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For an eminently readable and all things considered a wonderfully impartial account of this movement, the reader cannot do better than consult Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's "Four Years of Irish History," which has the immense advantage of being history taken at first hand, written that is by one who himself took a prominent part in the scenes which he describes.
And Sir Gavan preceded his son into the guard-room on the left of the vaulted entrance, walking heavily, as one who bears an unaccustomed burden upon his shoulders. Yet when he spoke again his voice had its accustomed steadiness. "No one has seen her since ten of the sundial. It is now noon, and the alarm-bell has been ringing this half-hour." Constans felt something tighten at his own throat.
Nearly all who took part in it Gavan Duffy, John Mitchell, Meagher, Dillon, Davis himself were very young men, many fresh from college, all filled with zeal for the cause of liberty and nationality. The graver side of the movement only showed itself when the struggle with O'Connell began. At first no idea of deposing, or even seriously opposing the great leader seems to have been intended.
The girl poured out all her artless tale how she had been awake night after night, waiting for the day he should come. Then she told him how the heiress had praised his pluck and strength. "And oh! Gavan, I was so proud, I could have hugged her!" Thus she rattled on, while he, because it was his nature found it no trouble to reply in kind, with a good imitation of sincerity.
Sir Gavan was not to be seen, and Constans, after inquiring for him through a fruitless quarter of an hour, entered the main house and sought the fighting platform on its roof. Why had no lookout been stationed here? Surely an oversight. He gazed eagerly about him.
"You have searched the enclosure?" he faltered. "Every nook and corner," returned Sir Gavan. "Tennant, with a dozen men, is now beating the upper plantations." Constans thought guiltily of that cleverly concealed gap in the palisades just beyond the intake of the Ochre brook.
It seems a dreary outlook, doesn't it? Now go, and remember that I do not forgive easily. I had built such castles, Gavan, and now " She slipped quietly from the room, and was gone. Gavan Blake drove home, feeling a trifle uneasy. He had expected some sort of outburst, but the curious way in which she had taken it rather non-plussed him. "She won't stick a knife in herself, I suppose," he mused.
The journalist whom I regard as having exercised the most fateful influence on the destinies of Ireland was Charles Gavan Duffy, the founder and first editor of the Nation, a newspaper of which it was truly and finely said that it brought a new soul into Erin. Among its contributors, who afterwards added lustre to the journalism of the United States, was John Mitchel.
We should have been leagues away in the sun's eye by now, only that a peevish boy would have his way." "And this this is also true?" said Sir Gavan, and it seemed that the preceding silence had been very long. "It is true." She had answered quietly, almost mechanically, but the heart of the Lady Rayne thrilled to the new note in her child's voice.
The Court at Ballarook was over, and Gavan Blake turned his horses' heads in a direction he had never taken before along the road to Kuryong. As he drove along, his thoughts were anything but pleasant.
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