"And we used always to say that though every other house in the county were opened to the Dawsons, Aghadoe Abbey would shut its door in their faces." "It shall shut its door," Mary Champion said indignantly.

"He is frightening them because they are old and have no son to lean upon.
Garret Dawson is an evil plotter and schemer, and there is blood and tears on his money.

Aghadoe shall be safe from him." "How can he have frightened them ?" I asked.

"They have never borrowed money from him." The cloud deepened on my godmother's face.
"It must be something about Luke," she said.

"But whatever it is, I will swear it is not true.