[Willy Reilly by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookWilly Reilly CHAPTER IV 16/25
Nay, indeed, it was partially attacked, but when the villainy found us prepared they decamped; but, as for marriage, he could not marry my daughter, I say again, so long as he remains a Papist." "Unless he might prevail on her to turn Papist." "By the life of my body, Sir Robert, I won't stand this.
Did you come here, sir, to insult me and to drive me into madness? What devil could have put it into your head that my daughter, sir, or any one with a drop of my blood in their veins, to the tenth generation, could ever, for a single moment, think of turning Papist? Sir, I hoped that you would have respected the name both of my daughter and myself, and have foreborne to add this double insult both to her and me.
The insolence even to dream of imputing such an act to her I cannot overlook.
You yourself, if you could gain a point or feather your nest by it, are a thousand times much more likely to turn Papist than either of us.
Apologize instantly, sir, or leave my house." "I can certainly apologize, Mr.Folliard," replied the baronet, "and with a good conscience, inasmuch as I had not the most remote intention of offending you, much less Miss Folliard--I accordingly do so promptly and at once; but as for my allegations against Reilly, I am in a position to establish their truth in the clearest manner, and to prove to you that there wasn't a.
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