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But is it natural, is it possible, that this Sir Ulick O'Shane could so easily part with Harry Ormond, and thus "whistle him down the wind to prey at fortune?" For Harry Ormond, surely, if for any creature living, Sir Ulick O'Shane's affection had shown itself disinterested and steady.
Cornelius O'Shane's will, which Sir Ulick blamed Harry for not mentioning in the first letter, was found to be at his banker's in Dublin.
As the men filled up his grave, one of them said, "There lies the making of an excellent gentleman but the cunning of his head spoiled the goodness of his heart." The day after the funeral an agent came from Dublin to settle Sir Ulick O'Shane's affairs in the country. On opening his desk, the first thing that appeared was a bundle of accounts, and a letter, directed to H. Ormond, Esq.
The admiration he felt for O'Shane's generous conduct, and the self-approbation he enjoyed in consequence of his own honourable firmness, had a great effect in strengthening and forming his character: it also rendered him immediately more careful in his whole behaviour towards Miss O'Shane. He was prudent till both aunt and niece felt indignant astonishment.
"Poor gentleman! he has had a deal of trouble and no help for him," said the man. "Better tell him plain," whispered the next. "Master Harry, Sir Ulick O'Shane's trouble is over in this world, sir." "Is he " "Dead, he is, and cold, and in his coffin this minute and thanks be to God, if he is safe there even from them that are on the watch to seize on his body!
As Moriarty was trying to raise his head, O'Shane uttered some words, of which all that was intelligible was the name of Harry Ormond. His eye was fixed on Harry, but the meaning of the eye was gone. He squeezed Harry's hand, and an instant afterwards O'Shane's hand was powerless. The dearest, the only real friend Harry Ormond had upon earth was gone for ever!
"We are too long, Lady O'Shane," added he, "standing here like lovers, talking to no one but ourselves awkward in company." "Like lovers!" The sound pleased poor Lady O'Shane's ear, and she smiled for the first time this night Lady O'Shane was perhaps the last woman in the room whom a stranger would have guessed to be Sir Ulick's wife.
For the first time in his life he heard good sense from the voice of benevolence he anxiously desired that she should go on speaking, and stood in such an attitude of attentive deference as fully marked that wish. But at this moment Lady O'Shane's footman came up with a message from his lady; her ladyship sent to let Lady Annaly know that breakfast was ready.
Connal of Glynn; but the aunt seemed so averse to the match, and expressed this so openly, that some people began to think it would be broken off; others, who knew Cornelius O'Shane's steadiness to his word of honour, were convinced that Miss O'Faley would never shake King Corny, and that Dora would assuredly be Mrs. Connal.
Lady O'Shane's large fortune had cleared off all debts, and had set Sir Ulick up in a bank, which was in high credit; then he had shares in a canal and in a silver mine he held two lucrative sinecure places and had bought estates in three counties: but the son did not know, that for the borrowed purchase-money of two of the estates Sir Ulick was now paying high and accumulating interest; so that the prospect of being called upon for ten thousand pounds was most alarming.
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