They think that, as all the Catholics have been robbed by the Protestants, it's only fair that they should get their turn now; and, if I were your honour, I would lay all my plans out tonight, how to get away and the rest of it, just as if you were assured they would come before the morning." "Why, you have heard nothing certain, Larry ?" "I have not, or I would tell your honour at once; but I know what the people think and feel, and I know that the rapparees have been plundering and destroying every Protestant house around, and they will guess that the ladies will be moving, now that the troop is gone.

Besides, won't they have heard that the news has gone round, for waggons to come to take away the things ?" The earnestness with which Larry spoke convinced Walter that the danger was serious.

Larry was not given to magnify danger, and usually treated all risks with carelessness and indifference.

Walter knew that he would gather, from the stablemen and the people who brought in provisions, much more as to the state of popular feeling in the country than he was likely to know, and he accordingly went down to dinner grave and preoccupied.
Mrs.Conyers soon noticed the change in his manner, and, as soon as the servants had retired, asked him if he had received any bad news.
"No," he said, trying to speak lightly.

"My boy Larry has been trying to scare me about the rapparees, and, although I do not think that there is any danger to be apprehended from them, I do think that it would be just as well to hurry on your preparations, as much as possible, and for you and Claire to go in to Limerick tomorrow afternoon.