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Why, then, you have the spirit of the old O'Shanaghgans in you." "Horses would not have kept me from you," said Nora. "I might have known as much. How I laughed when your mother brought in the telegram from your Aunt Grace this morning!
She had said that he had been very angry with her for marrying the Squire, but had confessed that at times he had been heard to say that the O'Shanaghgans were the proudest and oldest family in County Kerry, and that some day he would visit them on their own estate. "I have prevented his ever coming, Nora," said Mrs. O'Shanaghgan; "it would be such a shock to him.
"That we O'Shanaghgans are the proudest and oldest family in the county, and that there is scarcely an Englishman across the water who would not give all he possesses to change places with us." "You talk like a silly child," said Mrs. O'Shanaghgan; "and please remember that I am English." "Oh, mummy, I am so sorry!" said the girl.
You go into the cave, and you can walk in nearly half a mile; and then it takes a sudden turn to the right, and they say there's an entrance into another cave, and just beyond that there's a ghost supposed to be. Some people say it is the home of the O'Shanaghgans' Banshee; but whatever it is, I mean to see all about it." "Do you mean the Sea-Nymphs' Cave?" said Nora.
If she could only beg of him to lend her father a little money just to avert the crowning disgrace of all the O'Shanaghgans leaving their home because they could not afford to stop there, Nora thought, and the wild idea which had crept into her head gathered strength. "There is nothing for it; something desperate must be done," she thought. "Father won't save himself, because he does not know how.
A dark time is near, and we implore your help. Come, come, Banshee it is the O'Shanaghgans who want you. It is Nora O'Shanaghgan who calls you now." The sound of a laugh came from the darkness behind her, and the next instant the startled girl saw the big form of Andy Neil approaching. "Don't you be frightened, Miss Nora," he said. "I aint the Banshee, but I am as good.
No other place will suit him; he won't say a word; it's not the way of the O'Shanaghgans to grumble. He won't utter a word; he will go away, and he will die. His heart will be broken; he will die." "Nora, my dear child!" "It is true," said Nora. Her face was ghastly white; her words came out in broken sobs.
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.
Nora did not glance at her; she was past speaking. So much hung on this; all the future of the O'Shanaghgans; the Castle, the old Castle, the home of her ancestors, the place in which she was born, the land she loved, the father she adored all, all their future hung upon Nora's accepting the invitation which she had asked her uncle to give her.
"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.
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