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"Now, you drunken old scoundrel," said his master, catching him by the collar and flourishing the cane over his head, "if you don't give a direct answer I will cane you within an inch of your life. What do you mean when you say that Sir Robert Whitecraft won't come here to-day?" "Becaise, sir, it isn't convanient to him." "Why isn't it convenient, you scoundrel?"
But as this fact is not at all an improbable one so long as Whitecraft is my unscrupulous and relentless enemy I shall seize upon the first opportunity of placing them elsewhere." "You ought to do so," said Fergus, "for it is not merely Whitecraft you have to deal wid, but ould Folliard himself, who now swears that if he should lose half his fortune he will either hang or transport you." "Ah!
After his return they were admitted to an audience, in which they stated their object in waiting upon him, and urged with great earnestness the necessity of arresting the fate of such a distinguished Protestant as Sir Robert Whitecraft; after which they entered into a long statement of the necessity that existed for such active and energetic men in the then peculiar and dangerous state of the country.
He had therefore made up his mind to watch the motions of Cooleen Bawn, and he would have included Reilly in his surveillance were it not that Lanigan informed him of what he termed the mysterious disappearance of the under-gardener. "What!" exclaimed Whitecraft, "is he gone?" "He has gone, Sir Robert, and he left his week's wages behind him, for he never came to the steward to ask it.
Life, they say, is a life of trials, and so may it be said of this tale at least of the conclusion of it; for we feel that it devolves upon us once more to solicit the presence of our readers to the same prison in which the Red Rapparee and Sir Robert Whitecraft received their sentence of doom.
So far our description is correct; but when such a knave as Sir Robert Whitecraft came in his way a knave at once calculating, deceitful, plausible, and cunning why, our worthy old squire, who thought himself a second Solomon, might be taken by the nose and led round the whole barony.
"The shot is mine," said Julian; "and if mine host will share it, I will willingly bestow another quart on him, and on you, sir. I never break old customs." These sounds caught the ear of Gaffer Whitecraft, who had entered the room, a strapping specimen of his robust trade, prepared to play the civil, or the surly host, as his company should be acceptable or otherwise.
I'm glad you've got yourself from among these cruel and unconscionable Rapparees I'm glad you're free; but I tell you that if you had the wealth of Squire Folliard ay, or of Whitecraft himself, which they say is still greater, I wouldn't become your wife so long as she's in the state she's in." "That's strong language, Ellen, and I am sorry to hear it from you.
Hastings took much part in the conversation; but the eye of the latter was, during the greater portion of the evening, fixed upon the baronet, like that of a basilisk, accompanied by a hidden meaning, which it was impossible to penetrate, but which, nevertheless, had such an effect upon Whitecraft that he could not help observing it. "It would seem, Mr.
"What the devil's that?" said the squire. "It means," returned his expected son-in-law, "that she must be well watched, but without feeling that she is so." "Would it not be better to lock her up at once?" said her father. "That would be making the matter sure." "Not at all," replied Whitecraft. "So sure as you lock her up, so sure she will break prison." "Well, upon my soul," replied her father.
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