[The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine CHAPTER XXX 2/17
It was Masther Dick that the Prophet desired us to inquire for." "There is a mistake, my friend; there is--my name, my good fellow, happens to be Master Richard, or rather Mister Richard.
In all other respects, everything is right.
I expect a lady; and I am the gentleman, but not Master Dick, though--Richard is the correct reading." "Then, sir," replied the fellow, "here she is;" and whilst speaking, a horseman, bearing a female before him, came forward, and in a few minutes she was transferred without any apparent resistance, to the inside of the vehicle which awaited her.
This vehicle we shall now follow. The night, as we said, was dark, but it was also cold and stormy.
The driver, who had received his instructions, proceeded in the direction of the Grange; and we only I say so generally, because so many cross roads branched off from that which they took, that it was impossible to say when or where; Master or Mister Richard may have intended to stop.
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