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As I rode towards Kilcullen, I saw a crowd of the peasant-people assembled round a one-horse chair, and my friend in green, as I thought, making off half a mile up the hill. A footman was howling 'Stop thief! at the top of his voice; but the country fellows were only laughing at his distress, and making all sorts of jokes at the adventure which had just befallen.
Why, Kilcullen, what have you done with it?" "Mr Crockford has a portion of it, and John Scott has some of it. A great deal of it is scattered rather widely so widely that it would be difficult now to trace it. But, my lord, it has gone. I won't deny that the greater portion of it has been lost at play, or on the turf. I trust I may, in future, be more fortunate and more cautious." "I trust so.
The truth was, that Lord Kilcullen had thought that the shades of Grey Abbey would be too much for him, without some genial spirit to enlighten them: he was delighted to find that Mat Tierney was to be there, and was rejoiced to be able to convey him with him, as a sort of protection from his father's eloquence for the first two days of the visit.
Brigid put us in mind of the patron saint of Ireland; or to Kilcullen, where the brave Kildare pikemen routed General Dundas in 1798; and to others of the neighbouring places. We reviewed, too, every part of the famous Curragh itself, so full of memories glorious and sad of Irish history.
It was a fine, bright, April morning, though the air was cold, and the ground somewhat damp; so she put on her boa and strong boots, and sallied forth with Lord Kilcullen; not exactly in a good humour, but still feeling that she could not justly be out of humour with him.
Fanny persisted in declining to sing and Lord Kilcullen again sat down beside her. "Don't trouble yourself about them, Fanny," said he, "they're just fit to sing to each other; it's very good work for them."
"To tell the truth, my lord, I've a good deal that I wish to say: will it trouble you to listen to me?" "Won't to-morrow morning do?" "I shall leave Grey Abbey early to-morrow, my lord; immediately after breakfast." "Good heavens, Kilcullen! what do you mean? You're not going to run off to London again?" "A little farther than that, I'm afraid, will be necessary," said the son.
Fanny was on the point of saying something respecting her brother to Lord Kilcullen, which would have created a kind of confidence between them, but the bishop's glass of wine broke it off, and from that time Lord Kilcullen was forced by his father into a general conversation with his guests. In the evening there was music and singing.
"Pray remember," replied Lord Kilcullen, not at all disturbed from his equanimity, "that I have not proposed that you should pay my debts without knowing where the money went; and also that I have not yet asked you to pay them at all." "Who, then, do you expect will pay them? I can assure you I should be glad to be relieved from the honour."
He had, as the reader will remember, advanced a very large sum of money to Lord Kilcullen, to be repaid out of Fanny Wyndham's fortune, This money Lord Kilcullen had certainly appropriated in the manner intended by his father, but it had anything but the effect of quieting the creditors.
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