[The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector CHAPTER XII 15/24
You forgot or dissembled your scorn and resentment against her, when you thought you could make a catch of her property: a very candid and disinterested proceeding on your part, Well, what's the consequence? That's all knocked up; the girl won't have him, because she is attached to his brother, and because his brother is attached to her.
Now that is just as it ought to be, and, please God, we'll have them married.
And I now I take the liberty of asking you both to the wedding." "Lindsay, you're an offensive old dog, sir." "I might retort the compliment by changing the sex, my dear," he replied, laughing! and nodding at her, with a face, from the nose down, rather benevolent than otherwise, but still the knit was between the brows. "Lindsay, you're an unmanly villain, and a coward to boot, or you wouldn't use such language to a woman." "Not to a woman; but I'm sometimes forced to do so to a termagant." "What's the cause of all this ?" inquired Woodward; "upon my honor, the language I hear is very surprising, as coming from a justice of quorum and his lady.
Fie! fie! I am ashamed of you both.
In what did it originate ?" "Why, the fact is, Harry, she has told us that Alice Goodwin, in the most decided manner, has rejected your addresses, and confided to you an avowal of her attachment to Charles here.
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