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Don't you feel as if you were rubbed the wrong way the moment you speak to them?" "I don't take to them," said Molly; "but I think they're pretty." "They're just like what O'Shanaghgan is now," thought Nora, who did not speak. "They are all prim and proper; there's not a single wildness allowed to come out anywhere." "But they're for all the world like anybody else," said Stephanotie.
Of course, it would be extremely nice for you to go; but I doubt for a single moment if it can be afforded." "Oh, daddy, daddy! please take my part!" cried Nora. "Please let me go, daddy oh, daddy!" She rushed up to her father, flung her arms round his neck, and burst into tears. Mrs. O'Shanaghgan rose from the table in cold displeasure. "Give me your uncle's letter," she said.
"I am going to Ireland to-morrow, Grace," said Mr. Hartrick to his wife that evening. "To Ireland!" she cried. "What for?" "I want to see my sister Ellen. I feel that I have neglected her too long. I shall run over to O'Shanaghgan, and stay there for two or three nights." "Why are you doing this, George?" said Mrs. Hartrick very slowly. Mr.
"Everything abominable and odious and horrible!" burst from Nora's lips. "Oh, don't keep me; don't keep me! I am smothered at the thought O'Shanaghgan is ruined ruined!" She ran away from her cousin out into the air. At headlong speed did she go, until at last she found herself in the most remote and least cultivated part of the plantation. Oh, to be alone!
I can make you no promises just now; but I respect you, my dear, and I will certainly do something what I cannot possibly tell you, for I must look into this matter for myself. But I will do this: I will go to O'Shanaghgan this week and see my sister, and find out from the Squire what really is wrong." "You will?" said Nora. She thought quickly.
"It was impossible, Nora," said her uncle. "What I did I did, as you express it, my dear, in the English way. The retrograde movement, Nora, could not be expected from an Englishman; and by-and-by you, at least, will thank me for having brought civilization to O'Shanaghgan." A moment later Mr. Hartrick went away, and Nora returned to the house. Mrs.
"You could not, Uncle George, if you knew father." "Well, I shall not ask any more. You really do want me to help?" "If you can; if it will not cost you too much money." "And you mean that your father is absolutely, downright poor?" "Oh, I suppose so. I don't think that matters a bit. We wouldn't like to be rich, neither father nor I; but we do want to keep O'Shanaghgan."
Hartrick was glad of this, for he would much prefer the O'Shanaghgans to have money of their own in the future, rather than to depend on him to keep up the old place. Inwardly the Squire was fretting and fuming a good bit at Mr. Hartrick really owning Castle O'Shanaghgan.
"Oh, I'll manage somehow," said Squire O'Shanaghgan; "and we have three months all but a week to turn round in. We'll manage by hook or by crook. Don't you fret your pretty little head. I wouldn't have a frown on the brow of my colleen for fifty O'Shanaghgans, and that's plain enough. I couldn't say more, could I?" "No, father dear," answered Nora a little sadly.
The cook, a very stately English woman, stared when she saw the young lady of the Castle appear in the great kitchen. "What is it, Miss O'Shanaghgan?" she said, gazing at Nora all over. What did this wild and eccentric girl want? How was it possible that she could demean herself by coming so freely into the servants' premises? "I want to know, Mrs. Shaw," said Nora, "if you will oblige me?"
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