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The Tithe-Proctor

CHAPTER XVII
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But I am depressed, and my heart is full of an unaccountable sorrow." "My ever--ever dear--dearest Julia!" he exclaimed, as he pressed her to his heart; where she sobbed, and tenderly reacknowledged her love.

"On Monday, however," she observed, after having somewhat composed herself, "I shall tell you, at full length, the circumstances that have disturbed me with respect to you." Another kiss as they separated, and so it was arranged between them.
When Mogue Moylan heard that John purcel had gone to the gunsmith's for the blunderbluss, he stealthily sought the barn where he slept, and, putting on a great frieze coat, he went to the haggard; approached the stack, and thrusting his hand up the thatch, secured a case of pistols that had been left with him and Jerry Joyce for their defence, and fixing them under his coat, deliberately took his departure.
"I'll have betther luck," he said to himself, "to join the boys, and as I have my own party among them that'll stand to me, we'll have the best chance.

I'm to take charge o' the girls for him, after the men's shot; an' it'll go hard if I don't do him out o' the one he's set upon.

If I sted in the house, as I intended at first, maybe it's a bullet from the boys I'd get into me.

No--no--every way--think of it as I will, it's my wisest plan to cut; an' at any rate, he'd find me out now about the blunderbuss.


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