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A knife lay between his wide-planted feet, and a visgy close behind him on a heap of disturbed sand. The boy came on them from the eastward, and his shadow fell across the hollow. "Hullo!" said one of the riders, looking up. It was Squire Moyle himself. "Here's the new Passon's boy!" All the riders looked up. The Whip looked up too, and turned to the old Squire with a wider grin than before.
The windows were connected by a narrow gallery in the thickness of the wall, communicating also with the minstrels' gallery, by means of which, and a ladder against the porch, Caspar could come and go unseen. As lord Herbert spoke, Mr. Moyle came up on the dais, and brought his report that mistress Amanda Fuller was not with the rest of the ladies. Lord Herbert turned to his wife.
From the cliffs of Antrim we can see on any clear day the Sea of Moyle and the bonnie blue hills of Scotland, divided from Ulster at this point by only twenty miles of sea path. The Irish or Gaels or Scots of 'Uladh' often crossed in their curraghs to this lovely coast of Alba, then inhabited by the Picts.
It was I made you bring Anty down here, wasn't it? when I was up in Dublin all the time." "But to go and put yourself in the power of sich a fellow as Moylan! I didn't think you were so soft." "Ah, bother, mother! Who's put themselves in the power of Moylan?" "I'll moyle him, and spoil him too, the false blackguard, to turn agin the family them as has made him!
We call her Finola because she shelters the rest of us under her wings when the Moyle gets tempestuous. You remember the story? 'Of course I do, said Hyacinth, who had learnt the tale of Lir's daughter as other children do Jack the Giant-Killer. 'And who is Miss O'Dwyer? 'Oh, she writes verses. Surely you know them? Hyacinth shook his head. 'What a pity! We all admire them immensely.
"You devils!" He tottered forward with the visgy lifted it was all he could manage at Squire Moyle. The old man let out an oath, and the curve of his whip-thong took the boy across the eyes and blinded him for a moment, but did not stop him. The grey horse swerved, and half-wheeled, exposing his flank.
Raymond brought a pile of his own books, and worked at them, scribbling notes in the margin or on long slips of paper, while the children learnt. A servant came in with a message from Squire Moyle, and he left them for a while. "I call this nonsense," said Honoria. "How am I to get these silly letters into my head?" Taffy was glad of the chance to show off. "Oh, that's easy.
No, no" this to the Bryanite "we'll go back. I'll show 'ee sport we'll hunt th' old Divvle by scent and view to-night. I'm Squire Moyle, ain't I? And I've a pack o' hounds, ha'n't I? Back, boys back, I tell 'ee!" Lizzie Pezzack swung her torch. "Back back to Tredinnis!" The crowd took up the cry, "Back to Tredinnis!"
And when Aed and Fiacra and Conn were lulled to sleep, Finola's notes grew more and more faint and her head drooped, and soon she too slept peacefully in the warm sunlight. But few were the sunny days on the sea of Moyle, and many were the tempests that ruffled its waters. Still keener grew the winter frosts, and the misery of the four white swans was greater than ever before.
Lindsay, member of parliament for the city, volunteered the perilous task of carrying a verbal message, from the Lord Provost to Colonel Moyle, the commander of the regiment lying in the Canongate, requesting him to force the Netherbow Port, and enter the city to put down the tumult. But Mr.
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