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Dublin at the present day is a splendid city for old ghosts to wander in without having their corns trodden on or their susceptibilities injured. Phyl had come to Dublin to live with the Hennesseys in Merrion Square. "Never shall my door be shut on you except behind your back," Hennessey had said, and he meant it.
Hadn't he a fine house in Merrion Square and a wife who would have treated the girl like a daughter? "Well, I don't know," said he. "It's not for me to dispute the wishes of a client, but I've known Phyl since she was born and I've known her father since we were together at Trinity College and I'd have taken it more handsome if he'd left the looking after of her to me."
Then she was going back to Merrion and she hoped Cecily was coming with her. He Harry would not be there anyhow! "Certainly not," he agreed. "But what's the matter, Madame Zabriska? You don't complain that I didn't accept that I couldn't fall in with my cousin's peculiar ideas?" "Oh, you can't get out of it like that! You know that isn't the point." "What in the world is then?" cried Harry.
Butt, the great advocate, taking care that it should all be consecutive and clear with a due crescendo of interest. In October, 1862, it appeared Lady Wilde was not in the house at Merrion Square, but was away at Bray, as one of the children had not been well, and she thought the sea air would benefit him. Dr. Wilde was alone in the house. Miss Travers called and was admitted into Dr.
You coming long? Whisper, who the sooty hell's the johnny in the black duds? Hush! Sinned against the light and even now that day is at hand when he shall come to judge the world by fire. Pflaap! Ut implerentur scripturae. Strike up a ballad. Then outspake medical Dick to his comrade medical Davy. Christicle, who's this excrement yellow gospeller on the Merrion hall? Elijah is coming!
Tyrone House is now the Education Office, and Mornington House, where Wellington's father resided, and where or at Dangan for it is a doubtful point the duke was born, is also used for government purposes. The great squares of Dublin are St. Stephen's Green, Rutland, Mountjoy, Merrion and Fitzwilliam Squares.
In the centre of Merrion Square was a fountain of very ambitious expense and design, erected to the honor of the duke and duchess of Rutland, a lord and lady lieutenant. Mr.
But no! even Spiritualism, to which not a few of his brother novelists succumbed, whilst affording congenial material for our artist of the superhuman to work upon, did not escape his severest satire. Shortly after completing his last novel, strange to say, bearing the title 'Willing to Die, Le Fanu breathed his last at his home No. 18, Merrion Square South, at the age of fifty-nine.
What an excellent dialogue of the dead might be written between Buonaparte and Themistocles! Ages ago I sent Bracebridge Hall to Merrion Street for you: have you got it? Next week another book will be there for you an American novel Mrs.
Gilbert and Henry had explored the Combe and the dreadful swamp of slums reaching up from Ringsend and spilling almost into the gardens of Merrion Square.... "But don't they know about this?" Gilbert asked in amazement. "I mean, haven't they any eyes ... or noses?" "They'll deal with that after they've got Home Rule," Henry answered miserably.
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