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Asgill, that, being a Justice, is not used to our Kerry tantrums!" Possibly this last was a hint, cunningly veiled. At any rate, The McMurrough took his seat again with a better grace than usual, and Asgill made haste to take up the talk.
But it was not all. Some one spoke of Asgill, and of another Justice in the neighbourhood, asserting that their hearts were with the rising, and that at a later point their aid might be expected. At once, "The Evil One's spawn!" cried Sir Donny, rising in his place, and speaking under the influence of great excitement. "If you're for dealing with them, I'm riding! No Protestants!
"In his absence," Asgill answered, with mock politeness, "I will have the honour of lighting you." "You needn't trouble." "Faith, and it's no trouble at all," Asgill replied in the same tone. And, taking two of the candles from the table, he preceded the Englishman up the stairs. The gradual ascent of the lights and the men's mounting footsteps should have given Flavia warning of their coming.
Sullivan come back to Holy Church, and not a morning but Father O'Hara's with him making his soul and what not!" "Turned!" Uncle Ulick cried. "Luke Asgill, the Justice? Boys, you're making fun of me!" And, unable to believe what the O'Beirnes told him, he looked to Flavia for confirmation. "It is true," she said. "Bedad, it is?" Uncle Ulick replied.
Captain Asgill had another friend, a powerful one, who did all that he could to save him from his impending fate.
And so it happened that a few minutes later Luke Asgill, standing at the entrance to the courtyard, a little anxious indeed, but aware of no immediate danger, looked along the road, and saw the three approaching, linked in apparent amity. The shock was great, for James McMurrough had fled, cursing, into solitude and the hills, taking no steps to warn his ally.
"Because he's a silly fool, as I'm thinking some others are, and has a fancy for you, Flavvy! Faith, you're not blind!" he continued, forgetting that he had only learned the fact from Asgill a few days before, and that it was news to the younger men "and know it, I'll be sworn, as well as I do!
Mr. John Asgill, of Lincoln's Inn, in a small tract entitled, "Several Assertions proved, in order to create another Species of Money than Gold and Silver," has so distinctly handled this very case, with such strength of argument, such clearness of reason, such a judgment, and such a style, as all the ingenious part of the world must acknowledge themselves extremely obliged to him for that piece.
Among strictly theological works one by John Asgill, barrister, claims a peculiar distinction, for it was burnt by order of two Parliaments, English and Irish, and its author expelled from two Houses of Commons.
He condemned the proceedings in the case of Huddy, and broke up the board of loyalists. Thus, in time, the most prominent features of the case became changed. Meanwhile Lady Asgill had written a most pathetic letter to the Count de Vergennes, the French minister, imploring him to intercede on behalf of her son.