Ormond

nd silent, leaning both hands and his chin on his crutch. Then, looking up at

er, at all events," said Harry;

't see that it was and is Sir Ulick, and not her l

nded his guardian most warmly; he was certain of Sir Ulick's affectio

blind buzzard! as your want of conceit makes you, for which I like you the better, too - you don't see the reason why

Marcus in w

ld ask; and in that case the answer is -

nd humiliation. "Oh, sir, you would not be so ill-natured as to make a jest of me! - I know

that couldn't do the same b

- Marcus is heir to a large fortune - I have not

, if women are of my mind?" muttered Corny. "

of rivalling my friend

ur friend?" s

hall never complain - never blame him directly or indirectly; but don't let me be accused or suspected unj

u, I suppose,

d Harry, with surprise at the idea. "Do

e gone to England out of

kind friend in Lady Annaly - one who at least I might hav

good imperative mood, which I understand - be my friend - at once - or not at all - that's my mood. None of your if friends for me, setting out with a proviso and an excuse to be off; and may be when you'd call upon 'em at your utmost need, 'Oh!

ked yourself up into a passion a

had she, because she's an old woman and you a young man, to set up preachi

eacher, I ass

- was not her letter very

s very kind - w

life with my eyes open, nor never will - quite enough for

, not hers, sir: I dr

more about it. Pray, after all, Harry, fo

t you told me you k

heart; put me in mind, and may

first place, I am t

ad been myself; for I know what it is after one of them blind rages is over, and one opens one's eyes on the wrong one has done - and then such a cursed feel to be penitent in va

same; but to ease your conscience, it was certainly the luckiest turn ever happened him t

I shall all my life," said Harry. "One comf

for a man that couldn't be in a passion on a proper occasion. I'm passio

aid just now you

er a man would knock me down than stand smiling at me, as cousin Ulick did just now, when I know he could have kilt me; he is not passionate - he has the command of hims

odism

t your Lady Annaly was such a methodist - no methodist shall ever darken my doors, or lighten them either, with their new lights. New lights! new nonsense! - for

ting with his crutch, added, "Run to the head of the stairs, Prince Harry dear, and call a

it possible -

talking to me of possibilities, when 'tis a friend I am going to serve, and that friend as de

r rather was mounted, and they proceeded to one of the prettiest farms in the Black Islands. As they rode

ou. Patrick, give Prince Harry possession - with sod and twig. Here's the kay from my own hand, and I give you joy. Nay, don't deny me the pleasure - I've a right to it. No wrong to my daughter, if that's what you are thinking of - a clear improvement of my own - and she will have enough without it. Besides, her betrothed White Connal is a fat grazier, who will make her as rich as a Jew; and any way she is as generous as a princess herself. But if it pains you so, and weighs you down, as I see it does, to be under any o

cy worthy of the most polished, and little to have been expected from the barbarian mock-monarch, so touched our young hero's heart, so subjected his grateful s

d had the spirit of a prince. "King Corny, God bless him! couldn't go astray in his choice of a favourite - long life to him and Prince Harry! and no doubt there'd be fine hunting, and shooting, a

th him, and he was led by kind and good feelings to be more familiar and free with this man than he would have been with any other in the same rank of life. The poor fellow was ardently attached to him, and repeated, with delight, all the praises he heard of Master Harry, through the Islands. The love of popularity seized him - popularity on the lowest scale! To be popular among the unknown, unheard-of inhabitants of

she emptied the basket in haste, threw out a book, which Harry, though not much at this time addicted to reading, snatched impatiently, eager to know what book it was: it was one he had often heard of - often intended to read some time or other, but somehow or other he had never had time: and now he was in the greatest possible hurry, for the hounds were out. But when once he had opened the book, he could not shut it: he turned over page after page, peeped at the end, the beginning, and the middle, then back to the beginning; was diverted by the humour - every Irishman loves humour; delighte

about the book, and I'm very sorry I tumbled it out of the basket. That's all there is of

e characters, it did not fade from his imagination. He believed the story to be true, for it was constructed with unparalleled ingenuity, and developed with consummate art. The character which particularly interested him was that of the hero, the more peculiarly, because he saw, or fancied that he saw, a resemblance to his own; with some differences, to be sure - but young readers readily assimilate and identify themselves with any character, the leading points of which resemble their own, and in whose general feelings they sympathize. In some instances,

accomplished at any convenient period of his life, and become moral at the end of it, but he might begin by being an accomplished - blackguard. Blackguard is a harsh word; but what other will express the idea? Unluckily, the easiest points to be imitated in any character are not always the best; a

is suggest a thought derogatory to the reputation of the lively Peggy. She was a well-behaved, well-meaning, innocent, industrious girl - a good daughter, a good sister, and more than one in the neighbourhood thought she would make a good wife. She had not only admirers, but suitors in abundance. Harry Ormond could not think of her as a wife, but he was evidently - more evidently this day than ever before - one of Peggy's admirers. His heart or his fancy was always warmly susceptible to the charms of beauty; and, never well guarded by prudence, he was now, with his head full of Tom Jones, prone to run into danger himself, and rashly ready to hurry on an innocent girl to her destruction. He was not without hopes of pleasing - what young man of nineteen or twenty is? He was not without chance of success, as it is called, with Peggy - what woman can be pronounced safe, who ventures to extend to a young lover the encouragement of coquettish smiles? Peggy said, "innocent smiles sure," "meaning nothing;" but they were interpreted to mean something: less would in his present dispositions have excited the hero who imitated To

he, with a rose yet unfaded in his hand - a rose which he had snatched from Peggy Sheridan - took the path towards Moriarty Carroll's cottage. Moriarty, seeing him from a

. But looking in his face, he s

ls you,

heart," said Moriarty, pres

etter just now, I hope," said Ormond,

y, withdrawing his shoulder; and giving a jealous

- I'll be better by myself. It is not to your

ross Ormond's mind - he was determined

till I know what's

; adding, after a little pause, "there's no knowing

is in the case only," said Ormond,

I'll beg your honour to let me pass - I am

ut again, I shall want you

t, sir," replied Moria

or willing to carry a note for me?" As he spoke, Ormond produ

heart again," cried Mor

rty: upon my honour, till this instant, I did not know you loved the girl - from this instan

ting, but fear as instantly darkening h

as ever. Can you think me so wicked, so base, as to say, wife, if - no, passion might hurry me to

rty s

us, and that was my fault: I snatched it, and thus - thus," cried he, tearing the rose to pieces, "I sca

re scattered out of sight; then, as Ormond broke the stalk to pieces, and flung it

etter - but worse. So strange with me - I can't speak right

r fellow. Oh, if I ha

d I did!" said Moriarty. "I ask your honou

what? - You hav

n I said stab me to the heart again. Oh,

llow!" sa

ur honour, kindly

o himself, as he walked home, "which I neve

g to good fortune, not to prudence - to good feeling,

actively, perseveringly generous, in his conduct to him. With open heart, open purse, public overture, and pri

o much, and Lady Annaly too little, in his head - whether it was that King Corny's example and precepts were not always edifying - whether this young man had been prepared by previous errors of example and education - or whether he fell into mischief