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I continued with him for about a year and a half, when who should return to our neighborhood but Pat Frayne, the redoubtable prototype of Mat Kavanagh in "The Hedge School." O'Beirne, it is true, was an excellent specimen of the hedge-schoolmaster, but nothing at all to be compared to Frayne.
At the period of the Union, the two most distinguished were Dr. O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath, an ex-priest, and Dr. Young, Bishop of Clonfert, a former fellow of Trinity College. As a Bible scholar, Dr. Young ranked deservedly high, but as a variously accomplished writer, Dr. O'Beirne was the first man of his order.
Only young Nicholas O'Beirne listened intently to the explanation which he gave of one of them.
O'Beirne, master of the! distinguished school of Portora at Enniskillen; the other from Sir William Betham, one of the soundest and most learned of our Irish Antiquaries. Both gentlemen differ in their opinion respecting the antiquity of the Donagh; and, as the author is incompetent to decide between them, he gives their respective letters to the public. ""Portora, August 15, 1832.
To evade the difficulty, old O'Beirne bade Dan fetch a mug for a drop of poteen, and meanwhile said to the stranger: "Sit you down, sir, and take a taste of the fire. Where might you be thravellin' from this day?" "I was livin' over at Innislone," said the old man, sitting down on a creepy stool. "Musha, then, you didn't ever come that far all on ind sure it's miles untould."
One evening Miss O'Beirne invited some friends I was particularly glad to see three daughters of my dear Sir John Malcolm, all very fine young women, with fine souls, and vast energy and benevolence, worthy of him. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept. 27. I send you some Spanish books which I bought, with one eye upon you and one upon Rosa.
Nearly four years, he had explained, must elapse before the crowning height of the B. A. Degree could be won, and it was only just possible that he might manage to tramp back on a visit meanwhile, during some Long Vacation. This doubtful chance was cold comfort for that ardent scholar Nicholas O'Beirne, who grieved more than anybody else.
O'Beirne, Miss Honora Edgeworth, Miss Lucy Edgeworth, Miss Ruxton, Mrs. Ruxton. Return to Edgeworthstown Literary work and reading: Early Lessons, Harry and Lucy Walter Scott and Joanna Baillie Death of Lord Londonderry Visit to Scotland Edinburgh: Evening at Sir Walter Scott's Sir Walter Scott, Lady Scott, and Lockhart A fortnight at Abbotsford.
"By the powers," O'Beirne exclaimed, springing forward, "a foul stroke! By G d, a foul stroke! He was disarmed. "Have a care what you say!" Payton answered slowly, and in a terrible tone. "You'd do better to look to your friend for he'll need it." "It's you that struck him after he was disarmed!" Morty cried, almost weeping with rage. "Devil a bit of a chance did you give him! You "
Once he took a notion that the butler, who had been friendly within limits for the sake of that father who had met his man in Tralee churchyard wished to say something to him. But at the critical moment Morty O'Beirne popped up from somewhere, and Darby sneaked off in silence. The Colonel disdained to ask what was afoot, but he thought that he would give Morty a chance of speaking.
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