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"Labouchere came to see me this morning.... He proceeded to tell me that, on Sunday week last, Lord Carnarvon had met Justin MacCarthy and had confided to him that he was in favour of Home Rule in some shape, but that his colleagues and his party were not ready, and asked whether Justin MacCarthy's party would agree to an inquiry which he thought there was a chance of the Government agreeing to, and which would educate his colleagues and his party if granted and carried through.
Then, clearing the rope with a graceful bound, she turned to one of the girls. "Can you tell me, please, where Mrs. MacCarthy lives? Brida MacCarthy's mother?" With a second surprise on her freckled face, the child pointed to a fat, red-cheeked woman, who was cooling herself with a big palm-leaf fan, in a basement doorway just beyond.
"Thank you," was the polite response, and Polly descended the short flight of steps into the bricked area. The woman looked up expectantly. "I'm Polly May, of the hospital staff," the little girl announced modestly, "and Brida would like her kitten, please." The smile on Mrs. MacCarthy's face expanded into a big, joyous laugh. "Does she now? Moira! Katie! D'ye here that? Brida's sint f'r her cat!
We must, as Allison rightly maintains, have trained and skilled persons. How these are to be secured is a matter of detail, though no doubt of important detail; and it is one that the new generation will have to solve. What they will want, in any case, is government. MacCarthy's idea of anarchy is well, if he will pardon my saying so, it is hardly worthy of his intelligence.
The station and gravity of the one determines the orbit of the other, and the antagonism that keeps them apart also knits them together. There is no motion of MacCarthy's but I vibrate to it; and about my immobility he revolves. But both of us, as I am inclined to think, are included in a larger system and move together on a remoter centre.
MacCarthy brought into more vivid contrast the personal venom the ruthless hunger for vengeance and the humiliation of his enemies which came out with almost painful vividness from the speech to which we had just ceased to listen. Mr. Gladstone, sitting opposite, attentive and watchful, was evidently much pleased at the heartiness of Mr. MacCarthy's acceptance of his great measure.
"And at long last there was young Jack Leary, that had been all his life in old MacCarthy's stable, and he knew how the old man was bad off for a butler, and he made bold to ask for the place. 'If I make ye me butler, says the old man, 'will ye go into the cellar and bring the wine when I ask ye, and make no throuble about it?
It is for similar reasons that brave General MacCarthy's head was treasured by the Ashantees, and so on. Charms are not all worn upon the body, some go to the plantations, and are hung there, ensuring an unhappy and swift end for the thief who comes stealing.
'O missus, come up, come up, the maister is just miraculous among the chaney! I have been asked, since my friends became aware that I am perpetrating my reminiscences, whether I was going to write anything supplemental to Mr. MacCarthy's Priests and People, and Five Tears in Ireland. My reply was: 'Certainly not.
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