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In an instant those who were outside awaiting to pounce upon them in the moment of attack got orders to scour the neighborhood, and if possible to secure the Rapparee at every risk; and as an inducement the squire himself offered to pay the sum of five hundred pounds to any one who should bring him to Corbo Castle, which was the name of his residence.
Fergus Reilly is on the Trail of the Rapparee He Escapes Sir Robert begins to feel Confident of Success. Lanigan, on passing the dining parlor, heard what he conceived to be loud and angry voices inside the room, and as the coast was clear he deliberately put his ear to the key-hole, which ear drank in the following conversation: "I say, Sir Robert, I'll shoot the villain. Do not hold me.
If it was only for the sake of her, that is not here, the Cooleen Bawn, I would do it." "Who goes there?" asked a deep and powerful voice when the parties had come within about twenty yards of each other. "By the powers!" exclaimed Andrew in a whisper, "it's himself the Red Rapparee!" "We are friends," he replied, "and have lost our way."
The Whigs complained that they were ungratefully proscribed by a government which owed its existence to them; that some of the best friends of King William had been dismissed with contumely to make room for some of his worst enemies, for men who were as unworthy of trust as any Irish Rapparee, for men who had delivered up to a tyrant the charter and the immemorial privileges of the City, for men who had made themselves notorious by the cruelty with which they had enforced the penal laws against Protestant dissenters, nay, for men who had sate on those juries which had found Russell and Cornish guilty, The discontent was so great that it seemed, during a short time, likely to cause pecuniary embarrassment to the State.
In the meantime the sheriff had recognized the Rapparee, by a single glance, as the man that had robbed him.
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.
But proceed, Ellen what was the result?" Poor Ellen's eyes filled with tears, and she could scarcely summon composure enough to reply: "Worse than transportation or even death, my dear mistress; oh! far worse guilt and crime. Yes: he that had gained my affections, and gave me his, joined the Red Rapparee and his gang, and became a robber.
"Well, sir," replied Cummiskey, "it's one comfort that he won't hang by himself." "No," said the other, "he and the Rapparee will stretch the same rope." "The Rapparee! faith, sir, hell have worse company." "What do you mean, sirra?" "Why, Sir Robert Whitecraft, sir; he always had gallows written in his face; but, upon my soul, he'll soon have it about his neck, please God."
"But the meantime," replied the Rapparee, "what's to prevent me from putting a bullet into you this moment, if I wish to do it?" "There are ten thousand reasons against it," returned Reilly. "If you did so, in less than twenty-four hours you would find yourself in Sligo jail or, to come nearer the truth, in less than five minutes you would find yourself in hell."
"Aha" exclaimed Tom, "dat Red Rapparee is tall man, but not tall as Tom; him no steeple like Tom; but him rogue and murderer, an' Tom honest; him won't carry off Cooleen Bawn dough, nor rob her fader avder. Come, Tom, Steeple Tom, out with your two legs, one afore toder, and put Rapparee's nose out o' joint. Hicko! hicko! be de bones of Peter White off I go!"
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