This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1896 Excerpt: ... Epilogue To Lady Davern If you glance at this book, I know you will begin at the end. Well, this is the end of the story. As the brig was standing out to the open sea, and Sir Dominick was taking his last look at the hills of Wexford, he saw the smoke above the Wood of the Brambles. If you wanted to read about that fight, when Dromeen led the soldiers, and Shamus cut his way through a regiment, as the thickets were burning, you would have to grope in the foolish histories of that dangerous time. Shamus rallied the last rebels in the Mountains of Wicklow; and held his own till his followers decided to give him over to justice: then, after hanging as many as he could, he escaped to France, where the people took him for a professor from Oxford. Theophilus and the Rector were loved by all the peasants around them. Castle Desmond has a store of traditions of Sir Tim and his fighting: and you remember Sir Anthony Davern, that severe and morose magistrate, and friend of the Law. "In spite of everyone, I think there was good in my cousin Dom," be would say, "although he was thoughtless." Sir Tony was cheerful, until his wife, Agatha, died. THI END By the same Author. "at The Rising Of The Moon." "Father Mathew: His Life And Times." Some Press Opinions of " At the Rising of the Moon." "For literary capital, Mr Frank Mathew has a good deal of mother-wit, with much quiet humour, and a particularly intimate knowledge of his country. Nothing Irish seems alien to him; all the stories are marked by grace and moderation ol style."--Bookman. "The stories are full of the love of Ireland, but the love is spread so equally over landlords and moonlighters, and constables, and priests, and Protestant Rectors that it is very safe. They have performance as well as promise in them....
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