he left him whom they had cheered, before he had time to reply; and joining the impatient Lord Adelm, they proceeded along the shore together.

There was a magic in the name of the Macarthies that operated like a spell upon the ideas and feelings of O'Leary, and drew him from the remembrance of his own griefs. General Fitzwalter had probably discovered this, for he often had recourse to it in moments when the wandering mind of the schoolmaster be came immersed in recollections which were the sources of his hallucination. It now had its wonted effect; and O'Leary, as he left the castle gates, with his usual short heavy step, and his hands clasped behind his back, murmured to himself:

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My genealogical history of the Macarthies, in troth; and never tould me a word since he came of the Ogygia of the, great O'Flaherty, nor the Histoire

d'Irelande, by Abbé O'Gaghehan: how could he, and he in jeopardy of the Crawleys? And my codices sent to the Lord-Deputy, that's the Lord-Lieutenant; and troth, I think they'll astonish him. And the Bhan Tierna, after all, at the castle of them Dunores, after keeping out of their way, and then circumventing the Crawleys: aye,' still on the necks of the Butlers,' Dioul! and carrying off the great iady to herself, when it's what she couldn't help appearing before her; and letting herself be taken, and turning bad to good, always after her ould fashion. A Macarthy in the halls of the Fitzadelms: Bachal Essu! Wonders will never cease!

Turne quod optanti divum promittere nemo Auderet, volvenda dies en attulit ultro.'

And to see her standing in the midst of them Boddie Sassoni, just like a young scion of an old oak on the Boggras, flou

rishing lonely and green among the scraws and briars that have sprung up in a night saison, like mushrooms."

While O'Leary was thus soliloquizing his way to the DUNORE ARMS, where a crowd was assembled, relating and listening to the extraordinary events that had taken place at the castle, the two adventurous fellow travellers were pursuing their walk up and down the sea-shore, Lord Adelm Fitzadelm, occupied with himself and his own views, as those usually are who have long engrossed the world's attention, and have become the spoiled children of society, was eager to pour the confidences of his self-love into his companions patient ear; and taking his arm, as they passed through the postern gate, he entered at once upon the history of his feelings and of his life since they had parted at Court Fitzadelm.

"I am ordinarily but little influenced,"

he observed," by the ebb and flow of joy or sadness, which govern the capricious tide of human affections in the everyday children of the world: yet I am glad, sincerely glad to see you here glad that it may be in my power to return some part of the hospitable rites which, as a stranger, I received at your hands; and happy that my timely presence has been the means of saving you from at least a temporary inconvenience, and rescuing you from some intrigue of my mother's friends, the Crawleys, which might have involved you in transient vexations, though eventually they must have fallen of themselves into insignificance.

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"I am not quite so certain of that," returned General Fitzwalter: "had they succeeded in shutting me up at the sent moment, they might have crossed me in pursuits, to myself, at least, big with importance. They might have

succeeded in throwing suspicion on my character, which, at a future moment, might have invalidated my testimony, when all but honour will be at stake. Their motives of action are, however, still a mystery."

To me it seems impossible," replied Lord Adelm, "that you could come into the sphere of intrigue of these reptiles. There is a sort of poetical elevation in your character, your profession, or rather your vocation, that places you so far out of the reach of the meddling little faction of an Irish district. The admiral of the gallant fleet of Martingaria, the general in chief of the guerrilla troops of the mighty Cordilleras, a warrior, a patriot, in a word, You in the power of the Crawleys! This is a solecism not easily understood! and

• Comes not within the prospect of belief."

"You measure my character by the