I myself am a good Protestant--show me the man that will deny that, and I'll become his schoolmaster only for five minutes.

I do say, and I'll tell it to Sir Robert's face, that there's something wrong somewhere.

Give me a Papish that breaks the law, let him be priest or layman, and I'm the boy that will take a grip of him if I can get him.

But, confound me, if I like to be sent out to hunt innocent, inoffensive Papishes, who commit no crime except that of having property that chaps like Sir Robert have their eye on.

Now suppose the Papishes had the upper hand, and that they treated us so, what would you say ?" "All I can say is," replied another of them, "that I'd wish to get the reward." "Curse the reward," said Johnston, "I like fair play." "But how did Sir Robert come to know ?" asked another, "that Reilly was with the parson' ?" "Who the deuce here can tell that ?" replied several.
"The thing was a hoax," said Johnston, "and a cursed uncomfortable one for us.