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So Miss Mohun's affairs were put in commission, Gillian taking care of them, and the two sisters were to go to Mrs. Craydon, once, as Marianne Weston, their first friend out of their own family, and now a widow with a house in London, well pleased at any recall of old times, though inclined, like all the rest, to speak of 'poor Ada.
I had just raised the cup of tea to my lips, amid warnings from the family, to take care or I would be captured, when a cavalryman galloped up the hill, and stopped in front of the door. "Look out, the Yankees are coming!" he cried. I glanced through the window, and recognized a man of Mohun's command, who also recognized me. "How near are they?" I said, attempting to swallow the burning tea.
But, in spite of visionary rents, and poor-rates sternly real, the Irish squire still clings to the exercise of that hospitality which has been an heirloom with the tribes since the days of Strongbow. One of my longest halting-places was at Ralph Mohun's, by whom, though personally unknown to him, I was made very welcome as a friend of Guy's.
They were half drunk with whisky, and maddened by the smell of blood; but so great was the terror of Mohun's name all recoiled when they saw him thus face to face, his sword bare and his eyes blazing. That momentary panic saved Clontarf. In a second Ralph had thrown him under the arch of a deep doorway, and placed himself between the senseless body and its assailants.
Mohun seemed no longer himself. Was the man riding beside me the old Mohun of 1863? Where was the gloomy misanthropy where the rollicking humor? They had quite disappeared. Mohun's glance was gentle and his countenance filled with a charming modesty and sweetness. His voice, once so cold, and then so hilarious, had grown calm, low, measured, almost soft.
Suddenly a cavalier on a black horse rushed by like the wild huntsman, and I recognized Mohun; who, spurring his animal to headlong speed, drove straight at the leader of the Federal cavalry, almost in contact with us. Through a rift in the smoke I caught a glimpse of Mohun's opponent. He was a man of low stature, but broad, heavy, and powerful.
It might be questioned whether Richard did not undergo more in watching little John de Mohun's endeavours at waiting than he would have suffered from doing it himself. And not a few dissatisfied glances were levelled at the favoured stripling, besides the literally as well as figuratively sour glances of Dame Idonea.
'Oh then, he will let you go, said Florence, 'people never consider when they mean no. 'No, Florence, said her brother, 'Uncle Mohun's "consider of it" is equivalent to Le Roi's "avisera." 'What is he saying? asked Lily, turning to listen. 'Oh, that my wig is in no ball-going condition. 'A wreath would hide all deficiencies, said Florence; 'I am determined to have you both.
Lee's, and was, in a manner, free of Miss Mohun's house; but he spent much of his leisure time in study, being now able to pay regularly for instruction from the tutor who taught at Mrs. Edgar's school. Maura asked him rather pertly what was the use of troubling himself about Latin and Greek, if he held himself bound to the marble works.
The lady's dress was cheap and faded and the gentleman's threadbare." "What names did they give?" "Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer, sir." Mohun's brow again contracted. "Well, go on," he said, "or rather, go back, Amanda. You say that they remained with you until the morning.
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