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Martha Corkle expresses her opinion freely upon this subject, and I must confess to being a willing listener, for she does not gossip, she portrays, and often with a masterly touch. The woes of her countrywoman, the Ponsonby's housekeeper, often stir her to the quick. The Ponsonby household is perhaps one of the most "difficult" on the Bluffs, because its members are of widely divergent ages.
She was like a child bubbling over with happiness, gay as a lark, as unlike her usual self in behavior as her modish appearance was unlike that of Simeon Ponsonby's self-denying wife. "Of course she won't mind; why should she?" he decided, and yet determined to put off making his announcement till after lunch.
After we got back I spent half-an-hour with a gentleman who knows the country about Youghal, which I propose to visit to-morrow, and who saw something of the recent troubles there arising out of the Plan of Campaign, as put into effect on the Ponsonby property. He is of the opinion that the Nationalists were misled into this contest by bad information as to Mr. Ponsonby's resources and relations.
'No, ma'am, it hardly would, he answered, gravely. 'I will try what can be done, said Mary, 'unless you would speak to Mr. Ponsonby yourself. He looked inquiringly at Mr. Ponsonby's figure some paces distant, and shook his head. 'I will try, repeated Mary; and then she added, 'These grand hill-tops and blue sky almost make a church
A very beautiful young woman was reflected in old Mother Ponsonby's small looking-glass, a face of character and spirit, in spite of its regularity. "There, admire yourself!" exclaimed Polly, thrusting a hand mirror into her sister's grasp. "I don't believe you ever look at your profile or the back of your head!
He isn't at all young but he's very fascinating." "Stephen Shaw!" repeated Miss Ponsonby faintly. "So Stephen Shaw is home again!" "Why, I suppose you would know him long ago," I said, remembering that Stephen Shaw's youth must have been contemporaneous with Miss Ponsonby's. "Yes, I used to know him," said Miss Ponsonby very slowly.
Wellington is merely a hero, like any other man. The Scots Grays, the Life Guards, Maitland's and Mitchell's regiments, Pack's and Kempt's infantry, Ponsonby's and Somerset's cavalry, the Highlanders playing the bagpipes under the shower of canister, Ryland's battalions, the fresh recruits who could hardly manage a musket, and yet held their ground against the old bands of Essling and Rivoli all this is grand.
"Pardon me, madam: the fact is," continued Seagrove, "that, as I always have to back Ponsonby's horses, he thought it right that, in this instance, I should back him: he required special pleading, but his uncle tried him for the capital offence, and he was not allowed counsel.
Ponsonby's select party. But I really wanted you. You are more au fait as to the society here than the Ponsonbys and Dynevors. Ah! when does that come off? 'What is to come off? 'Miss Ponsonby and Mr. Dynevor. What a good creature he is! 'I cannot see much likelihood of it, but you are more on the scene of action.
Ford looked paler and paler, and while Louis said he would go and inquire for him at Miss Ponsonby's, offered to go down to the Consul's to see if he had arrived there in the meantime.
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