That was it.

Ha! ha! I know it was, for you are my father, and I am your daughter; and that's what I would do like a man.

But you never did it--ah! you never did it in cowld blood, or like a coward." There was something absolutely impressive and commanding in her sparkling eyes, and the energetic tones of her voice, whilst she addressed him.
"Donnel," said the wife, "it's no saicret to me; but it's enough now that you've owned it.

This is the last night that I'll spend with a murdherer.

You know what I've to answer for on my own account; and so, in the name of God, we'll part in the mornin'." "Ha!" exclaimed Sarah, "you'd leave him now, would you?
You'd desart him now; now that all the world will turn against him; now that every tongue will abuse him; that every heart will curse him; that every eye will turn away from him with hatred; now that shame, an' disgrace, an' guilt is all upon his head; you'd leave him, would you, and join the world against him?
Father, on my knees I go to you;" and she dropped down as she spoke; "here on my knees I go to you, an' before you spake, mark, that through shame an' pain, an' sufferin', an' death, I'll stay by you, an' with you.