The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago

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Excerpt: ...she sealed the packet and had just written the address, when, with a tap at the door, Sir Archy entered, and approached the table. With a tact and delicacy he well understood, Sir Archy explained the object of his visit-to press upon Kate's acceptance a sum of money sufficient for her outlay in the capital. The tone of half authority he assumed disarmed her at once, and made her doubt how far she could feel justified in opposing the wishes of her friends concerning her. "Then you really desire I should go to Dublin, " said she. "I do, Kate, for many reasons-reasons which I shall have little difficulty in explaining to you hereafter." "I half regret I ever thought of it, " said Kate, speaking her thoughts unconsciously aloud. "Not the less reason perhaps for going, " said Sir Archy, drily, whileat the same moment his eye caught the letter bearing Mark O'Donoghue's name. Kate saw on what his glance was fixed, and grew red with shame and confusion. "Be it so then, uncle, " said she, resolutely. "I do not seek to know the reasons you speak of, for if you were to ask my own against the project, I should not be able to frame them, it was mere caprice." "I hope so, dearest Kate, " said he, with a tone of deep affection- "I hope so with all my heart, " and thus saying, he pressed her hand fervently between his own and left the room. CHAPTER XXVI. A LAST EVENING AT HOME. With the experience of past events to guide us, it would appear now that a most unaccountable apathy existed in the English Cabinet of the period, with regard to the plan of invasion meditated against Ireland by France, nor is it easy to determine whether this indifference proceeded more from ignorance of the danger, or that amount of information concerning it, which disposed the Minister to regard it as little important. From whatever cause proceeding, one thing is sufficiently clear-the emissaries of France pervaded the country in every part without impediment or...