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Updated: June 5, 2025
'He's going to throw the old man over, cried several of those beneath, and amidst the tumult of voices, a number soon rushed up the stairs and out on the balcony, where the old fellow was clinging to O'Shea's legs in his despairing attempt to save himself.
As the sounds continued and the full strangeness of the event, in that lonely place, entered his waking brain, he arose with a certain trepidation akin to that which one feels at the thought of supernatural visitors, a feeling that was perhaps the result of some influence from the spirit of the man outside the door; for when he opened it, and held his candle to O'Shea's face, he saw a look there that made him know certainly that something was wrong.
'No; for "O'Shea's Barn." Miss Betty has taken him. She came here to-day to "have it out" with papa, as she said; and she has kept her word. Indeed, not alone with him, but with all of us even Nina did not escape. 'Insufferable old woman. What did she dare to say to Nina? 'She got off the cheapest of us all, Dick, said she, laughing.
This is it, and these are the words: "If Kate will be your wife, the estate of O'Shea's Barn is your own for ever." 'Is she to have no time to think over this offer? asked she. 'Would you like candles, miss? asked a maid-servant, of whose presence there neither of the others had been aware.
He was perfectly at home there, and dull as his eye looked, he tacitly assumed command. He took O'Shea's pole from him, stepped to the prow, and began to turn the boat, without regarding the fact that O'Shea was still holding hasty conversation with the men on the schooner concerning the public events of the winter months the news they had brought from the mainland.
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