We arrived about midnight at Brookhill, where I was made acquainted with all that had occurred at Cashel.
The history was more melancholy than our own.

My absence was used as an argument, sincere or pretended, against any effort in that town.

Mr.
O'Brien, in ignorance of whom to apply to, took counsel with one man at least, since accused of the darkest treachery.

Others, from whom I had different hopes, shrank from an encounter which, at other times, they seemed to long for as the dearest blessing Heaven could bestow.

There no clergymen interfered--the people were left to act for themselves; but it must be admitted that the actual people never had an opportunity of proving their courage.