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Updated: May 26, 2025
"What, you villain! do you contradict me? do you bandy words and looks with me?" asked the baronet, his rage deepening at Trailcudgel's audacity in having replied at all. "Villain!" returned his gigantic tenant, in a voice of thunder.
"Sir gintleman miss, over the way there for throth, for all so close as you're veiled, you haven't a married look but as I was sayin', we fell in love wid one another by mistake for there was an ould matchmaker, by name Biddlety Girtha, a daughter of ould Jemmy Trailcudgel's God be good to him father of the present strugglin' poor man of that name and as I had hard of a celebrated beauty that lived about twelve or fifteen miles down the country that I wished to coort and she, on the other hand, having hard of a very fine, handsome young fellow in my own neighborhood what does the ould thief do but brings us together, in the fair of Baltihorum, and palms her off on me as the celebrated beauty, and palms myself on her as the fine, handsome young fellow from the parish of Ballytrain, and, as I said, so we fell in love wid one another by mistake, and didn't discover the imposthure that the ould vagabond had put on us until afther the marriage.
The stranger, besides, was satisfied from the evidence of the pound note, and Trailcudgel's robbery, that his recent disappearance was also owing to the same influence. Still, the evidence was far from being complete, and they knew that if Fenton even were found, it would be necessary to establish his identity as the heir of Sir Edward Gourlay.
Our readers may remember, with reference to the robbery of the baronet, the fact of Trailcudgel's having met the stranger on his way to disclose all the circumstances to the priest, and that he did not proceed farther on that occasion, having understood that Father M'Mahon was from home.
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