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Tales by the O'hara Family (3); Second Series: Comprising the Nowlans, and Peter of the Castle
Tales by the O'hara Family Second Series Comprising the Nowlans and Peter of the Castle - 3 Author:John Banim Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Original Publisher: H. Colburn Subjects: Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Millio... more »n-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " Explain your meaning there, Sir ! -- explain, this moment!" " Tut, silly boy," turning from him as he advanced, and taking a chair. " Well, Sir, then hear me go on. This scrap of a letter I found, but a few hours ago, near to where you had been sitting to your escritoire, in the parlour. I picked it up, to place it out of the han'ds of the servants; in doing so, my own name -- the name you have chosen to give me, I should rather say -- struck my eye, in your wife's handwriting; a natural and, I hope, excusable curiosity prompted me to run over the lines, and then I read what I now read to you : 'tis but a part of a letter, Sir, and seems the conclusion of one; -- there is no clue to the first few words, which, howevtr, are ' could have died . in poverty, much happier;' but afterwards, Sir, we have an almost unbroken sentence. -- ' Yes, Joshua, on my death-bed, and about to face my God, nothing distresses my soul but the wrong done to this poor Redmond: my only hope and comfort is, that while you live you will be a father to him, and, ere you find yourself in my present situation, insure to him, by a legal act, all that you believe to be his right : perhaps Heaven would allow another mode ofarrangement, without injury to our own child ; perhaps she and he ' here, Sir, the scrap ends; now, can you explain it? Now, will you yield me the satisfaction I have hitherto vainly begged for ?"' " I believe, indeed, I must, Redmond, though for your own sake, I wish this necessity had not occurred for doing so: the prospect of being compelled to answ...« less