The views of the bridge, of the towers, and of the river, from this slope would make the fortune of the place in a land of peace and order.
A most original and delightful lady of the country lunched with us,--such a character as Miss Edgeworth or Miss Austen might have drawn.
Shrewd, humorous, sensible, fearless, and ready with impartial hand to box the ears alike of Trojan and of Tyrian.

She not only sees both sides of the question in Ireland as between the landlords and the tenants, but takes both sides of the question.

She holds lands by inheritance, which make her keenly alive to the wrongs of the landlords, and she holds farms as a tenant, which make her implacably critical as to their claims.

She mercilessly demolished in one capacity whatever she advanced in the other, and all with the most perfect nonchalance and good faith.
This curiously dual attitude reminded me of the confederate General, Braxton Bragg, of whom his comrades in the old army of the United States used to say that he once had a very sharp official correspondence with himself.

He happened to hold a staff appointment, being also a line officer.