Of course I shall sign any necessary
paper."
Bryan then withdrew, after having received another friendly nod of
remonstrance, which seemed to say, "Why will you thus persist, when you
see that he is not disposed to enter into these matters now? Am I not
your friend?" Still, however, he did not feel perfectly at ease with the
result of his visit. A slight sense of uncertainty and doubt crept over
him, and in spite of every effort at confidence, he found that that
which he had placed in Fethertonge, if it did not diminish, was most
assuredly not becoming stronger.
CHAPTER XVI.---A Spar Between Kate and Philip Hogan
--Bryan M'Mahon is Cautioned against Political Temptation--He Seeks
Major Vanston's Interest with the Board of Excise.
The consequences of the calamity which was hanging over Bryan M'Mahon's
head, had become now pretty well understood, and occasioned a very
general and profound sympathy for the ruin in which it was likely to
involve him. Indeed, almost every one appeared to feel it more than he
himself did, and many, who on meeting him, were at first disposed to
offer him consolation, changed their purpose on witnessing his cheerful
and manly bearing under it. Throughout the whole country there was but
one family, with another exception, that felt gratified at the blow
which had fallen on him.
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