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O'Connor, thanking him for his punctuality, requested him to come into his study for a moment, when, with a melancholy collectedness, he proceeded to make arrangements for our witnessing his will. The document was a brief one, and the whole matter was just arranged, when the two O'Gradys crept softly into the room. 'So! last will and testament, said the elder.
M'Donough? and upon what grounds, if you please? said he. 'Certainly he does not, replied O'Connor; and, turning to M'Donough, he added, 'pray let there be no unnecessary delay. 'There is no objection, then, said Fitzgerald. 'I object, said the younger of the O'Gradys, 'if nobody else will.
I felt, however, that the difficulty at least of the task which I had to perform would be in some measure mitigated by the arrival of two relations of O'Connor upon that evening. 'It is very fortunate, said O'Connor, whose thoughts had been running upon the same subject, 'that the O'Gradys will be with us to-night; their gaiety and good-humour will relieve us from a heavy task.
The O'Gradys DID come, but their high and noisy spirits, so far from relieving me, did but give additional gloom to the despondency, I might say the despair, which filled my heart with misery the terrible forebodings which I could not for an instant silence, turned their laughter into discord, and seemed to mock the smiles and jests of the unconscious party.
"Confess you're at fault, d n you!" "I am at fault for once." "Good," replied the squatter complacently. "Now I'll give you the key. Prescott considered that the terms of sale included the tank, the liability being still on the O'Gradys; while they imagined that the whole transaction was taken off their hands.
Kavanagh tells it to me, is a most striking illustration. "The O'Grady of Kilballyowen," as his title shows, is the direct representative, not of any Norman invader, but of an ancient Irish race. The O'Gradys were the heads of a sept of the "mere Irish"; and if there be such a thing past, present, or future as an "Irish nation," the place of the O'Gradys in that nation ought to be assumed. Mr.
If the truth must be told, Prescott tried to do a sharp thing, under the cloak of an oversight; and the O'Gradys checkmated him with a d d sight sharper thing. In this way. Their last action, while the station remained in their power, was to transfer the tank to the Department, on condition that a section of land should be reserved round it.
I have resolved not to fire at Fitzgerald that is, to fire in such a direction as to assure myself against hitting him. Do not say a word of this to the O'Gradys. Your doing so would only produce fruitless altercation; they could not understand my motives. I feel convinced that I shall not leave the field alive. If I must die to-day, I shall avoid an awful aggravation of wretchedness.
The O'Gradys damned her for a troublesome hag, and passed on with O'Connor, but I remained behind for a moment.
"'O'Grady, at your service. "'Any relation of the counsellor? said I. 'They're all one family, the O'Gradys. I'm Mr. O'Shaughnessy, from Ennis; won't you introduce me to the ladies? "While the ceremony of presentation was going on I caught one glance at M'Manus, and had hard work not to roar out laughing.
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