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The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine

CHAPTER VII
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What he will come too, if God hasn't said it.

I hope he feels the affliction he brought on poor Ned Munay an' his family by the hand he made of his unfortunate daughter." "He does feel it.

The death of her brother and their situation has touched his heart, an' he's only waitin' for better health and better times to do her justice; but now what answer do you give me ?" "Why, this: I'm harrished by what I've done for every one; an'-- an'-- the short and the long of it is, that I've naither male nor money to throw away.

I couldn't afford it and I can't.

I'm a rogue, Mrs.Dalton--a miser, an extortioner, an ungrateful knave, and everything that is bad an' worse than another; an' for that raison, I say, I have naither male nor money to throw away.


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