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Sir Phelim's efforts to take Drogheda were ludicrously unavailing, and he had been forced to take his ragged rabble away without achieving anything. Regarded as an army it had one striking peculiarity there was not a single military man in it! Sir Phelim himself had been bred to the law; Rory O'Moore was a self-taught insurgent who had never smelt powder.
On a lofty crag, overlooking the hoarse Atlantic, stands "Denville's Shot Tower," a corruption by the peasantry of "D'Enville's Chateau," so called from my great- grandfather, Phelim St. Remy d'Enville, who assumed the name and title of a French heiress with whom he ran away.
The dying man's curse had it not been fulfilled? A new occupant for the old house was found within a week after Mrs. Ashleigh had written from London to a house-agent at L , intimating her desire to dispose of the lease. Shortly before we had gone to Windermere, Miss Brabazon had become enriched by a liberal life-annuity bequeathed to her by her uncle, Sir Phelim.
His face was three inches longer than usual, and the droop in his eye remarkably conspicuous. "No fear of him," said the father, "here's himself. Arrah, Phelim, what became of you last night? Where wor you?" Phelim sat down very deliberately and calmly, looked dismally at his mother, and then looked more dismally at his father. "I suppose you're sick too, Phelim," said the father.
Paddy fished for half a minute through the glove; and, after what was apparently a hard chase, brought up another guinea, which he laid down. "Come, Phelim!" said he, and his eye brightened again with a hope that Phelim would fail. "Good agin!" said Phelim, thundering down another, which was instantly subjected to a similar scrutiny. "You'll find it good," said Larry.
Despite his crime, he still had breeding left him, and he felt compelled to make his presence known. He knocked again. "Don't interrupt me, Phelim," she said; "this is my swan-song; listen;" and she began to sing. She sang bravely, at first, with her head held high, and then, suddenly, her voice began to falter. "Ah, Phelim, dear," she cried, "I've lost my love!
Where's the villain, Phelim?" "He's gone to America," replied the son* "The divil tare the tongue out o' myself, too! I should be puttin' him up to go there, an' to get money, if it was to be had. The villain bit me fairly." "Well, but how are we to manage?" inquired Larry. "What's to be done?"
It seems hardly credible that the 15,000 regular troops in the country at his coming should be mostly taken up with garrison duty, yet we cannot otherwise account for their disappearance from the field. He asked for 2,000 fresh troops, and while awaiting their arrival, sent a detachment of 600 men into Wicklow, who were repulsed with loss by Phelim, son of Feagh, the new Chief of the O'Byrnes.
Now, for all the peace of this holy island there hung over it an ever-present fear of which I learned when we spoke to Phelim concerning the treasure which we would leave in the care of the brethren when we went hence.
"Be the vestment, Sally, only that my regard an' love for you is uncommon, I'd break off the affair altogether, so I would." "An' why would you do so, Phelim O'Toole?" inquired the uncle. "Bekase," replied Phelim, "you came here an' made a show of me, when I wished to have no bruliagh, at all at all.
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