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If it's Tom's affair, the state of your property comes first." "No, my lord, I shall leave all dealings of business between you and my mother. This is a different affair, and one on which I wish to have your lordship's advice and direction." "Ay, but what is it? Confound it, come to the point." "It is a tory-hunt, my lord." "Who is the tory, or who are the tories? Come, I'm at home here.
"I have; and he imposed it on me as a condition that I should mention to you an enterprise on which I am bent." "An enterprise! Pray, what is it?" "Why, a tory-hunt; I am going to hunt down Shawn-na-Middogue, as he is called, and I think it will be rendering the country a service to get rid of him." Miss Riddle's face got pale as ashes; and she looked earnestly and solemnly into Woodward's face.
The country was of intricate passage and full of thick woods. At this distance of time, now that it is cleared and cultivated, our readers could form no conception of its appearance then. In the fastnesses and close brakes of those woods lay the hiding-places and retreats of the tories "the wood kernes" of Spenser's day. A tory-hunt at that time, or at any time, was a pastime of no common, danger.
The sheriff and the posse comitatas, together with assistance from other quarters, had all been engaged; and as some vague intelligence of Shawn-na-Midoque's retreat had been obtained, Woodward proceeded in complete disguise before daybreak with a party, not one of whom was able to recognize him, well armed, to have what was, in those days, called a tory-hunt.
You have heard of the toir, or tory-hunt, which was made after me and others; but chiefly after me, for I was the object they wanted to shoot down, or rather that he, the villain, wanted to murder under the authority of those cruel laws that make us tories." "Who do you mean by he?" asked Miss Riddle. "I mean Harry Woodward," he replied. "He hunted me, disguised by a black mask."
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