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Drumgold is making a motion in Chancery about it, to break the sale, and the tenants are in open rebellion and swear they'll murther a receiver, if one is sent down among them. Indeed, they came in such force into Galway during the assizes, and did so much mischief, that the cases for trial were adjourned, and the judges left with a military escort to protect them.
This little gentilesse pleased, and atoned for the popery of my house, which was not serious enough for Madame de Boufflers, who is Montmorency, et du sang du premier Chrétien; and too serious for Madame Dusson, who is a Dutch Calvinist. The latter's husband was not here, nor Drumgold, who have both got fevers, nor the Duc de Nivernois, who dined at Claremont.
"It's just as Billy Drumgold told him once: 'Burridge, he says, 'you've got everything in this store that belongs to a full-rigged ship 'cept one thing. 'What's that? Burridge asks. 'A second-hand pulpit. 'Got that too, he answered, and takes him upstairs, and there he had one sure enough." "Well," I said, "what was he doing with it?" "Danged if I know. He had it all right.
I was just beginning to creep into acquaintance by means of Colonel Drumgold, a very high man, Sir, head of L'Ecole Militaire, a most complete character, for he had first been a professor of rhetorick, and then became a soldier. And, Sir, I was very kindly treated by the English Benedictines, and have a cell appropriated to me in their convent.
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