Good-by, Mr.Reilly; if you take a friend's advice you'll give her up; think no more of her.

It may cost you an aching heart to do so, but by doin' it you may save her from a great deal of sorrow, and both of you from a long and heavy term of suffering." Reilly, though a young man of strong reason in the ordinary affairs of life, and of a highly cultivated intellect besides, yet felt himself influenced by the gloomy forebodings of this notorious woman.

It is true he saw, by the force of his own sagacity, that she had uttered nothing which any person acquainted with the relative position of himself and _Cooleen Bawn_, and the political circumstances of the country, might not have inferred as a natural and probable consequence.

In fact he had, on his way home, arrived at nearly the same conclusion.

Marriage, as the laws of the country then stood, was out of the question, and could not be legitimately effected.