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Willy Reilly

CHAPTER V
19/27

I see a man of wealth and title who will just come in in time to save you from shame and destruction, and with him you will be happy." "I could prove to you," replied the _Cooleen Dawn_, her face mantling with blushes of indignation, "that I am a better prophetess than you are.

Ask her, papa, where she last came from." "Where did you come from last, Molly ?" he asked.
"Why, then," she replied, "from Jemmy Hamilton's at the foot of Cullaniore." "False prophetess," replied the _Cooleen Bawn_, "you have told an untruth.

I know where you came from last." "Then where did I come from, Miss Folliard ?" said the woman, with unexpected effrontery.
"From Sir Robert Whitecraft," replied Miss Folliard, "and the wages of your dishonesty and his corruption are the sources of your inspiration.
Take the woman away, papa." "That will do, Molly--that will do," exclaimed the squire, "there is something' additional for you.

What you have told us is very odd--very odd, indeed.

Go and get your dinner in the kitchen." Miss Folliard then withdrew to her own room.
Between eleven and twelve o'clock that night a carriage drew up at the grand entrance of Corbo Castle, out of which stepped Sir Robert Whitecraft and no less a personage than the Red Rapparee.


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