My father was still in hopes that we might safely remain.

At the first appearance of disturbance in Ireland he had offered to carry his sisters-in-law, the Mrs.Sneyd, to their friends in England, but this offer they refused.

Of the domestics, three men were English and Protestant, two Irish and Catholic; the women were all Irish and Catholic excepting the housekeeper, an Englishwoman who had lived with us many years.

There were no dissensions or suspicions between the Catholics and the Protestants in the family; and the English servants did not desire to quit us at this crisis.
'At last came the dreaded news.

The French, who landed at Killala, were, as we learned, on their march towards Longford.