Go on--I bid you." "I say, then, sir, that if Reilly were either hanged or out of the country, the consciousness of this would soon alter matters with Miss Folliard.

If you, then, sir, will enter into an agreement with me, I shall undertake so to make the laws bear upon Reilly as to rid either the world or the country of him; and you shall promise not to press upon your daughter the subject of her marriage with me until then.

Still, there is one thing you must do; and that is, to keep her under the strictest surveillance." "What the devil's that ?" said the squire.
"It means," returned his expected son-in-law, "that she must be well watched, but without feeling that she is so." "Would it not be better to lock her up at once ?" said her father.

"That would be making the matter sure." "Not at all," replied Whitecraft.

"So sure as you lock her up, so sure she will break prison." "Well, upon my soul," replied her father.