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Willy Reilly

CHAPTER XXI
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Now begone, and leave me, or, upon my honor, I will push you out of the room.

Have I not consented to all your terms.

Let Sir Robert come tomorrow and he shall call me his wife before the sun reaches his meridian.

Now, leave me; leave me, I say." In this uncertain state her father found himself compelled to retire to the drawing-room, where Sir Robert and he met.
"Mr.Folliard," said the baronet, "is this true ?" "Is what true, Sir Robert ?" said he sharply.
"Why, that Reilly and the Red Rapparee are both in Sligo jail ?" "It is true, Sir Robert; and it must be a cursed thing to be in jail for a capital crime." "Are you becoming penitent," asked the other, "for bringing the laws of the land to bear upon the villain that would have disgraced, and might have ruined, your only daughter ?" The father's heart was stung by the diabolical pungency of this question.
"Sir Robert," said he, "we will hang him if it was only to get the villain out of the way; and if you will be here to-morrow at ten o'clock, the marriage must take place.

I'll suffer no further nonsense about it; but, mark me, after the honeymoon shall have passed, you and she must come and reside here; to think that I could live without her is impossible.


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