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The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine

CHAPTER XX
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Come, father, for I must go from home too.

Indeed I think this is the last day I'll be with either of you for some time--maybe ever." "What do you mane ?" said the father.
"Hut!" said the mother, "what a goose you are! Charley Hanlon, to be sure; I suppose she'll run off wid him.

Oh, thin, God pity him or any other one that's doomed to be blistered wid you!" Sarah flashed like lightning, and her frame began to work with that extraordinary energy which always accompanied the manifestation of her resentment.
"You will," said she, approaching the other--"you will, after your escape the other day; you--no, ah! no--I won't now; I forgot myself.
Come, father,--come, come; my last quarrel with her is over." "Ay," returned Nelly, as they went out, "there you go, an' a sweet pair you are--father and daughter!" "Now, father," resumed Sarah, after they had got out of hearing, "will you tell me if you slep' well last night ?" "Why do you ax ?" he replied; "to be sure I did." "I'll tell you why I ax," she answered; "do you know that you went last night--in the middle of the night--to the murdhered man's grave, in the glen there ?" It is impossible to express the look of astonishment and dismay which he turned up on her at these words.
"Sarah!" he said, sternly; but she interrupted him.
"It's thruth," said she; "an I went with--" "What are you spakin' about?
Me go out, an' not know it! Nonsense!" "You went in your sleep, she rejoined.
"Did I spake ?" said he, with a black and; ghastly look.
"What--what--tell me--eh?
What did I say ?" "You talked a good deal, an' said that it was Condy Dalton that murdhered him, and that you had Red Rody to prove it." "That was what I said ?--eh, Sarah ?" "That's what you said, an' I thought it was only right to tell you." "It was right, Sarah; but at the same time, at the peril of your life, never folly me there again.

Of coorse, you know now that Sullivan is buried there." "I do," said she; "but that's no great comfort, although it is to know that you didn't murdher him.

At any rate, father, remember what I tould you about Condy Dalton.


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