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Updated: June 28, 2025
Lady Battledown makes all her governesses take the same name; she gives 5 pounds more a year for the purpose. Governesses shouldn't have too pretty a name; they shouldn't have a nicer name than the family. I suppose you heard from the Desmonds that I did not go back to England with them.
And the Desmonds continued in their persistent opposition to the English laws until the reign of Elizabeth.
It was a grown-up affair, and she had sent printed invitations to Egbert, Athelstane and Quenrede. The latter, who only knew the Desmonds slightly and was always overwhelmed in their presence, developed a sudden and acute fit of shyness and implored to be allowed to refuse. "If it had been the Browns' or Lawrences' I'd have loved it," she urged, "but you know, Mumsie, how Mrs.
Thus, finding Lenox established at the Desmonds, Norton called upon them soon after Honor's arrival.
He appears not to have had a seat in either House; but attended, on his own business, under the protection of his powerful friends and sureties. In pursuing to its close the war in Munster, we were obliged to omit the mention of an affair of considerable importance, which somewhat consoled the Catholics for the massacre at Smerwick and the defeat of the Desmonds.
But the habit of half a lifetime is not easy to break through; and I suppose that when two people marry they have to learn one another bit by bit, like a new language; except in such a rare case as the Desmonds, where love and understanding are not two things, but one, like the man and woman themselves. There . . did you ever guess I had thought all that about marriage!" She laughed contentedly.
"It is sword and bullet, I think, that are needed here, before plough and harrow, to clear away some of the curse. Until a few more of these Irish lords are gone where the Desmonds are, there is no peace for Ireland." "Humph! not so far wrong, I fear. And yet Irish lords? These very traitors are better English blood than we who hunt them down.
Every one knows that there never was a stouter or shrewder soldier than Davils; and the young Desmonds, I have heard him say many a time, used to look on him as their father. But he found out what it was to trust Englishmen turned Irish.
O'Brien of Inchiquin, Prince as he styled himself of Thomond, no longer contented with his principality of Clare, had thrown a bridge across the Shannon five miles above Limerick, and was thus enabled to enter Munster at his pleasure and spread his authority towards the south; while the M'Carties and O'Sullivans, in Cork and Kerry, were only not dangerous to the Earls of Desmond, because the Desmonds were more Irish than themselves, and were accepted as their natural chiefs.
But the silence and seeming ingratitude of the Desmonds vexed him; and he could not abide to hear the Irish rebellion mentioned without flying into a passion against the rebels, which every body knew was owing to the ill return he had received from that family.
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