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But the Confederates, under Sir James Dillon, and Dr. O'Kelly, the heroic Archbishop of Tuam, moved by the pitiful appeals of the Sligo people, boldly endeavoured to recover the town. They succeeded in entering the walls, but were subsequently repulsed and routed.
This suggested a personal aspersion on my character. "Not allus," I murmured. "You don't know what love is," said Miss Sellars. "You're not old enough." The O'Kelly had passed on to Sullivan's "Sweethearts," then in its first popularity. "Oh, love for a year a week a day!
Then you and the Signora could marry and there would be an end to the whole trouble." "From a strictly worldly point of view," replied the O'Kelly, "it certainly would be; but Mrs. O'Kelly" his voice took to itself unconsciously a tone of reverence "is not an ordinary woman. You can have no conception, my dear Kelver, of her goodness.
She would go back broken-hearted but repentant to the tight-rope; he would return a better but a blighted man to Mrs. O'Kelly and the Western Circuit. This would be their last evening together on earth. A fresh bottle would be broached, and the guest or guests called upon to assist in the ceremony of renunciation; glasses full to the brim this time.
I'd have died happy, just smothered in loveliness!" would return the O'Kelly; and he and the Signora would rush into each other's arms, and the sound of their kisses would quite excite the little slavey sweeping down the stairs outside.
Most unfortunate under the circumstances." I could quite imagine it. "But I'm glad ye've come," said the O'Kelly. "I had a notion ye did something foolish that evening, but I couldn't remember precisely what. It's been worrying me." "It's been worrying me also, I can assure you," I told him; and I gave him an account of my Wednesday evening's experience.
He absolutely fell in love with Fanny Wyndham, though her twenty thousand pounds was felt by him to be hardly enough to excuse him in doing so, certainly not enough to make his doing so an accomplishment of his prudential resolutions. What would twenty thousand pounds do towards clearing the O'Kelly property, and establishing himself in a manner and style fitting for a Lord Ballindine!
I cursed the luck that had directed our footsteps, but the next moment, lacking experience, was inclined to be reassured. "Me dear Paul," said the O'Kelly he laid a fatherly hand upon my shoulder "there are fair-faced, laughing women sweet creatures, that ye want to put yer arm around and dance with." He shook his head disapprovingly.
For eleven o'clock two four-wheeled cabs had been ordered, one to transport the O'Kelly with his belongings to Hampstead and respectability; in the other the Signora would journey sorrowfully to the Tower Basin, there to join a circus company sailing for the Continent. I knocked at the door some quarter of an hour before the appointed hour of the party.
With Kildare were the Lords of Tyrconnell, Sligo, Moylurg, Breffni, Oriel, and Orior; O'Farrell, Bishop of Ardagh, the Tanist of Tyrowen, the heir of Iveagh, O'Kelly of Hy-Many, McWilliam of Mayo, the Barons of Slane, Delvin, Howth, Dunsany, Gormanstown, Trimblestown, and John Blake, Mayor of Dublin, with the city militia.
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