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And then he began a story of a fishing and shooting trip to Connemara, where he had rented certain salmon streams and shooting moors from a squire of the county, named Lismore, who was very much in love with Norah Castellan, and how he had fished and shot and yachted with her and the brother who had sold his diabolical inventions to the enemies of England, until he had come to love the sister as much as he hated the brother.
On the evening of their arrival a telegram from London was waiting at their hotel. It announced that the missing ship had passed up channel undiscovered in a fog until she reached the Downs on the day before Ernest's liabilities fell due. "Do you regret it?" Mrs. Lismore said to her husband. "Not for a moment!" he answered. They decided on pursuing their journey as far as Munich. Mrs.
I am sure it will be successful?" The 'Cercle' was a short prose play, in which the poet satirised the jargon of Dr. Herrenschwand, brother of the doctor I had consulted at Soleure. The play proved to be a great success. I took Poinsinet home to supper, and the poor nursling of the muses ate for four. In the morning he came to tell me that the Countess of Lismore expected me to supper.
There were present O'Reilly, Archbishop of Armagh; Butler, Archbishop of Cashel; O'Kealy, Archbishop of Tuam; David Rothe, the venerable Bishop of Ossory; the Bishops of Clonfert, Elphin, Waterford, Lismore, Kildare, and Down and Conor; the proctors of Dublin, Limerick, and Killaloe, with sixteen other dignitaries and heads of religious orders in all, twenty-nine prelates and superiors, or their representatives.
What does at first seem incomprehensible is that the Archbishop not only of Dublin, but of Cashel and Tuam in the heart of the Irish country and the Bishops of Leighlin, Ossory, Lismore, Cloyne, and Killala, should be parties to this statute. But on closer inspection our surprise at their presence disappears.
"I have twenty times as much money as that, Mr. Lismore, at my sole disposal on one condition." "The condition alluded to in your letter?" "Yes." "Does the fulfilment of the condition depend in some way on any decision of mine?" "It depends entirely on you." That answer closed his lips. With a composed manner and a steady hand, she poured herself out a cup of tea.
I was going to Florence for the sake of the Corticelli and my dear Therese, and I reckoned on the auditor's feigning to ignore my return, in spite of his unjust order, especially if I were residing at the English minister's. On the second day of Lent the disappearance of Lord Lismore was the talk of the town.
But why a lady should persist in keeping an opera-glass fixed on him all through his speech was a question which found the general ingenuity at a loss for a reply. Having returned the glass with an apology, the lady ventured on putting a question next. "Did it strike you, sir, that Mr. Lismore seemed to be out of spirits?" she asked. "I can't say it did, ma'am."
After I had treated the duke's attendants with generosity, the poor nobleman, whom fortune had favoured, and whom nature had deprived of the sweetest of all enjoyments, came with me to the door of my carriage and I went on my way. My Carriage Broken Mariuccia's Wedding-Flight of Lord Lismore My Return to Florence, and My Departure with the Corticelli
He had gone to Madrid in the hope of making his fortune. As I had known him at Paris I addressed him as an old acquaintance. "What are you doing at Rome? Where's my Lord O'Callaghan?" "He's in the next room, but as his father is dead his title is now Earl of Lismore. You know he was an adherent of the Pretender's.
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