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Groups of people, of all ranks, gathered stopped dispersed, talking of Sir Ulick O'Shane's bankruptcy their hopes their fears their losses their ruin their despair their rage. Some said it was all owing to Sir Ulick's shameful extravagance: "His house in Dublin, fit for a duke! Castle Hermitage full of company to the last week balls dinners the most expensive luxuries scandalous!"
"Sir," said the clerk, "it is a very sudden order for a very large sum." "True, sir but you see my power you know Mr. Ormond's handwriting, and you know Sir Ulick O'Shane's " "Mr. James," said the principal clerk, turning to one of the others, "be so good to hand me the letters we have of Mr. Ormond.
She saw herself surrounded by the young, the fair, and the gay, to whom Sir Ulick devoted his assiduous and gallant attentions; and though his age, and his being a married man, seemed to preclude, in the opinion of the cool or indifferent spectator, all idea of any real cause for jealousy, yet it was not so with poor Lady O'Shane's magnifying imagination.
Afterwards, during the whole that passed, Sir Ulick had watched the impression made upon her he had observed that it was not for Marcus O'Shane's safety that she was anxious; and he thought she had betrayed a secret attachment, the commencement of an attachment he thought it, of which she was perhaps herself unconscious.
The next letter was from Cornelius's banker, saying that the five hundred pound was lodged, ready. "All well." The army-agent wrote, "that he had commissions in two different regiments, waiting Mr. O'Shane's choice and orders per return of post, to purchase in conformity." "That's all well." General Albemarle's answer to Mr.
But now, when all obstacles seemed to vanish when his rival was no more when his benefactor declared his joy at being freed from his promise when he was embraced as O'Shane's son, he did not feel joy: he was surprised to find it; but he could not. Now that he could marry Dora, now that her father expected that he should, he was not clear that he wished it himself.
O'Shane on his guard that was all he meant." "Phoo!" said Cornelius O'Shane; but checking the expression of his contempt for the man, he made an abrupt transition to Connal's horse, which had just come to the door. "That's a handsome horse! certainly you are well mounted, Mr. Connal." O'Shane's elision of contempt was beyond Mr. Connal's understanding or feeling.
To Sir Ulick, his son and heir was his first great object in life; yet, though in all things he preferred the interest of Marcus, he was not as fond of Marcus as he was of young Ormond. Young Ormond was the son of the friend of Sir Ulick O'Shane's youthful and warm-hearted days the son of an officer who had served in the same regiment with him in his first campaign.
Both from a sense of justice to the poor people concerned, and from a desire to save Sir Ulick O'Shane's memory as far as it was in his power from reproach, Ormond determined to pay whatever small debts were due to his servants, workmen, and immediate dependents. For this purpose, when the funeral was over, he had them all assembled at Castle Hermitage.
Ormond, bearing his burden as if insensible of what he bore, walked onward, looking at no one, answering none, but forcing his way straight into the house, and on till they came to O'Shane's bedchamber, which was upon the ground-floor there laid him on his bed. The women had followed, and all those who had gathered on the way rushed in to see and to bewail.
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