CHAPTER IV .-- His Rival makes his Appearance, and its Consequences.
-- A Sapient Project for our Hero's Conversion We will not attempt to describe the tumult of delight which agitated Reilly's heart on his way home, after this tender interview with the most celebrated Irish beauty of that period.

The term _Cooleen Bawn_, in native Irish, has two meanings, both of which were justly applied to her, and met in her person.

It signifies _fair locks_, or, as it may be pronounced _fair girl_; and in either sense is peculiarly applicable to a blonde beauty, which she was.

The name of _Cooleen Bawn_ was applied to her by the populace, whose talent for finding out and bestowing epithets indicative either of personal beauty or deformity, or of the qualities of the mind or character, be they good or evil, is, in Ireland, singularly felicitous.

In the higher ranks, however, she was known as "The Lily of the Plains of Boyne," and as such she was toasted by all parties, not only in her own native county, but throughout Ireland, and at the viceregal entertainments in the Castle of Dublin.