we'll have,
plaise goodness--ah, you ill-thinkin', skulkin' villains!"

Kate Hogan, though a tigress when provoked, and a hardened, reckless
creature, scarcely remarkable for any particular virtue that could be
enumerated, and formidable from that savage strength and intrepidity
for which she was so well known, was yet not merely touched by the
sufferings of Kathleen Cavanagh, but absolutely took an interest in
them, at once so deep and full of sympathy, as to affect her temper and
disturb her peace of mind. Notwithstanding her character she was still
a woman; and, in matters involving the happiness of an innocent and
beautiful creature of her own sex, who had been so often personally kind
to herself, and whose family were protectors and benefactors to her and
her kindred, she felt as a woman. Though coarse-minded upon most many
matters, she was yet capable of making the humane distinction which her
brutal relatives could not understand or feel;--we mean the fact that,
in having lent themselves to the base conspiracy planned and concocted
by Hycy Burke, and in having been undoubtedly the cause of M'Mahon's
disgrace, as well as of his projected marriage with Kathleen having been
broken up, they did not perceive that she was equally a sufferer; or,
if they did, they were either too cunning or too hardened to acknowledge
it. For this particular circumstance, Kate, inasmuch as it involved deep
ingratitude on their part, could not at all forgive them.

At this time, indeed, the melancholy position of Kathleen Cavanagh was
one which excited profound and general sorrow; and just in proportion
as this was sincere, so was the feeling of indignation against him whose
corruption and want of principle were supposed to have involved her
in their consequences. Two months or better of the period allotted by
Kathleen to the vindication of his character, had now elapsed, and yet
nothing had been done to set himself right either with her or the world.
She consequently argued and with apparent reason, that everything in the
shape of justification was out of his power, and this reflection only
deepened her affliction. Yes, it deepened her affliction; but it did
not; on that account succeed in enabling her to obliterate his image
the more easily from her heart. The fact was, that despite the force and
variety of the rumors that were abroad against him--and each succeeding
week brought in some fresh instance of his duplicity and profligacy,