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Barry Lyndon

CHAPTER III
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Indeed, when he saw that a stranger accompanied her, he embraced her more rapturously than ever.
In introducing me, she persisted in saying that I was her preserver, and complimented my gallantry as much as if I had killed Freny, instead of coming up when the robbery was over.

The Captain said he knew the Redmonds of Waterford intimately well: which assertion alarmed me, as I knew nothing of the family to which I was stated to belong.

But I posed him, by asking WHICH of the Redmonds he knew, for I had never heard his name in our family.

He said he knew the Redmonds of Redmondstown.

'Oh,' says I, 'mine are the Redmonds of Castle Redmond;' and so I put him off the scent.


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