Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 5, 2025
But, if you can't carry a sword any longer, why it must mean that the Master of us all has another post for you. And now, why didn't you come to Sherwood Square?" "I couldn't, with this in suspense," Langrishe stammered. "It is most kind of you to come to see me." "My dear boy," the General put his hand on Langrishe's shoulder, "you must come, with this in suspense.
"Well, my lad," the General said, taking the uninjured left hand in a cordial grip. "And how do you feel?" Langrishe looked up at him with shy eyes. "To tell the truth, Sir Denis, not very cheerful. I have been, in fact, keeping company with the blue devils pretty well since I came home. You know " "Yes, I know. We must hope for the best.
He did not glance at Captain Langrishe, but he knew quite as well as if he had that the colour came again to his cheek, that the brown eyes looked unhappily conscious. "I have met Miss Drummond several times," he answered. "Ah, you must dine with us one evening." Young Langrishe looked at him in a startled way.
Nelly's flush, the shy, burning look which Langrishe sent her from his dark eyes, were enough for the two principals. For the rest, all seemed to be of the most ordinary. No one could have supposed that for the two persons mainly concerned this was the most wonderful Christmas Day there ever had been since the beginning. During lunch Langrishe talked mainly to the General.
In the last of his published letters, written to Sir Hercules Langrishe, in the year before the rebellion, the year of his own death, he said that "Ireland, locally, civilly, and commercially independent, ought politically to look up to Great Britain in all matters of peace or war; in all those points to be guided by her: and in a word, with her to live and to die."
He dreaded, for one thing, going back to London where Nelly might hear news of Godfrey Langrishe. To be sure, he had acted entirely for her happiness, yet he had an idea that Nell might be angry with him for keeping things from her if she found out that Langrishe's regiment was engaged in the deadly frontier war.
I never would agree to it; I used to say: 'Let it be till the children are old enough to choose for themselves. I wish I had taken a stronger stand. I only wished for your happiness, Nell. I always liked poor Langrishe, and felt I could trust him with even what I held dearest on earth. I did my best for you, Nell.
It was when he felt this that he had written to Captain Langrishe, saying nothing to her about it, stealing out, in fact, at night to post the letter secretly, he whose correspondence, such as it was he was no great penman had always lain in the letter-basket on the hall table for the servants to scrutinise the addresses if they would before it was posted.
You admit that you govern that island, not as you govern England and Scotland, but as you govern your new conquests in Scinde; not by means of the respect which the people feel for the laws, but by means of bayonets, of artillery, or entrenched camps." Edmund Burke, writing to Sir Hercules Langrishe, in 1792, said: "The original scheme was never deviated from for a single hour.
He followed the maid through the clean, orderly little house, every inch of it shining with the perfection of cleanliness, to the study at the back which opened on the garden. Captain Langrishe was sitting in a chair in a dejected attitude at the moment the General first caught sight of him. He sprang to his feet, turning red and pale when he saw who his visitor was.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking