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`` The purtiest girl in this parish , anyhow , '' replied Flanagan , unawares . The words , however , were scarcely out of his lips , when he felt that he had been indiscreet . He immediately added -- `` that is , if she is of this parish ; but I did n't say she is . Maybe We 'll have to thravel a bit to find her out , but come what come may , do n't neglect to be all here about half-past nine o'clock , wid your arms an ' ammunition . '' Duffy , who had sat beside Ned M'Cormiek during the night , gave him a significant look , which the other , who had , in truth , joined himself to Flanagan 's lodge only to watch his movements , as significantly returned . When the men deputed to beat Lynchaghan had blackened their faces , the lodge dispersed for the night , Dandy Duffy and Ned M'Cormick taking their way home together , in order to consider of matters , with which the reader , in due time , shall be made acquainted . Our readers may recollect , that , at the close of that part of our tale which appeared in the preceding number , Dandy Duffy and Ned M'Cormick exchanged significant glances at each other , upon Flanagan 's having admitted unawares that the female he designed to take away on the following night was `` the purtiest girl in the parish . ''