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The campaign of 978 was still more eventful: the Leinster men quarrelled with their Danish allies, who had taken their king captive, and in an engagement at Belan, near Athy, defeated their forces, with the loss of the heir of Leinster, the lords of Kinsellagh, Lea and Morett, and other chiefs.
It must have been dreadful to see; but Hester Lea was too much bent on her rights to feel a moment's pity; and she spoke on in a hard tone, with her eyes fixed on my brother's face. "But you failed to discover that she was rescued from the Indians; gave birth to me, your daughter, Hester; and only died two years ago." "You hear!
Within the following week the telephone was in place and although Ted had not minded his seclusion, or thought he had not, he suddenly found that the instrument gave him a very comfortable sense of nearness to his family and to the household at Pine Lea. He and Laurie chattered like magpies over the wire and were far worse, Mrs. Fernald asserted, than any two gossipy boarding-school girls.
A picturesque track it was, by the way; lying along the side of the beck and through the sweetest curves of the dale: but that day I thought more of the letters, that might or might not be awaiting me at the little burgh whither I was bound, than of the charms of lea and water.
"What's the matter?" Lea asked. The unlocked engine cover could have only one significance and he pushed it open, knowing in advance what he would see. The attackers had been very thorough and fast. In the short time available to them they had killed the driver and the car as well. Ruddy light shone on torn wires, ripped out connections. Repair would be impossible.
'Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther, she cries out to the Four Per Cents. 'Hug up close to me, you old fellows asleep in your graves; get under my lea. Let us fight it out together, the living and the dead! And now hear these abominable Four Per Cents behind their glass windows: 'No place for a church, they say. 'No place for the dead! Property too valuable. Move it up town.
Polly had leapt like a cat aboard the ferry punt and grasped the pole. Up came Uncle Jim spluttering and dripping. You know I got a weak chess!" The pole took him in the throat and drove him backward and downwards. "Lea go!" cried Uncle Jim, staggering and with real terror in his once awful eyes. Splash! Down he fell backwards into a frothing mass of water with Mr. Polly jabbing at him.
He was a thoroughly loyal and even enthusiastic Etonian; he satirises a caviller by putting into his mouth the abominable sentiment Ye bigot spires, ye Tory towers, That crown the watery lea, Where grateful science still adores The aristocracy. His genuine feeling is given in the lines on 'My old School':
As they crossed the Silver Lea and trudged over that familiar ground, where a fortnight since had been fought out the battle of the Cup, the wind fluttered past them in spasmodic gasps. "There 's trouble in the wind," said the Master. "Ay," answered his laconic son. All day there had been no breath of air, and the sky dangerously blue.
How strange! that I who had seen the very last remnant of the pleasantness of the meadows by the Lea destroyed, should have heard them spoken of with pleasantness come back to them in full measure.
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