Mr.
Woodward, God save us! is no fit husband for any Christian! woman."
"Why so?" asked Alice, laboring under, some vague sense of alarm.
"Why, Heavenly Father! Miss Alice, sure it's well known he has the Evil
Eye; it's in the family upon his mother's side."
"My God!" exclaimed Alice, who became instantly as pale as death, "if
that be true, Caterine, it's shocking."
"True," replied Caterine; "did you never I observe his eyes?"
"Not particularly."
"Did you remark that they're of different colors? that one of them is as
black as the devil's, and the other a gray?"
"I never observed that," replied Alice, who really never had.
"Yes, and I could tell you more than that about him," proceeded
Caterine; "they say he's connected wid what's not good. Sure, when they
got up a bonfire for him, doesn't all the world know that it was put out
by a shower of blood; and that's a proof that he's a favorite wid the
devil and the fairies."
"I believe," replied Alice, "that there is no doubt whatsoever about the
shower of blood; but I should not consider that fact as proof that he is
a favorite with either the devil or the fairies.
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