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He could not afterwards remember any thing very striking or very solid that had been said, but all was agreeable at the moment, and there was great variety. Ormond's self-love was, he knew not how, flattered.
Ormond's imagination took a rapid flight on Dora's side of the question, and he finished with the conviction that she was "a sacrifice, a martyr, and a miracle of perfection!" "Blame you, Dora!" cried he, "blame you! No I admire, I esteem, I respect you. Did I say that I blamed you? I did not know what I said, or what I meant."
The Earl of Arran, who was desirous of playing his best, conducted his Royal Highness to his sister's apartments: she was lodged at court, at her father's, the Duke of Ormond's; and this wonderful guitar was lodged there too.
He had kept it even in the midst of a sudden shock given to his Vice-royalty by Charles himself. Without Ormond's knowledge, Charles had been trafficking for months with the Confederate Irish Catholics through another plenipotentiary.
Ormond's answers, and her account of all that had passed during his absence, increased his anxiety. His indignation was roused by the insult which Virginia had been offered by the strangers who had scaled the garden-wall.
Changing the subject, she would have resumed with him her familiar, playful tone; but all chance of her ever triumphing over Ormond's head or heart was now at an end: so finished the third of his three weeks' fancies.
This action was the virtual close of Ormond's military career; he never after made head against the Parliamentary forces in open field. Ormond sailed again for France, before the end of 1649, to return no more until the restoration of the monarchy, on the death of the great Protector.
The fair, well-fenced, and well-cultivated land of Leix was cruelly ravaged immediately after Ormond's release the common soldiers cut down with their swords "corn to the value of 10,000 pounds and upwards," and the brave chief, Owny, son of Rory, having incautiously exposed himself in an attack on Maryborough, was, on the 17th of August, killed by a musket shot.
What were the words of the charm? That is a secret which shall never be known to the world. The only point which it much imports the public to know is probably already guessed that the letter did not contain a refusal, nor any absolute discouragement of Ormond's hopes.
The second clerk seeing great concern in Ormond's countenance, added, "But Sunday, you know, is in their favour, sir; and Monday and Tuesday are holidays: so they may stand the run, and recover yet." With the help of this gentleman's thirty thousand, they might have recovered, perhaps but Mr. Ormond would scarcely have recovered it.
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