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But this, including as it does, one of the most important events of my life, I reserve for another chapter. "What is that place called, Sergeant?" "Bunratty Castle, sir," "Where do we breakfast?" "At Clare Island, sir." "March away, boys!" For a week after my arrival at Kilrush, my life was one of the most dreary monotony.
The first intelligence which reached the Nuncio on landing, was the negotiation of Glamorgan, of which he had already heard, while waiting a ship at Rochelle. The next was the surrender by the Earl of Thomond, of his noble old castle of Bunratty, commanding the Shannon within six miles of Limerick, to the Puritans.
I have read since in one of those musty books of Bunratty, that moths and butterflies come to life by shaking themselves out, one fine day, from a dull-looking, shapeless, ugly thing they call a grub, in which they have been buried for a long time.
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