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He obeyed the lady's summons, and returned to the house. Mrs. M'Crule had not altered in disposition, though her objects had been changed by marriage. Having no longer Lady O'Shane's quarrels with her husband to talk about, she had become the pest of the village of Castle Hermitage and of the neighbourhood the Lady Bluemantle of the parish.
Ormond still remonstrating on the cruelty of leaving him in utter darkness, and calling it blindness, and assuring Mrs. M'Crule that he had not the slightest conception of what the danger or the emergency to which she alluded might be, or what little Tommy could have to do with it, the lady condescended, in compliance with Mrs. M'Greggor's twitch behind, to stay and recommence her statement.
Harry should know any thing at all about it, sure." Meantime, Mrs. M'Crule was working against little Tommy with all her might. Some of the lady patronesses were of opinion, that it would be expedient in future, to confine their bounty to the children of protestants only. Mrs.
M'Crule being one of his majesty's very active justices of the peace, riding about, and up and down, ma'am, scouring the country, sir, you know, and having informers, high and low, bringing us every sort of intelligence; I say, my dear Lady Annaly, ma'am, you would, if you only heard a hundredth part of what I hear daily, tremble your ladyship would tremble from morning till night."
M'Crule, "I do wonder to hear you treat this matter so lightly you, from whom I confess I did expect better principles: 'sit on the same bench! easily said; but, my dear young lady, you do not consider that some errors of popery, since there is no catholic in the room, I suppose I may say it, the errors of popery are wonderfully infectious." Mrs.
M'Crule, that he could not think it becoming or gentlemanlike to desert a child whom he had undertaken to befriend that, whatever the child had the misfortune to be born, he would abide by him; and would not add to his misfortunes by depriving him of the reward of his own industry and application, and of the only chance he had of continuing his good education, and of getting forward in life. Mrs.
Tommy, with this excitation, and being a quick, clever little fellow, soon got to the head of his class, and kept there; and won all the school-prizes, and carried them home in triumph to his grandame, and to his dear Moriarty, to be treasured up, that he might show them to Mr. Ormond at his return home. Dr. Cambray was pleased with the boy, and so was every body, except Mrs. M'Crule.
M'Crule, begin with the thousands already in existence; and of those thousands, why not begin with little Tommy?" "It is no use!" cried Mrs. M'Crule, rising from her seat in the indignation of disappointed zeal: "Jenny, pull the bell for the car Mrs.
M'Crule, who had been deputed by one of the absent ladies to act for her, was amazingly busy, visiting all the patronesses, and talking, and fearing, and "hoping to heaven!" and prophesying, canvassing, and collecting opinions and votes, as for a matter of life and death.
M'Crule, a man whom you may remember to have seen or heard at the bottom or corner of the table at Castle Hermitage, one of the Cromwellians, a fellow with the true draw-down of the mouth, and who speaks, or snorts, through his nose. What with marriages and separations, the business of the nation, my bank, my canal, and my coal-mines, you may guess my hands have been full of business.
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