Mr.Brooke himself is a wealthy man, at the head of the most important firm of wine-merchants in Ireland, and he has repeatedly spent on the property more than he took out of it.
The house of Sir Thomas Esmonde, M.P., was pointed out to me from the road.

"Sir Thomas is to marry an heiress, sir, isn't he, in America ?" asked an ingenuous inquirer.

I avowed my ignorance on this point.

"Oh, well, they say so, for anyway the old house is being put in order for now the first time in forty years." We reached Arklow in time for luncheon, and drove to the large police barracks there.

These were formerly the quarters of the troops.