But, indeed, father, it's not of him I'm thinkin', but on the darlin' girl that's on the brink of destruction, and what I know she's sufferin'." "I wondher where Reilly is," said her mother.

"My goodness! sure he ought to make a push, and take her off at wanst.

I dunna is he in the country at all?
What do you think, Ellen ?" "Indeed, mother," she replied, "very few, I believe, knows any thing about him.

All I'm afraid of is, that, wherever he may be, he'll hardly escape discovery." "Well," said her father, "I'll tell you what we'll do.

Let us kneel down and offer up ten pathers, ten aves, and a creed, that the Lord may protect them both from their enemies, and grant them a happy marriage, in spite of laws, parliaments, magistrates, spies, persecutors and priest-hunters, and, as our hands are in, let us offer up a few that God may confound that villain, Whitecraft, and bring him snugly to the gallows." This was immediately complied with, in a spirit of earnestness surpassing probably what they might have felt had they been praying for their own salvation.