That was a hard thing upon young Devlin in Murray's murdher.

I'm not sure whether you do, but I know that that act was put upon him through ill-will; and now he'll hang for it.

But sure it's one comfort that he'll die a martyr, glory be to God!" The pedlar, having assented to this, got on his pack, and leaving Mogue to meditate on the new discovery which he had made respecting Julia Purcel, he proceeded on towards the highway to which we have alluded.
Purcel himself, in the course of a few miles' drive, reached the parsonage, in which the Rev.Jeremiah Turbot ought to have lived, but in which, for several years past, he had not resided; if we except about a fortnight twice a year, when he came to sweep off as weighty a load of tithes as he could contrive to squeeze out of the people through worthy Mat Purcel, his proctor.
For a year or two previous to this visit, there is no doubt but the aspect of ecclesiastical affairs was gradually getting worse.

Turbot began to feel that there was something wrong, although he could not exactly say what it was.

Purcel, however, was by no means reluctant to disclose to him the exceedingly desperate state to which not only had matters been driving, but at which they had actually arrived.