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On that foot there glittered a shoe not indeed such as were my own which were now resting ingloriously at Ballyglass while they were so sorely needed at Castle Conor; but one which I could wear before ladies, without shame and in my present frame of mind with infinite contentment.
He was as good as his word, or rather better; for he breakfasted at Kelly's Court, and induced Lord Ballindine to get into his own gig, and drive him as far as the mail-coach road. "But you'll be four or five hours too soon," said Frank; "the coach doesn't pass Ballyglass till three." "I want to see those cattle of Rutledge's.
Write a note and say what you want now, and go and get the rest to-morrow yourself. Here, Patsey! Patsey! run into Ballyglass for this gentleman at once. Now don't be long, for the chances are we shall find here." And then, after giving some further hurried instructions he left me to write a line in pencil to the innkeeper's wife on the back of a ditch. This I accordingly did.
My head-quarters would, I found, be at the town of Ballyglass; and I soon learned that Ballyglass was not a place in which I should find hotel accommodation of a luxurious kind, or much congenial society indigenous to the place itself. "But you are a hunting man, you say," said old Sir P- C-; "and in that case you will soon know Tom O'Conor. Tom won't let you be dull.
Meehan at Ballyglass. It's only ten miles, and he'll be back in two hours." I need hardly say that I acted in conformity with this advice, I went into Mr. O'Conor's book room, with Jack and his sister, and there scribbled a note. I was delightful to feel how intimate I was with them, and how anxious they were to make me happy. "And we won't begin till they come," said Fanny.
All remonstrance with the inspecting officer, writes a correspondent from Ballyglass, in the same county, is useless; he said the Government orders were peremptory. No seed. No food. Ballnigh, Co. Cavan: Twenty per cent. dismissed, no provision whatever having been made for their support. Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford: No provision made to supply food to the dismissed labourers. Clones, Co.
"You had better go over to Ballyglass yourself to- morrow," said he, "and collect your own things. There's no knowing else what you may have to borrow of Larry." I stayed there three weeks, and in the middle of the third I thought that everything would be arranged between me and Fanny.
Men there as I learnt afterwards, are sought for themselves quite as much as they are elsewhere; and though my groom's top-boots were neat, and my horse a very tidy animal, my entry into Ballyglass created no sensation whatever.
I come'd all the way from Ballyglass this blessed morning to 'arn a tizzy, and av' I doesn't get it from you this turn, I'll " But Lambert Brown had gone into the house, and on his return after breakfast he fully justified the lad's suspicion, for he again promised him that he wouldn't forget him, and that he'd see him some day at Mr Dillon's.
The great event of that time was the day that we went to Ballyglass, not to see the coach go by, but to get into it, for in those days the railway stopped at Athenry. And that was the day I saw the canal, and heard with astonishment that there was a time long ago, no doubt in my father's youth, when people used to go to Dublin in a barge.
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