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Updated: May 14, 2025
While the discussion was proceeding as to the mode in which this bold resolution should be most becomingly brought under Lord Kilgobbin's notice, a messenger on horseback arrived with a letter for McGloin. The bearer was in the Kilgobbin livery, and a massive seal, with the noble lord's arms, attested the despatch to be from himself.
At Lord Kilgobbin's request, that they would not leave him to take his wine alone, they drew their chairs round the dining-room fire; but, except the bright glow of the ruddy turf, and the pleasant look of the old man himself, there was little that smacked of the agreeable fireside. 'What has come over you girls this evening? said the old man.
This was also Lord Kilgobbin's belief. 'The man has no friends, or even warm followers, down here. It was the merest accident first led him to this part of the country, where, besides, we are all too poor to be rebels. It's only down in Meath, where the people are well off, and rents are not too high, that people can afford to be Fenians.
'Not much change here, cried Lockwood, as he strode into the little sitting-room and sat down. 'I miss the old fellow's picture, that's all. 'Ah! by the way, said Walpole to the landlord, 'you had my Lord Kilgobbin's portrait up there the last time I came through here. 'Yes, indeed, sir, said the man, smoothing down his hair and looking apologetically.
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