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"O Emilee!" cried the Captain, "that boy whom I loved as the boy of mee
bosom is only a scoundthrel, and a deceiver, mee poor girl:" and he
looked in the most tragical way at Mr. Bows, opposite; who, in his turn,
gazed somewhat anxiously at Miss Costigan.
"He! pooh! Sure the poor lad's as simple as a schoolboy," she said. "All
them children write verses and nonsense."
"He's been acting the part of a viper to this fireside, and a traitor in
this familee," cried the Captain. "I tell ye he's no better than an
impostor."
"What has the poor fellow done, Papa?" asked Emily.
"Done? He has deceived us in the most athrocious manner," Miss Emily's
papa said. "He has thrifled with your affections, and outraged my own
fine feelings. He has represented himself as a man of property, and it
turruns out that he is no betther than a beggar. Haven't I often told ye
he had two thousand a year? He's a pauper, I tell ye, Miss Costigan; a
depindent upon the bountee of his mother; a good woman, who may marry
again, who's likely to live for ever, and who has but five hundred a
year.


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