To-day in Ireland [by E.E. Crowe].1825 |
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Página 153 - Letters miscarry in a thousand ways. • " " la it for so many years, your reverence ? But at any rate, Martha has waited long enough for true love, and sure she can't bide a lone woman all her life! She must make up her mind. Poor Michy was a clane lad and a clever; but there's as good fish in the sea as ever was caught.
Página 290 - Churches, and all their friends, wondered at the sudden conversion of the rapparee ; voi. in. o but his imprecations were as frequent as his prayers, and the soul of Murragh found no content. His first applications were to the holiest men, the living sainted ; but they, as soon as Murragh confessed the perjury, exhorted him to open confession of his falsehood before the world. The penitent was not sufficiently submissive or devout to obey in this point ; nor yet did the advice of others, arguing...
Página 294 - The brotherhood found no more their wonted welcome at Clonmorth; and it was noised that the rapparee had relapsed into his old ungodly ways. In the mean time his progeny grew up around him to manhood, and every new trait in them of boldness and promise reminded their parent the deeper of all he had doomed them to lose. He forgot not, however, his last resolve; and although he lingered in meditating and preparing its execution, he was not the less determined upon it. To this end, he colleagued and...
Página 303 - Since that period, however, the demon had scrupulously kept his word to Murragh ; and not a single descendant of his could die in peace, without the visitation beforehand of the fiendish grin. This, which had been solicited as an ho. nour by Murragh, proved a considerable inconvenience to his posterity, who, by any means less fearful than entering into another agreement with the enemy of mankind, would have dispensed with the never-failing warning. Through the space of two centuries they had tried...
Página 286 - ... if he were not contented to employ it for the cause, himself contented with the humble station that befitted his rank. The indignant blood of Toole purpled his cheek, and his hand grasped his golden hilt instinctively, ready to obey his passion; but his plebeian heart was awed in the presence of the nobles of the land. Yet to return an outcast to his followers, was too ignominious to be endured.
Página 286 - English gold ;" — and he flung down his sword, of which the hilt was framed of that massy metal, — " won from the Saxon and the heretic. And here," quoth he, touching the blade, " is the seal appended, which shall defy the doubts of an impertinent question !" Kevenagh drew a similar patent of nobility ; but the broil was prevented. And the bold plea of Murragh was openly disallowed by the assessors of that noble court. In their respect for the sacred privilege of noble blood, the cause for which...
Página 14 - Ardenmore were numerous, especially amongst the weaker sex, whom his pathos, and cambric handkerchief moistened with pulpit tears, never failed to move. Even the good squires, who slumbered or snored during the young apostle's preaching, heard his doctrines subsequently repreached to them by domestic missionaries, with whom for peace-sake it was always best to coincide. This proselytism had, however, not been universal ; many of both sexes still held out against Mr. O'Sing, and shut their eyes against...
Página 284 - ... in the solitude of power, where it never clashed with, or was insulted by rival dignity. The hostile coming of Cromwell, however, compelled every native, possessed of power, to 'unite, that they might take measures of defence against the common enemy. The Black Castle was the place of rendezvous ; and Murragh Toole, the rapparee, repaired thither with a numerous band of armed retainers, that eclipsed the lesser followings of the old Lords, and filled the bosoms of these nobles with jealousy....
Página 304 - ... hapless race would become extinct. It is extraordinary how men work their purpose often in ways diametrically opposite to their intentions. So it was with Lawrence Toole; his immediate plans were all, as those of such kind generally are, utterly defeated. How, I leave the reader to guess ; — what with the bad morals of foreign convents, and their subsequent destruction by the Revolution — what with the licentious propensities that always attend youth too rigidly guarded, — it so happened...
Página 293 - O'Connors, and buried himself once more at Clonmorth, to meditate on darker plans for ennobling the name of Toole, and eluding the fatal snare that Kevenagh had laid for his race. CHAPTER V. FROM that day Murragh Toole forswore all pilgrimages, even to the neighbouring shrine of St. Kevin and the holy places of Glendalough. The brotherhood found no more their wonted welcome at Clonmorth ; and it was noised that the rapparee had relapsed into his old ungodly ways. In the mean time his progeny grew...