[Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookValentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent CHAPTER XIV 4/16
My own eyes cannot deceive me.
Lost and unhappy girl! what will become of her? But that's not all--for she has proved herself treacherous, and deceitful, and worthless." "Ay," said the crones whom Poll had brought to witness what certainly seemed to them to be the innocent girl's shame and degradation--"ay," they observed, "there's now an end to her character, at any rate. The pride of the M'Loughlins has got a fall at last--and indeed they desarved it; for they held their heads as upsettin' as if they were dacent Protestants, and them nothing but Papishes affeher all." "Go home, now," said Poll; "go home all of yez.
You've seen enough, and too much.
Throth I'm sorry for the girl, and did all I could, to persuade her against the step she tuck; but it was no use--she was more like one that tuck love powdhers from him, than a raisonable bein'." Harman's cousin had already departed, but in such a state of amazement, indignation, and disgust, that he felt himself incapable of continuing a conversation with any one, or of bestowing his attention upon any other topic whatsoever.
He was thunderstruck--his very faculties were nearly paralyzed, and his whole mind literally clouded in one dark chaos of confusion and distress. "Now," said Poll to the females who accompanied her--"go home every one of yez; but, for goodness sake don't be spakin' of what you seen this night.
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