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Now that she was with them, Oliver Dromore began to haunt the house, coming at all hours, on very transparent excuses. She behaved to him with extreme capriciousness, sometimes hardly speaking, sometimes treating him like a brother; and in spite of all his nonchalance, the poor youth would just sit glowering, or gazing out his adoration, according to her mood.
Never was a girl so untouched by thought, or Art yet not stupid, having, seemingly, a certain natural good taste; only, nothing, evidently, had come her way. How could it 'Johnny Dromore duce, et auspice Johnny Dromore! She had been taken, indeed, to the National Gallery while at school.
When is she going to let me teach her drawing?" Dromore crossed the room, drew back the curtain of the picture, and in a muffled voice, said: "My God, Lenny! Life's unfair. Nell's coming killed her mother. I'd rather it had been me bar chaff! Women have no luck." Lennan got up from his comfortable chair.
Lord Inchiquin, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, was present, as well as Mr. Burton, of Carnelly; Mr. T. Crowe, of Dromore; Colonel Macdonell; Mr. Hall, of Cluny, who has outlived sundry attempts at assassination; Mr. Dawson, of Bunratty; Mr. Hewett; and thirty-eight other magistrates.
She would be there, sitting by the fire in the big chair, playing with her kitten, thinking, dreaming, and alone! He passed on at such a pace that people stared; till, turning the last corner for home, he ran almost into the arms of Oliver Dromore. The young man was walking with unaccustomed indecision, his fur coat open, his opera-hat pushed up on his crisp hair.
Even Johnny Dromore most reticent of creatures had confided to him that one hour of his astute existence, when the wind had swept him out to sea! Yes! And that statuette would never be any good, try as he might. Oliver was right it was her eyes!
Indeed his obliging activity in doing little offices of kindness, both by letters and personal application, was one of the most remarkable features in his character; and for the truth of this I can appeal to a number of his respectable friends: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Langton, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Burke, Mr. Windham, Mr. Malone, the Bishop of Dromore, Sir William Scott, Sir Robert Chambers.
Against this hasty mischief I know not what security can be obtained; men will be sometimes surprised into quarrels. The Idler, No. 23. See ante, ii. 100, note 1. Though the Bishop of Dromore kindly answered the letters which I wrote to him, relative to Dr.
We observe, also, that in 1550, Arthur Magennis, the Pope's Bishop of Dromore, was allowed by the government to enter on possession of his temporalities after taking an oath of allegiance, while King's Bishops were appointed in that and the next two years to the vacant Sees of Kildare, Leighlin, Ossory, and Limerick.
Blake, afterwards Bishop of Dromore, in which it was denounced as "pregnant with mischief" and entirely "non-obligatory upon the Catholic Church in Ireland."
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