I am morally convinced, ay, and have good raison to know it from more than one quarther, that your father's house would have been attacked long since, if it were not for the near neighborhood of dare-devil O'Driscol.

And yet these fellows like courage, Alick; for instance, read that warning.

There you see is a plot laid for my life; but I'll show the villains that they have the wrong sow by the ear.

I have showed them as much before, and will show them as much again." He then handed the note, with an air of triumph, to Alick, who read it over and assumed a look of great terror.
"Of course you will be guided by this, Mr.O'Driscol." "Of course I will not, Mr.Purcel; not a bit of it.

I will ride--armed, of course--past Philpot's corner this very day, at half-past three o'clock; that is all I say." "Well all I can say," returned Alick, "is that you are a fearfully-determined man, sir." "I grant that, Alick, I know I am; but then it is in my nature.