Neither Sir Thomas nor Sir Thomas's house had about them any of those interesting picturesque faults which are so generally attributed to Irish landlords and Irish castles.

He was not out of elbows, nor was he an absentee.

Castle Richmond had no appearance of having been thrown out of its own windows.

It was a good, substantial, modern family residence, built not more than thirty years since by the late baronet, with a lawn sloping down to the river, with kitchen gardens and walls for fruit, with ample stables, and a clock over the entrance to the stable yard.

It stood in a well-timbered park duly stocked with deer,--and with foxes also, which are agricultural animals much more valuable in an Irish county than deer.