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Furlong took advantage of the opportunity of her back being turned, and rushed at the bell, which he pulled with great fury. The dowager wheeled round with haste. "So you have rung," said she, "but it shall not avail you the door is locked; take your weapon, sir, quick! what! a coward!" "Weally, Mistwess O'Gwady, I cannot think of deadly arbitrament with a lady."
Furlong opened his eyes wider than ever, and thought this the queerest bit of madness he ever heard of; however, thinking it best to humour her, he answered, "Yes, it was a little awkwa'dness of mine I upset the inkstand the othe' day." "Do you mock me, sir?" said she, with increasing bitterness. "La, no! Mistwess O'Gwady."
"I have come, I say, to wash out in your blood the stain you have dared to put on the name of O'Grady." Furlong gasped with mingled amazement and fear. "Tremble, villain!" she said; and she pointed toward him her long attenuated finger with portentous solemnity. "I weally am quite at a loss, Mistwess O'Gwady, to compwehend "
She stalked up towards him, something in the style of a spectre in a romance, which she was not very unlike; and as she advanced, he retreated, until he got the table between him and this most unwelcome apparition. "I am come," said the dowager, with an ominous tone of voice. "Vewy happy of the hono', I am sure, Mistwess O'Gwady," faltered Furlong. "The avenger has come." Furlong opened his eyes.
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