[The Emigrants Of Ahadarra by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Emigrants Of Ahadarra CHAPTER XX 8/18
I will see her tomorrow and explain all to her.
Father," he added, "will you ask Dora if she will walk with me to the Long-shot Meadow? I think a stroll round it will do me good.
I haven't altogether recovered my strength yet." "To be sure I will go with you, Bryan," said the bright-eyed and affectionate sister; "to be sure I will; it's on my way to Gerald Cavanagh's; and I'm going down to see how they are, and to know if something I heard about them is thrue.
I want to satisfy myself; but they musn't get on their high horse with me, I can tell them." "You never doubted me, Dora," said Bryan, as they went along--"you never supposed for a moment that I could"-- he paused.
"I know," he added, "that it doesn't look well; but you never supposed that I acted from treachery, or deceit, or want of affection or respect for my religion? You don't suppose that what all the country is ringin' with--that I took a bribe or made a bargain with Vanston--is true ?" "Why do you ask me such questions ?" she replied.
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