William Reilly, brave and generous young man, goodnight! It matters not who may forget the debt of gratitude which this family owe you--I will not.

No cowardly slanderer shall instil his poisonous calumnies against you into my ear.

My opinion of you is unchanged and unchangeable.

Farewell! William Relly!" We shall not attempt to describe the commotions of love, of happiness, of rapture, which filled Reilly's bosom as he took his departure.

As for _Cooleen Bawn_, she had now passed the Rubicon, and there remained nothing for her but constancy to the truth of her affection, be the result what it might.