It was then I saw the Cloistered House within and learned what was afoot." "In the Earl's carriage indeed--and the Earl ?" "He was in Ireland, burrowing among those tarnished baubles, his titles, and stripping the Irish Peter to clothe the English Paul." "He means to make Hamley his home?
From Ireland these furnishings come ?" "So it seems.

Henceforth the Cloistered House will have its doors flung wide.

London and all the folk of Parliament will flutter along the dunes of Hamley." "Then the bailiff will sit yonder within a year, for he is but a starved Irish peer." "He lives to-day as though he would be rich tomorrow.

He bids for fame and fortune, Davy." "'Tis as though a shirtless man should wear a broadcloth coat over a cotton vest." "The world sees only the broadcloth coat.

For the rest--" "For the rest, Faith ?" "They see the man's face, and--" His eyes were embarrassed.