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Lord Longford told us of Colonel Hercules Pakenham, at the siege of Badajos, walking with an engineer. A bomb whizzed over their heads and fell among the soldiers, as they were carrying off the wounded. When the Colonel expressed some regret, the engineer said, "I wonder you have not steeled your mind to these things. These men are carried to the hospital, and others come in their place.
I came here to my own home to the house where my father died thinking that perhaps here at least I should find peace," and her voice shook as with tears "that here, at least, the old walls might give me shelter and protection! but even here you followed me with your paid spy, Marius Longford and I have found myself surrounded by your base tools almost despite myself!
"Sometimes to the satiated female mind, overwrought with social dissipation, there comes a strange longing for peace! for the scent of roses! for the yellow shine of cowslips! for the song of the mating birds! for the breath of cows!" Mr. Marius Longford smiled, and picked a tall buttercup nodding in the grass at his feet.
They will enjoy seeing the old place, and country air is such a boon to London people! Good-bye!" and here she turned to Marius Longford "I'm afraid I haven't read any of your books! anyway I expect they would be too deep for me. Wouldn't they?" "Lord Roxmouth has been good enough to express his liking for my poor efforts," he replied, with a slight covert smile "I believe you know him?"
Longford explained with civil obsequiousness that Sir Morton Pippitt had certainly once 'ground bones, but that he had 'retired' from such active service, while still retaining the largest share in the bone business.
Nor was the Government anxious to check this spirited impulse. In Wexford alone over 60,000 acres had been discovered by the lawyers to belong to the king, and of these a large portion were now settled with English undertakers. In Longford, Leitrim, Wicklow, and many other parts of Leinster, it was the same.
Part of Longford and South Leitrim were taken from Tiernan O'Ruarc, lord of Breffni, and an angle of Meath, including Athboy and the hill of Ward, was given him instead.
Young Walter now Sir Walter Scott has been quartered at Longford, and is now going to Dublin: he dined here on Saturday, and was just the same as when we saw him in 1825. Little fair-haired Willy, nothing daunted by the nearly seven-feet-high major in full uniform, marched up to him and patted his knee, and in return the major patted his head.
We were under this uncertainty, when an escort with an ammunition cart passed through the village on its way to Longford. It contained several barrels of powder, intended to blow up the bridges, and to stop the progress of the enemy. One of the officers of the party rode up to our house and offered to let us have the advantage of his escort.
He held land, but at such a rent that if living by farming alone he would not be able to pay it. He gave some instances of boycotting. One was that travelling in the neighboring county of Longford he had occasion to get a smith to look at his horse's shoes, and was asked for his Land League ticket. On saying he had none, the smith refused to attend to the horse's shoes.
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