"[...] She then blessed herself and entered the house, repeating a short prayer, or charm, which was supposed to possess uncommon efficacy in relieving cases of the nature she was then called upon to attend. Fardorougha Donovan was a man of great good sense, and of strong, but not obvious or flexible feeling; this is to say, on strong occasions he felt accordingly, but exhibited no remarkable symptoms of emotion. In matters of a less important character, he was either deficient in sensibility altogether, or it affected him so slightly as not to be perceptible. What his dispositions and feelings might have been, had his parental affections and domestic sympathies been cultivated by the tender intercourse which subsists between a parent and his children, it is not easy to say. On such occasions many a new and delightful sensation—many a sweet trait of[...]".

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It was on one of those nights in August when the moon and stars shine through an atmosphere clear and cloudless with a mildness of lustre almost continental that a horseman advancing at a rapid pace turned off a remote branch of road up a narrow lane and dismounting before a neat whitewashed cottage gave a quick and impatient knock at the door.