[Willy Reilly by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookWilly Reilly CHAPTER XXI 20/46
Zounds, I don't see why I shouldn't burn a house as well as Whitecraft.
That cursed baronet is getting ahead of me, but I think I am entitled to a bonfire as well as he is.
Shall we burn the house ?" he added, addressing his men. "I think you had better not, captain," replied the principal of them; "recollect there are new regulations now.
It wouldn't be safe, and might only end in hanging every man of us--yourself among the rest." "But why doesn't the old rebel produce the priest ?" asked their leader. "Come here, sirra--hear me--produce that lurking priest immediately." "I don't exactly understand you, captain," replied the old man, who appeared to know Smellpriest right well.
"I don't think it's to my house you should come to look for a priest." "Why not, you villain? I have been directed here, and told that I would find my game under your roof." "In the first place," replied the old man, with a firm and intrepid voice, "I am no villain; and in the next, I say, that if any man directed you to this house in quest of a priest, he must have purposely sent you upon a fool's errand.
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