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She must e'en have what she longs for, if you, or I, or both of us, should have to go above stairs and put our necks into my Lord Cornwallis's noose." "Now, by heaven, Jack Ireton, 'tis you who are the true lover and the gentleman; and I am naught but a selfish churl with my face in my own trencher!" he burst out, wringing my hand yet again.
At the date of Cromwell's departure when Ireton took command of the southern army there remained to the Confederates only some remote glens and highlands of the North and West, the cities of Limerick and Galway, with the county of Clare, and some detached districts of the province of Connaught.
That night He permitted the tired V.A.D. to sleep in the strength of His everlasting arms. Some few days later a letter arrived for Margaret from Hadassah Ireton. It contained interesting and surprising news.
Mr Ireton Todd is a good host, and has tracked him here, without even waiting to take off his fancy-dress." "What man do you mean?" "I mean the man with comically ill-fitting clothes you saw running across the ploughed field. Hadn't you better go and investigate him?
Circumstances as well as inclination led him to become an Independent: his marriage with Cromwell's sister, and the appointment to be one of the Commissioners to execute the office of Chancellor, perhaps also his appointment to the Wardenship, all tended to draw him to the side of Ireton and the Protector.
Then he roared at the soldier standing guard at the house door below: "A mount for Captain Ireton and be swift about it!" He held me in talk till the horse was fetched, happily doing most of the talking himself, and when I was in the saddle gave me a hearty God-speed.
"Captain Ireton?" he said; by which I guessed that one of my capturers had run on ahead to make report. "The same," I replied. "And you are the son of Mr. Justice Roger Ireton, of Appleby Hundred?" "I have that honor." He gave me his hand most cordially. "You are very welcome, Captain; Davie is my name. I trust we may come to know each other better.
But Captain Falconnet and Colonel Tarleton did their earnest best to make a rebel of me out of hand." "Ah? But the proof of all this, Captain Ireton." "The best I can offer is the present fact of my coming to place myself at your Lordship's disposal, being moved thereto by your Lordship's own desire expressed in an order sent some weeks since to Sir Francis Falconnet."
He refused to have it renewed; and, as there could be no deputy where there was no principal, Lambert's appointment of deputy was in consequence revoked. But Mrs. Ireton was not content with this triumph over her rival. She married Fleetwood, obtained for him, through her father's interest, the chief command in place of Lambert, and returned with him to her former station in Ireland.
"Before you go, bring me the bottle of pine-apple rum I opened yesterday. I should like Mr. Ireton and his friends to taste it. It is in the lower cupboard. Oh! you haven't got the key then I must have it, I suppose. How provoking!" she added, pretending to rummage her pockets; "one never can find a thing when one wants it." "Never mind it, my dear Mrs.
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