He seldom showed himself out of doors, never without two or three armed servants, all of whom were strangers from the north, and he was often away, for months together, at Dublin." "And what did you do with yourself ?" "I fished, shot, and rode.

I had many friends among the gentry of the neighbourhood, who would, doubtless, have shown less kindness than they did, had it not been for the neglect with which O'Carroll treated me.

His unpopularity was all in my favour.
"However, I have one good reason for being obliged to him, since it was through him that I obtained my commission.

He told me that, in his young days, he had been at a French college with the duke.
They had been great friends there, and he thought that, in memory of this, de Noailles would procure me a commission." "I suppose the real fact was, Kennedy, that he was glad to get rid of you altogether ?" "I think that is likely enough.

He certainly raised no objection, whatever, to my going abroad, and seemed to think it natural that I should choose the Irish Brigade, here, in preference to the British service.