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Terence, on his return, had heard from his father that his Uncle, Tim M'Manus, had called very soon after the major had returned to his old home. He had been very friendly, and had been evidently mollified by Terence's name appearing in general orders; but his opinion that he would end his career by a rope had been in no way shaken.
On July 26th, O'Brien and his party first visited the village of Ballingarry, where he was joined by M'Manus, Doheny, Devin Reilly, and other prominent members of the Confederation. They took a survey of the village and its neighbourhood; addressed the crowd from the piers of the chapel gate, and slept in the house of one of the village shopkeepers.
Well, the regiment was one day drawn up for parade in the town of Banagher, and as M'Manus came down the lines he stopped opposite one of the men whose face, hands, and accoutrements exhibited a most woeful contempt of his orders. The fellow looked more like a turf-stack than a light-company man. "'Stand out, sir! cried M'Manus, in a boiling passion.
His patriotism was of too genuine a nature to be merged in his commercial success, and M'Manus readily abandoned his prospects and his position when his country seemed to require the sacrifice.
"'I must protest, said M'Manus, coloring up, 'that I cannot understand this gentleman's visit. "'It is a little affair I have to settle with him, said I, with a fierce look that I saw produced its effect. "'Then perhaps you would do me the very great favor to join him at dinner, said O'Grady. 'Any friend of Colonel M'Manus "'You are really too good, said I; 'but as an utter stranger
"'Shaugh, my boy, says he, he called me that way for shortness, 'dine with me to-day at Mosey's; a green goose and gooseberries; six to a minute. "'Who have you? says I. "'Tom Keane and the Wallers, a counsellor or two, and one M'Manus, from Dublin. "'The colonel? "'The same, said he. "'I'm there, Darby! said I; 'but mind, you never saw me before. "'What? said he.
He shared the fortunes of the insurgent leaders until the dispersion at Ballingarry, where he fought with conspicuous bravery and determination. He was the first to arrive before the house in which the police took refuge, and the last to leave it. The Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald, P.P., an eye witness, gives an interesting account of M'Manus' conduct during the attack on the Widow M'Cormack's house.
M'Manus was the first to speak in reply to the usual formality, and his address was as follows: "My lords I trust I am enough of a Christian and enough of a man to understand the awful responsibility of the question which has been put to me.
Instantly on discovering that the government were about to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, he took the steamer for Dublin, bringing with him the green and gold uniform which he owned in virtue of being a general of the '82 Club. In the same steamer came two detectives sent specially to secure his arrest in Dublin. M'Manus drove from the quay, where he landed, to the Felon Office.
"It was a cold rainy night in January, in the year '98, I took my place in the Limerick mail, to go down for a few days to the west country. As the waiter of the Hibernian came to the door with a lantern, I just caught a glimpse of the other insides; none of whom were known to me, except Colonel M'Manus, that I met once in a boarding-house in Molcsworth Street.
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