Perhaps you will find, when it is too late, that she is the more spellbound of the two.

If I don't mistake, the spell begins to work already.

In the meantime, as Miss Folliard will have it, I withdraw all claims upon her hand and affections.

Good-night, sir;" and as he spoke he took his departure.
For a long time the old man sat looking into the fire, where he began gradually to picture to himself strange forms and objects in the glowing embers, one of whom he thought resembled the Red Rapparee about to shoot him; another, Willy Reilly making love to his daughter; and behind all, a high gallows, on which he beheld the said Reilly hanging for his crime.
In about an hour afterwards Miss Folliard returned to the drawing-room, where she found her father asleep in his arm-chair.

Having awakened him gently from what appeared a disturbed dream, he looked about him, and, forgetting for a moment all that had happened, inquired in his usual eager manner where Reilly and Whitecraft were, and if they had gone.