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Willy Reilly

CHAPTER XV
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Now, what kind of a young lady must she be as requires watching?
I was never watched; because as how I was well conducted, and nothing could ever be laid to my charge but a love-child." "By the great Boyne," he exclaimed, running to the window and throwing up the sash--"yes, by the great Boyne, there is Tom Steeple, and if he doesn't bring you and the pump acquainted, I'm rather mistaken.

Here, Tom, I have a job for you.

Do you wish to earn a bully dinner, my boy ?" Miss Herbert, on hearing Tom's name mentioned, disappeared like lightning, and set about packing her things immediately.

The steward, by his master's desire, paid her exactly what was due to her, which she received without making a single observation.

In truth, she entertained such a terror of Tom Steeple, who had been pointed out to her as a wild Irishman, not long caught in the mountains, that she stole out by the back way, and came, by making a circuit, out upon the road that led to Sir Robert Whitecraft's house, which she passed without entering, but went directly to Mary Malion's, who had provided a nurse for her illegitimate child in the neighborhood.


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