Willy Reilly and his dear cooleen bawn . ely proceededhome to his barracks, but took care to avoid any privatecommunication with his patron for some days, lest hemight question him as to what he had done with the animal. In the meantime, this monstrous outrage upon an un-offending priest, who was a natural subject of France, per-petrated, as it was, in the open face of day, and witnessedby so many, could not, as the reader may expect, be long concealed. It soon reached the ears of the Marquis of and his lady, who were deeply distressed at the disappear-ance of their aged and revered friend. Th
Willy Reilly and his dear cooleen bawn . ely proceededhome to his barracks, but took care to avoid any privatecommunication with his patron for some days, lest hemight question him as to what he had done with the animal. In the meantime, this monstrous outrage upon an un-offending priest, who was a natural subject of France, per-petrated, as it was, in the open face of day, and witnessedby so many, could not, as the reader may expect, be long concealed. It soon reached the ears of the Marquis of and his lady, who were deeply distressed at the disappear-ance of their aged and revered friend. The Marquis, onsatisfying himself of the truth of the report, did not, as mighthave been expected, wait upon Sir Robert Whitecraft ; butwithout loss of time set sail for London, to wait upon theFrench Ambassador, to whom he detailed the whole circum-stances of the outrage. And here we shall not further pro-ceed with an account of those circumstances, as they willnecessarily intermingle with that portion of the narrativewhich is to CAPTAIN SMELLPRLEST AND THE BISIlop WILLY K LILLY. 255 CHAPTER XVI. SIR ROBERT INGENIOUSLY EXTRICATES HIMSELF OUT OF AGREAT DIFFICULTY. ON the day after the outrage we have described, the in-dignant old squires carriage stopped at the hall-doorof Sir Robert Whitecraft, whom he found at home. As yet,the latter gentleman had heard nothing of the contumeliousdismissal of Miss Herbert ; but the old squire was not igno-rant of the felonious abduction of the priest. At any othertime, that is to say, in some of his peculiar stretches of loy-alty, the act might have been a feather in the cap of theloyal baronet ; but, at present, he looked both at him andhis exploits through the medium of the insult he had offeredto his daughter. Accordingly, when he entered the baro-nets library, where he found him literally sunk in papers,anonymous letters, warrants, reports to Government, and avast variety of other documents, the worthy Sir Robert rose,and in the mo
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