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In process of time, thanks to his intimate knowledge of drill and musketry exercise, the excellent Mulcahy, wearing the corporal's stripe, went out in a troopship and joined Her Majesty's Royal Loyal Musketeers, commonly known as the 'Mavericks, because they were masterless and unbranded cattle-sons of small farmers in County Clare, shoeless vagabonds of Kerry, herders of Bally-vegan, much wanted 'moonlighters' from the bare rainy headlands of the south coast, officered by O'Mores, Bradys, Hills, Kilreas, and the like.
That nobleman, in order to give his troops leisure to recruit from their sickness and fatigue, left the main army in quarters, and marched with a small body of fifteen hundred men into the county of Ophelie against the O'Connors and O'Mores, whom he forced to a submission: but, on his return to Dublin, he found the army so much diminished, that he wrote to the English council an account of its condition, and informed them, that if he did not immediately receive a reënforcement of two thousand men, it would be impossible for him this season to attempt any thing against Tyrone.
He treated us as cousins no more he would act in the same manner by any of the Miss O'Mores of Ballymakilty, nay, by Jane Northover herself. We did not allow for Irish manner. 'If so, he had no right to do so. I shall never wish to see him here again. 'No, mamma, he did not know the folly he had to deal with. Next time I meet him, I shall know how to be really indifferent.
At the arrival of Mountjoy the English power in Ireland was at about the lowest ebb it ever reached under the Tudors. Ormond, the Lieutenant-General of the kingdom, had recently been taken captive by the O'Mores in Leinster, by whom he was held for an enormous ransom. Success, with all its glittering train, seemed to have gone bodily over to Tyrone.
'Oh, I am glad; I could not rest if he had not been thanked. And can anything be done for him? What is he? I thought he was a gentleman. Maurice smiled, and Mr. Kendal answered, 'Yes, he is Mr. Goldsmith's nephew, and I am pleased to find that he is a connexion of your brother. 'One of the O'Mores, cried Albinia. 'Oh, Maurice, is it really one of Winifred's O'Mores? 'Even so, replied Mr.
It was plain that it was not Maurice that she was thinking of, but the caricature. Her sister should have been sacred from derision. 'We must remember, she said, 'that it was only through Maurice's meddling that we became aware of the existence of this precious work. It is not as if ho had shown it to any one. 'How many of the O'Mores have made game of it? asked Sophy, bitterly.
To be sure, he was a little taken aback when he found I was one of the Protestant branch, of the O'Mores, but a countryman is a countryman in a barbarous land, and he asked me to call upon him, and offered to do me any service in his power. 'I am sure he would. He is the kindest old gentleman I know, exclaimed Genevieve.
It's the O'Mores. The lightest one is his wife. Is that her sister? No, it is his! They say he has a title in England." Whispers ran fast and audible. As the crowd pressed around the party an opening was left beside the fish sheds. Edith ran down the dock. Henderson sprang after her, catching her arm and assisting her to the street. "Up the shore! This way!" she panted.
'I do believe it is solely for the O'Mores that you are making a duty of implacability! 'It is a duty not to run from one's word, and debase oneself for one's own advantage. 'One would think some wonderful advantage was held out to you. 'The pleasantest hours of my life, murmured he sadly, under his breath.
Suppose we go down to the swamp and I'll show you what is left of the flower-room that Terence O'More, the big lumber man of Great Rapids, made when he was a homeless boy here. Of course, you have heard the story?" "Yes, and I've met the O'Mores who are frequently in Chicago society. They have friends there. I think them one ideal couple."
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