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"And afterwards will you come back with me to Aghadoe?" "I think not. If your uncle wants me he will find me here." "I think he will see Garret Dawson first. He will not come to you till all that is cleared up." "It need never be cleared for me. Whatever the story was, it is for me as though it never existed." I made a most prodigious breakfast.

She was coming home in the summer and was to stay at Aghadoe, and Theobald was to follow her in the autumn and they were to be married. My grandmother was rather nervous about the prospect of receiving her alone. "For, of course, you will be on your travels, Bawn," she said; "and although Luke and Mary will be at Castle Clody, it will not be the same thing as if they were here.

To the new lord of Ossory he granted the monasteries of Aghadoe and Aghmacarte, with the right of holding court lete and market, every Thursday, at his town of Aghadoe. For these and other favours the recipients had been instructed to petition the King, and drafts of such petitions had been drawn up in anticipation of their arrival in England, by some official hand.

But there was a period of trouble in which I was packed away to my nursery and the companionship of Maureen Kelly, our old nurse. When I emerged from that it was to find my grandfather stern and sad, and my grandmother with a scared look and the roses of her cheeks faded. And for long the shadow lay over Aghadoe.

I clutched at his sleeve as he was stepping out of the carriage. "What are you going to do?" I asked again. "Find consolation where I can. There are some ready to offer it, Bawn." He closed the door, and I heard him telling the chauffeur to drive me to Aghadoe. I put my head out to see the last of him as we drove away, and he was standing in the darkness still looking after me.

They kept nothing from me, and my grandmother has said to me with a watery smile: "If I survive your grandfather, Bawn, my dear, you and I will have to find genteel lodgings in Dublin. It would be a strange thing for a Lady St. Leger to come down from Aghadoe Abbey to that. To be sure there was once a Countess went ballad-singing in the streets of Cork." "That day is far away," I answered.

My grandparents, having ascertained that Miss Travers was a quite unexceptional person, had an access of cheerfulness. I could see that once I was married and the paper in their hands, whatever it was, they would begin to look forward to Theobald's return and his marriage. There would be great days at Aghadoe yet; but I should not be there to see them.

The chief Elizabethan settlers in Kerry were William and Charles Herbert, Valentine Brown, ancestor of the Kenmares, Edmund Denny, and Captain Conway, whose daughter Avis married Robert Blennerhasset, while a little later, in 1600, John Crosbie was made Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe.

I could have been no more than six years of age when my Uncle Luke vanished out of my surroundings. At that time Theobald had not come to be an inmate of Aghadoe, and I noticed things as an over-wise child, accustomed to the society of its elders, will. I often wondered about it in later years. I had no memory of a wake and a funeral, and I think if these things had been I should have known.

I noticed that he did not talk now so much of coming back as he had done at first; but at first he had been very lonely for Aghadoe and all of us. Day by day during that summer the shadow seemed to darken on Lord St. Leger's face, and my grandmother looked no less harassed.