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Updated: July 11, 2025
After Richard de Burgo took the town, in 1226, it became a flourishing English colony, and the citizens must have guarded themselves from any intercourse with the native Irish; at least, an old by-law of 1518 enacts that 'neither O' nor Mac shalle strutte ne swaggere thro' the streetes of Galway. We did not go to Galway straight, because we never do anything straight.
"It wouldn't do any good, you know." "But I do want to be of service to you. There is something of truth in what you say. You have been disappointed; and I, perhaps, of all men am the most bound to come to your assistance now that you are in need." "How can I take it from you?" said Burgo, almost crying. "You shall take it from her!" "No; that would be worse; twenty times worse.
The co-heiresses, Margaret and Matilda de Lacy, married Lord Theobald de Verdon and Sir Geoffrey de Genneville, between whom the estate of their father was divided; both these ladies dying without male issue, the lordship was, in 1286, claimed by Richard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, whose mother was their cousin-germain. But we are anticipating time.
He then turned to go, bowing again very slightly to Miss Vavasor. He was on the threshold of the door before Glencora's voice recalled him. "Oh my God!" she said, "I am hard, harder than flint. I am cruel. Burgo!" And he was back with her in a moment, and had taken her by the hand. "Glencora," said Alice, "pray, pray let him go. Mr Fitzgerald, if you are a man, do not take advantage of her folly."
So she received his indignation in silence, and began upon another subject. "What a fool you made of yourself last night, Burgo!" "Did I; more of a fool than usual?" "I believe that you will never be serious about anything. Why did you go on waltzing in that way when every pair of eyes in the room was watching you?" "I couldn't help going on, if she liked it." "Oh, yes, say it was her fault.
Then the gentleman from the hotel retreated down the hill, but Mr Palliser, during the rest of the interview, frequently fancied that he heard the man's footfall at no great distance. They continued to walk on up the hill very slowly, and it was some time before Mr Palliser knew how to repeat his offer. "So Lady Glencora is here?" Burgo said again. "Yes, she is here.
Nobody else will be here, unless, indeed, Mrs Marsham should be asked, unknown to myself." Then she sat herself down to think, to think especially about the cruelty of husbands. She had been told over and over again, in the days before her marriage, that Burgo would ill-use her if he became her husband. The Marquis of Auld Reekie had gone so far as to suggest that Burgo might probably beat her.
Lady Monk was older, and was able to regulate her feelings with more exactness. But Burgo, though he could not dance, went down into the dining-room and drank. He took a large beer-glass full of champagne and soon after that another.
Glencora no doubt told him how she had accepted that plain gold ring from Burgo Fitzgerald, and how she had restored it; but I doubt whether she ever told him of that wavy lock of golden hair which Burgo still keeps in his receptacle for such treasures.
But Burgo, as we know, had not "arranged it." It may be remembered that when Mr Palliser came back to his wife in the supper-room at Lady Monk's, bringing with him the scarf which Lady Glencora had left up-stairs, Burgo was no longer with her. He had become well aware that he had no chance left, at any rate for that night.
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