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His duplicity and dissimulation were fully made known to Cromwell and Ireton by a letter of the king to his wife, which they intercepted; and they made up their minds to more decided courses.
In the wreck, he had succeeded in saving not only his own life, but the life of a young man named Ireton. Ireton had never forgotten the debt, and now, in the package which Henry had brought over from England, had endeavoured to repay it.
At the request of the officers, Cromwell had been lately appointed general of the horse, and, at Cromwell's request, Ireton was made commissary-general under him. Journals, vii. 421. bodies of horse; he put himself at their head; he called on them to follow him; he assured them that one more effort would secure the victory. But the appeal was made in vain.
But it's better to have the bride without the weddin' dress, than the weddin' dress without the bride." At this moment, Saint Sepulchre's clock struck six. "Close the wicket, Austin," vociferated Ireton, in an authoritative tone. "Good bye!" cried Jack, as if taking leave of his mistresses, "to-morrow, at the same time." "We'll be punctual," replied Mrs. Maggot. "Good bye, Jack!
Michael Ireton had listened to all that the excavator had to tell and had held his tongue on the subject of Mr. Amory's expedition; the psychical part of it would probably have called forth much derision and scoffing. Hadassah ended her letter by congratulating Margaret on the fact that the treasure, whether it was great or small, did exist, that it was an actual fact.
Godwin remarks in particular that, as Ireton, who penned the Proposals, was "the most inflexible Republican that ever existed," his self-repression in drawing up such a document, accepting restored Royalty, and casting away the chance of a Republic, must have been colossal.
We pressed forward in silence through the shadowy labyrinth of the wood for a time, but at the crossing of a small runlet where we would stop to let the horses drink, Tybee burst out a-laughing. "'Tis as good as a play," he said. "Three several times I've had to change my mind about you, Captain Ireton, and I'm not cock-sure I have your measure yet.
You know nothing of what the country suffered. You know nothing of the sacrifices that man has made for its good. Were not Cromwell and Ireton accused by their own party of favouring the man Stuart?
"Let me tell you, sir, had she ever a blush of saving pride, Margery Stair or Margery Ireton, if you like that better would kill you with her own hand rather than have it said her husband died upon a gallows!" A sudden light broke in upon me and I went blind in the horror of it. "God in Heaven!" I gasped; "'twas you, then? I do believe you poisoned me in that dish of tea you sent me last night!"
In Ireland the contest was destined to drag out another campaign, before the walls of the two gallant cities, Galway and Limerick. Limerick was the first object of attack. Ireton, leaving Sankey to administer martial law in Tipperary, struck the Shannon opposite Killaloe, driving Castlehaven before him.
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