A Born Coquette

Excerpt from A Born Coquette: A Novel "Not a better man was found By the crier on His round, Through the town." "I'm done wid ye! I'm done wid ye! I wash me hands of ye!" says Mr. Murphy shaking those withered append ages wildly in the air in mingled wrath and grief. That he is the ancient butler, and they the junior members of the family in which he has served for years untold, does not in the least detract from the dignity of this denunciation. "But, Murphy," begins William with a sort of muffled roar. "Hould yer tongue, sir! I declare, Masther William, wondher ye aren't dead wid the shame. To go poachin! poachin! mind ye! in the middle of July; an' to be found out! Oh! musha, but 'tis I'm the miserable man this day." "But, Murphy!" begins William again, the roar now a resounding one, and the fresh young face crimson with mortification, as he notes the condemnatory glances of the brothers and sisters round him. "I wasn't poaching, I was only -" "Tell that to the Marines," says Mr. Murphy with great scorn - "Tell it to the colonel! He'll prosecute ye, as sure as fate. Oh! the divil a lie in it. He'll be down upon ye wid a paper that'll put ye in prison before ye've time to turn in yer bed this night." At this Henjy, the smallest child, gives way to loud lamentations, and flinging himself bodily upon William, encircles him with arms and legs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.