This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xiv "Take up a weeping on the mountains wild."--milton. Meantime Molly Carew was wandering over the countryside restless and unhappy. When Hugh had left her, she deliberately returned to Brady's Wood and searched for the Great Dane's body, knowing that if it were discovered near the wood, Hugh ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xiv "Take up a weeping on the mountains wild."--milton. Meantime Molly Carew was wandering over the countryside restless and unhappy. When Hugh had left her, she deliberately returned to Brady's Wood and searched for the Great Dane's body, knowing that if it were discovered near the wood, Hugh O'Dowla could not fail to be implicated in the murder. Having found it, she lifted it on her shoulder and carried it by stages for a distance of nearly a mile, and pitched it into a deep cleft in a disused quarry. The effort was one entailing violent exertion, and the girl's muscles were still smarting from the strain when she chanced to espy Edward O'Brile going towards Brady's Wood. Still solicitous only for Hugh O'Dowla, she determined to follow young O'Brile; and, unluckily for herself, he had led her back to the scene of the murder, where she encountered the police. When Molly Carew perceived that she had escaped out of range of the rifles, she wandered stealthily about the darksome brakes and gullies in the vicinity of Brady's Wood, greatly perturbed by the adventure. She then decided to travel far away from the wood, following the least frequented and most difficult pathways. Abandoning the idea of keeping her appointment with Hugh at Garekiln, she wandered up a deep glen until she came to the bound's-ditch of the stock-farm on which her father acted as herd. She was strongly tempted to go home, but, in her agitated condition, she could not summon up courage to face the parental eye. She could picture her mother with oppressive distinctness sweeping the earthen housefloor, bustling about amongst the children and the fowl, molly'S anguish 175 hurrying through her morning's work in her anxiety to get into Gallowglass early for her...
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