beg to be understood as alluding only to his personal courage and prowess; for there were in it men of far greater wealth and of higher respectability, so far as mere wealth could confer the latter. "Lamh Laudher," said Meehaul, "whenever a Neil spakes to you, you may know it's hot in friendship."

Meehaul Neil paused and looked after him, equally struck with surprise and contempt at his apparent want of spirit. "Well," he exclaimed to those who stood about him, "by the life within me, if all the parish had sworn that Lamh Laudher Oge was a coward, I'd not a b'lieved them!" "Faix, Misther Neil, who would, no more, than yourself?" they replied; "devil the likes of it ever we seen!

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