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A faint disgust stirred my pulse. We Ormonds had as much to lose as he, but yelled it not to the skies, nor clamored of gain and loss in such unseemly fashion, ignoring higher motive. "Sir Lupus," I said, "if we can remain neutral with honor, that surely is wisest. But can we?" "Remain neutral! Of course we can!" he shouted. "Honorably?" "Eh?
"We're all Quakers in these days eh, George? We can't fight no, we really can't! It's wrong, George, oh, very wrong." And he fell a-chuckling, so that his paunch shook like a jelly. "I think you do not understand me," I said. He looked up quickly. "We Ormonds are only waiting to draw sword." "Draw sword!" he cried. "What d'ye mean?"
"I have honoured little else in the world," he said. They looked at one another for a moment; then her quick smile broke out. "I have an album. There are some Paiges, Ormonds, and Berkleys in it " Ailsa came forward slowly. "Shall I look for it, Celia?" "No, Honey-bell."
"I had the facts I'm going to give, from Mrs. Ormond. You know that the Ormonds left New York a couple of years ago?" He happened to look at Minver as he spoke, and Minver answered: "No; I must confess that I didn't even know they had left the planet." Wanhope ignored his irrelevant ignorance.
Then he turned to her and took his leave of her in a conventional manner entirely worthy of the name his mother bore, and her mother before her, and many a handsome man and many a beautiful woman back to times when a great duke stood unjustly attainted, and the Ormonds served their king with steel sword and golden ewer; and served him faithfully and well. Camilla Lent called a little later.
As Sir Lupus named me, Walter Butler dropped Sir George's hand and grasped mine, too eagerly to please me. "Ormond and Ormond-Butler need no friends to recommend them each to the other," he said. And straightway fell a-talking of the greatness of the Arrans and the Ormonds, and of that duke who, attainted, fled to France to save his neck.
The mansions of the Desmonds, of the Burgos, of the Ormonds, were the headquarters of their respective clans, not the inaccessible fortresses of steel-clad warriors, who alone were possessed of social and civil rights. If the master of the household held sometimes the title of earl, or count, or baron, he was careful never to use it before his retainers, whom he called his clansmen.
Another of the great houses was that of the Ormonds, descended from Theobald Walter, a nephew of Thomas
"We Ormonds can comprehend your dismay, your distress, your doubts," I said. "Our indigo grows almost within gunshot of the British outpost at New Smyrna; our oranges, our lemons, our cane, our cotton, must wither at a blast from the cannon of Saint Augustine.
Steele's heart was with the cause of the Revolution, and he owed also to the Ormonds a kind of family allegiance. What was more natural than that he should be among those young Oxford men who were tempted to enlist in the Chancellor's own regiment for the defence of liberty? Lord Cutts, the Colonel of the Regiment, made Steele his Secretary, and got him an Ensign's commission.
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