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Willy Reilly

CHAPTER V
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You and I must speak angry to one another, you know; then, of course, I must see him home, and he can't do less than ask me to dine with him.

At all events, thinkin' that I saved his life, we will become acquainted.'" The squire paused and mused for some time, and then asked, "Was there no more than this between you and him ?" "Nothing more, sir." "And tell me, did he pay you the money ?" "Here it is," replied the Rapparee, pulling out a rag in which were the precise number of guineas mentioned.
"But," said the squire, "we lost our way in the fog." "Yes, sir," said the Rapparee.

"Everything turned out in his favor.

That made very little difference.

You would have been attacked in or about that place, whether or not." "Yes, but did you not attack my house that night?
Did not you yourself come down by the skylight, and enter, by violence, into my daughter's apartment ?" "Well, when I heard of that, sir, I said, 'I give Reilly up for ingenuity.' No, sir, that was his own trick; but afther all it was a bad one, and tells aginst itself.


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