Barrington

therefore, Barrington and his sister and Withering sat in deep consultation on Josephine's fate and future, a hasty summons arrived from Dublin, requiring the ins

s eating a hasty luncheon before departure, he sneered at the rabble, and scoffed at the insolent pretension of their demands. Neither Barrington nor Withering sympathized with the spirit of the revolt, and yet each felt shocked at the tone of haughty contempt Stapylton assumed towards the

moves you here," said Miss Dinah. "You will not entertain the ques

as he spoke. "I suppose this is the case where the blood of a

ord applied to our own peop

t is wonderful how a phrase can seem

and nodded his concurr

ffort to smile very far from successful. "Will not Miss Joseph

ed Dinah. "My niece needs not to be told

will ask you to ascribe some, at least, of my bitterness to the sorrow I feel at being t

season too, I trust," said Barrington. "Y

said Stapylton, with a sad smile towards Miss Dinah; and though the speech was made in

uppose?" said Withering, to relieve

te,-after midn

k the next

iled already; the others will

nah,-"he will, I suppose, accompany t

your compliments upon the first opp

to forget that the angry passions of a starving multitude are not

ope you cannot mean that there exists anything

e exists a people like this, and who at every fresh outbreak of a war with us have carried into the new contest all the bitter animosities of

h, Di

r Stapylton has thought to tax me with

vanquished by you," sai

ess of his interruption, "that no similarity of name will make you b

how I am to win your good opinion, except it be by tearing o

ton," said Barrington, "or you would scarcely ha

ylton, affecting a light and easy manner; "so I must do my best to be successful. May

urt you, and you hurt nobo

campaign. Mr. Barrington, will you grant me two minutes of conversation in your

onor you intend us, I feel still there is much to be explained on both sides. We know scarcely anything of each other, and though I am conscious of the generosity which prompts a man with your prospects and in your position to ally himself wi

dulous or indifferent, or it might imply that the issue was one which need not have been introduce

: it is rather my province to ask for information regarding

of us are devoid of certain family circumstances which it would be more agreeable to deal with in confidence; and though, perhaps, I am as fortunate as most men in this respect, there are one or two small matters on which I would ask your

all his excitement only aggravated by the well-bred composure of the

t least are requisite for consideration? We ought to ascertain something at least of my granddaughter's own sentiments,-I mean

for her dower, would be no more in my eyes than Miss Barrington as she sat at breakfast this morning. Nor is there a

f. You are an eldest son?" said he; and he blu

an onl

f the awkward moment. "No cutting down one's old ti

there is no

Is he still living

as been dead

here is it? Are you Wiltshire or Staffordshire? Who are your uncles and aunts, and your good friends that you pray for, and where do you pray for them?" A thousand questions of this sort arose in his mind, one only more prying and impertinent t

ners than it ever occurred to him before to do, and he felt

t his watch, and g

, eh?" cried Peter, ove

d,-"I believe, Mr. Barrington,-I hope, at least,-I have satisfactorily answered the questions which, with every right on your part, you have deemed proper to put to me. I cannot but feel how painful the task has been t

," said Barrington, hurriedly

mencement of these pleasanter relations. I own to you I am the more eager on this point, that I perceive your

aid Barrington, boldly, "that my sister and I c

ing. "But I must start; as it is, I shall be very late in Dublin. Will you present my

nt to the drawing-room, wo

taste not to present myself. Tell Withering that if he writes, Manchester will find me. I don't suspect he need give himself any more trouble about establishing the proofs of marriage. They will scarcely contest that point. The great question will and must be, to ascertain if the Company will cease to oppos

ore you go? It would come with so much

ll not condescend to a hypothetical conclusion, though I have told him over and over again we want a settlem

said Miss Dinah, as her brothe

t for it, either. By the way, Withering, while it is fresh

or me, Peter?" sa

with me I know not how many polite

this wide dispensation of fav

n charged with them all. You could not expect a gentleman so natural

ou have not forgiven the haughty aristocra

words as his never fell from

in Barrington. "I can answer fo

at Major M'Cormick's butler, or boatman, or bailiff, whichever he be, has been up here with a present of seakale this morning. Give him something as yo

a custom that begins in the East and goes round the whol

om be, Aunt Dinah?" ask

of, child, pertaining to the days when men