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Updated: June 5, 2025
Sir Hercules Langrishe, the friend and correspondent of Edmund Burke, is said to have accounted for the swampy condition of the Phoenix Park by saying "The English Government are too much engaged in draining the rest of the kingdom to find time to attend to it." Enough has been said to show that the process of which Sir Hercules spoke is still going on.
To be sure, the Dowager attached no importance to the name of Langrishe any more than the General did to that of Rooke. Mrs. Rooke gave a good many dances after Christmas, and Nelly was at them all. Sometimes Robin was there, sometimes that was not possible.
Godfrey Langrishe in his letters had not commented on these communications. "Let Godfrey be!" said the sister, who knew him with the thoroughness of a nursery companion. "He will do his own wooing. He would not thank us for doing it for him." All next day Nelly waited. After the very early morning she did not dare go outdoors lest he should come in her absence.
He would have to endure the looks she would send him from under her white eyelids, the looks of wistful entreaty. After all, he had not said he was going to do anything. He had implied it, to be sure, but he had not committed himself to anything very definite. Perhaps Nelly would not discover, for a time at least, the dangerous service Langrishe had gone on.
The General had known he was going away. He had known it before he received that letter, before he had seen it in the Gazette. He had known from the day the regiment had gone by without Captain Langrishe in his wonted place. He had felt with his arm about his girl's shoulders the sudden shock that had passed through her. So she had not known either. He had not prepared her.
The odd thing was that Nelly passed over her loss in silence, although she must have missed her blue ribbon, since without it her hair had become loose in the wind. At breakfast, when the servants had left the room, the General made a remark. "That young Langrishe sits his horse well," he said. "He's a good soldier, Nelly, my girl. A very good soldier, or I'm much mistaken."
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