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No later now than the last ball at the Castle that was before I left Dublin, Miss Nugent the apartments, owing to the popularity of my lady-lieutenant, was so throng so throng that I remember very well, in the doorway, a lady and a very genteel woman she was too, though a stranger to me saying to me, "Sir, your finger's in my ear."
New faces and new equipages appeared: people, who had never been heard of before, started into notice, pushed themselves forward, not scrupling to elbow their way even at the castle; and they were presented to my lord-lieutenant and to my lady-lieutenant; for their excellencies might have played their vice-regal parts to empty benches, had they not admitted such persons for the moment to fill their court.
It was Father Healy, too, who, in posting a newly arrived lady as to Dublin notabilities, said, "You will find that there are only two people who count in Dublin, the Lady-Lieutenant and Lady Iveagh, her Ex. and her double X," for the marks on the barrels of the delicious beverage brewed by the Guinness family must be familiar to most people.
We sat down to supper, each next to his sweetheart, and to my surprise the lieutenant's mistress was the first to begin the fun. Thinking that she could not pretend to be a man without being impudent, she began to toy with the lady-lieutenant, who defended himself like a prudish miss. The two cousins, not to be outdone, began to caress us in a manner that was rather free.
"'Is that Calvert, the little man that blushes when the Lady-Lieutenant speaks to him? said Lady Mary. "'The very man. "'Would it be of any use to you if he could not come on the hustings to-morrow? said she, again. "''Twould gain us the day.
We sat down to supper, each next to his sweetheart, and to my surprise the lieutenant's mistress was the first to begin the fun. Thinking that she could not pretend to be a man without being impudent, she began to toy with the lady-lieutenant, who defended himself like a prudish miss. The two cousins, not to be outdone, began to caress us in a manner that was rather free.
We'll start talking about the new pier as if it were quite an original idea that nobody had ever heard of before. We'd get it to a certainty." Doyle was swept away by the glorious possibilities before him. "If so be the Lord-Lieutenant was to come, and the Lady-Lieutenant with him, and more of the lords and ladies that does be attending on them up in Dublin Castle "
New faces and new equipages appeared; people, who had never been heard of before, started into notice, pushed themselves forward, not scrupling to elbow their way even at the Castle; and they were presented to my lord-lieutenant and to my lady-lieutenant; for their excellencies, for the time being, might have played their vice-regal parts to empty benches, had they not admitted such persons for the moment to fill their court.
'And her ladyship deserved it so well. But Mrs. Dareville, what happened about her? 'Mrs. Dareville, you remember, some years ago, went to Ireland with some lady-lieutenant to whom she was related.
Much of the semi-regal state observed at the Castle in the days of the Georges has been put down with the Battle-Axe Guards of the Lord-Lieutenant, and with the basset-tables of the "Lady-Lieutenant," as the Vice-queen used to be called. At dinner the Viceroy no longer drinks to the pious and immortal memory of William III., or to the "1st of July 1690."
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