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Dyán wished him luck in a rather perfunctory tone, considering his vehemence of a moment earlier. All the fire seemed suddenly to have gone out of him. They had just entered the college gate; and a few yards ahead, they caught sight of Lady Despard and Tara the girl's hand linked through her mother's arm. "Oh, I clean forgot," remarked Roy. "I said they could look in."
Small wonder if Oxford seemed to both a paradise of knowledge and of friendly freedom. Small wonder if they believed that, in one bold leap, they had bridged the gulf between East and West. At Bramleigh Beeches, Lilámani who knew all without telling had welcomed them with open arms: and Lady Despard no less.
From the room where they were sitting the inn could plainly be seen, with the crowd outside. Beatrice's eyes were directed toward this. Despard said not a word.
On one such occasion they stood by the window looking out upon the lawn, but seeing nothing in that abstracted gaze. Despard stood facing her, close to her. Her hand was hanging by her side. He stooped and took that little slender hand in his. As he did so he trembled from head to foot. As he did so a faint flush passed over her face. Her head fell forward.
Despard suffered death in February, with nine of his followers, but his Irish confederates only went on with their arrangements with a more reckless resolution. Their plan was the plan of O'Moore and McGuire, to surprise the Castle, seize the authorities and secure the capital; but the Dublin of 1803 was in many respects very different from the Dublin of 1641.
It was stated to have been entered into not only to dethrone, but to kill the King, as he was going from his Palace to the Parliament House, through the Park, by blowing him and his attendants to atoms, by firing the long piece of ordnance at them when they came near the Horse Guards; and it was asserted that Colonel Despard had formed and entered into this conspiracy, to shoot the King and overturn the government, with the said piece of ordnance, in consequence of the ministers refusing to attend to, and liquidate, some claims that he had upon the government.
Something passed between them in that glance which brought back the old, mysterious feeling which she had known before. Despard rose hastily and left the room. "In God's name," cried Brandon, "I say that this man's life was not sought by me, nor the life of any of his. I will tell you all.
I was the one appointed to that task. I took it. I read it, and now that I have arrived in England I have brought it to you." "Where is it?" cried Despard, in wild excitement. "Here," said the stranger, and he laid a package upon the table. Despard seized it, and tore open the coverings.
It was the face of a man who had suffered so much that life had become a burden. "You are a clergyman," said Brandon at length, with a faint hope that an appeal to his profession might have some effect. Despard smiled cynically. "I am a man," said he. "Can not the discovery of a sister," asked Brandon, "atone in some degree for your grief about your father?" Despard shook his head wearily.
With a slight bow Despard walked away, leaving Brandon standing there filled with thoughts which were half mournful, half remorseful. On leaving Brandon Despard went at once to the inn. The crowd without had dwindled away to half a dozen people, who were still talking about the one event of the day. Making his way through these he entered the inn.