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"I think, aunt, Lord Kilcullen might be satisfied with looking after himself. If it depended on him, he never had a kind word to say for Lord Ballindine." "But you know, Fanny," continued the aunt, "he knows everybody; and if he says Lord Ballindine is that sort of person, why, it must be so, though I'm sure I'm very sorry to hear it."
Fionn had his chief residence and fortress at Almhuim, now either the hill of Allen, near Kildare, or Ailinn, near old Kilcullen, where a great rath still remains, which was a residence of the ancient kings of Leinster.
But, much to his annoyance, his mistress again came on the tapis , together with the claret. "You and Kilcullen don't hit it off together eh, Ballindine?" said Mat. "We never quarrelled," answered Frank; "we never, however, were very intimate." "I wonder at that, for you're both fond of the turf. There's a large string of his at Murphy's now, isn't there, Dot?" "Too many, I believe," said Blake.
It was settled, however, that Mr. Jervis, Lord Cashel's agent, should receive full authority to deal summarily in all matters respecting the horses and their trainers, the house in Curzon Street, and its inhabitants, and all other appendages and sources of expense which Lord Kilcullen had left behind him; and that he, Kilcullen, should at once commence his siege upon his cousin's fortune.
"Gracious heavens! Does Lady Cashel really expect Mat Tierney to play la grace with the Miss O'Joscelyns? Well, the time will come to an end, I suppose. But in truth I'm more sorry for you than for any one. It was very ill-judged, their getting such a crowd to bore you at such a time," and Lord Kilcullen contrived to give his voice a tone of tender solicitude.
I do not wish to have bailiffs knocking at your lordship's door, and your servants instructed to deny me." "Upon my soul, you are too good." "At any rate," said Kilcullen, "you'll agree with me that this is no place for me to remain in." "You're quite at liberty to go," said the earl. "You were never very ceremonious with regard to me; pray don't begin to be so now. Pray go to-night if you like.
If your lordship can undertake to do so at once, I will undertake to hand you a correct list of the sums due, before I leave Grey Abbey. I presume you would not require to know exactly to whom all the items were owing." This effrontery was too much, and Lord Cashel was very near to losing his temper. "Upon my honour, Kilcullen, you're cool, very cool.
He is utterly, utterly smashed. If he got double the amount of Fanny Wyndham's cash, it could not keep him above water for more than a year or so; and then she must go down with him. I am sure the old fool, his father, does not half know the amount of his son's liabilities, or he could not be heartless enough to consent to sacrifice the poor girl as she will be sacrificed, if Kilcullen gets her.
Lord Kilcullen, when about to marry, would be obliged to cashier his opera-dancers and their expensive crews; and, though he might not leave the turf altogether, when married he would gradually be drawn out of turf society, and would doubtless become a good steady family nobleman, like his father.
"Do you mean me to believe," said Kilcullen, with a gentle laugh, "that you are contented to live and die in single blessedness at Grey Abbey? that your ambition does not soar higher than the interchange of worsted-work patterns with Miss O'Joscelyn?" "I did not say so, Adolphus." "What is your ambition then? what kind and style of life would you choose to live?
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