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"Oh! yes," continued he, "I see it all now: you have ways and means I no longer object I'll write no, you'd write better yourself to King Corny, for you are a greater favourite with his majesty than I am. Fare ye well Heaven bless you! my boy," said Sir Ulick, with warm emphasis. Sir Ulick put a purse into Ormond's hand, and left him.
I question whether they'd give themselves, without liking, to any White Connal in their own rank, at the first offer, for a few sheep, or a cow, or to have their own way." Such was the summing up of the topics of invective, which, during a two hours' walk, had come round and round continually in Ormond's indignant fancy.
The only events which marked these last nine years from Ormond's removal till his reappointment were the surprise of Carrickfergus by a party of unpaid soldiers, and their desperate defence of that ancient stronghold; the embassies to and from the Irish Catholics and the court, of Colonel Richard Talbot; and the establishment of extensive woollen manufactories at Thomastown, Callan, and Kilkenny, under the patronage of Ormond.
He laid the check within easy reach of Miss De Ormond's hand. "Business is business," said he. "We live in a business age. There is my personal check for $10,000. What do you say, Miss De Ormond will it he orange blossoms or cash?" Miss De Ormond picked up the cheek carelessly, folded it indifferently, and stuffed it into her glove. "Oh, this'll do," she said, calmly.
Besides all this, she had greater opportunities of making advances to him than to any other: she lived at the Duke of Ormond's, at Whitehall, where Hamilton, as was said before, had free admittance at all hours: her extreme coldness, or rather the disgust which she showed for her husband's returning affection, wakened his natural inclination to jealousy: he suspected that she could not so very suddenly pass from anxiety to indifference for him, without some secret object of a new attachment; and, according to the maxim of all jealous husbands, he immediately put in practice all his experience and industry, in order to make a discovery, which was to destroy his own happiness.
What influence the sister's charms might have to increase Ormond's admiration of the brother, we shall not presume to determine; but certainly he liked Sir Herbert Annaly better than any young man he had ever seen. Sir Herbert was some years older than Ormond; he was in his twenty-seventh year: but at this age he had done more good in life than many men accomplish during their whole existence.
Oh, I comprehend it all now," said Marcus, with his sneering look and tone: "no doubt you had good reasons." Poor Peggy blushed the deepest crimson. "I understand it all now," said Marcus "I understand you now, Harry." Ormond's anger rose, and with a look of high disdain, he replied, "You understand me, now! No, nor ever will, nor ever can. Our minds are unintelligible to each other."
He would probably, had his temper been as hot as in the days when he diced with Grammont and threatened to cut the old Duke of Ormond's throat, have voted for running any risk however desperate. But age, pain and sickness had left little of the canting, bullying, fighting Dick Talbot of the Restoration. He had sunk into deep despondency. He was incapable of strenuous exertion.
Then he turned away, and watched us from the shingle as we took up Ormond's litter, and the last that we ever saw of him was a tall lonely figure which vanished into the gray smoke of the river as we plodded up the climbing trail. Still, even now, that lonely figure rises up before me. "Old Hector tells strange things when the fit takes him.
After escaping with Lord Thomond from the scene of Ormond's capture, his first act on reaching Cork was to conclude a month's truce with Florence McCarthy. This plot, so characteristic of Carew and of the turn which English history was about to take in the next reign, deserves to be particularly mentioned.
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