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Article THURLOGH, THE MILESIAN. ← Page 5 of 8 →
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
business was transacted by female servants , and all messages communicated by such alone . Numerous were the stratagems which adventurers had devised to storm the receptacle of so many buried enchantments . I have heard , it is true , of a " bold colonel of dragoons , " who filled also a distinguished station in the deliberations of our senate , having been so determined upon a siege , as to Iodge his encampment within a few yards of the castle gatebut his gallantry soon listened to the whisperings of
; despair , and he relinquished a treasure which could be won only by perseverance . Of more abiding faith and of firmer purpose , though immatured in life and inexperienced in its tactics , did the present votary of happiness enlist his name amongst the host of suitors ; and , aware of the difficulties against which he bad to contend , be betook himself to an artifice which has been often found successful , where more pompous negociations had failed . He won to his confidence one of the serving girls of the castleandbher
, , y instrumentality , when the keeper's watchfulness was lulled to sleep , he gained access to the chamber of his idolized recluse , whence after some delay , and under the intoxicating influence of joy , he makes his triumphant exit , rewarded with the possession of that inestimable jewel for which he had long secretly sighed , and for which , too , be had scarcely permitted himself the very instant before , to entertain the most distant expectation !
It was , to legalise tbe union of this fugitive pair , that tbe priest was hurried off from his conversation with Thurlogh in the reading room ; and the sensation which tbe occurrence bad excited in the neighbourhood , from the associations connected with the history of the heroine , is my only apology for inserting notice of it here , and thereby disturbing the thread of our subject . As for the priest himself , the penalty which the very act had rendered him liable to , in point of law , for celebrating a marriage between two
individuals , of whom one belonged to a communion different from his own , was the least of the reflections , which cast their shadow across his mind , and embittered the satisfaction he would otherwise have enjoyed . He was not a morose and unsocial Timon , who , disgusted himself with the gaieties and amusements of this world , could not bear to see another " butterflying it " in tbe sunbeams . Though he had receded from life , at least the noisy and fashionable portion thereof , he had by no means abandoned his regard for its welfare ; and as the reader , perhaps , by this time , is somewhat interested in his identity , I shall relieve his suspense by explaining that he was neither more nor less than the self-same Mr . Cornelius O'Sullivan with whom our first page has been graced .
CHAPTER VII . The sun bad just descended below the horizon , when as this amiable divine " hied him" home from Hymen ' s altar , he was overtaken by a despatch from a very dear friend and neighbour of his , the proprietor of the adjoining estate , to say that as he wished for the pleasure of his " reverence's" company on the following evening , and did not choose to expose Mm to the inclemency of a winter ' s nihthe would himself go and take " pot luck "
g , with him at the parsonage , if happily not inconvenient . A more gratifying announcement could scarcely have been imagined . The deponent was one of those men , who after a long sojourn in life , and a philosophical observation of its inconsistencies , held all the glitter of fashion , and the pageantry of court , very cheap indeed , compared with one moment of social edification with a rational and congenial gossip . Such a relation was he ever sure to find in O'Sullivan , whose drooping
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Thurlogh, The Milesian.
business was transacted by female servants , and all messages communicated by such alone . Numerous were the stratagems which adventurers had devised to storm the receptacle of so many buried enchantments . I have heard , it is true , of a " bold colonel of dragoons , " who filled also a distinguished station in the deliberations of our senate , having been so determined upon a siege , as to Iodge his encampment within a few yards of the castle gatebut his gallantry soon listened to the whisperings of
; despair , and he relinquished a treasure which could be won only by perseverance . Of more abiding faith and of firmer purpose , though immatured in life and inexperienced in its tactics , did the present votary of happiness enlist his name amongst the host of suitors ; and , aware of the difficulties against which he bad to contend , be betook himself to an artifice which has been often found successful , where more pompous negociations had failed . He won to his confidence one of the serving girls of the castleandbher
, , y instrumentality , when the keeper's watchfulness was lulled to sleep , he gained access to the chamber of his idolized recluse , whence after some delay , and under the intoxicating influence of joy , he makes his triumphant exit , rewarded with the possession of that inestimable jewel for which he had long secretly sighed , and for which , too , be had scarcely permitted himself the very instant before , to entertain the most distant expectation !
It was , to legalise tbe union of this fugitive pair , that tbe priest was hurried off from his conversation with Thurlogh in the reading room ; and the sensation which tbe occurrence bad excited in the neighbourhood , from the associations connected with the history of the heroine , is my only apology for inserting notice of it here , and thereby disturbing the thread of our subject . As for the priest himself , the penalty which the very act had rendered him liable to , in point of law , for celebrating a marriage between two
individuals , of whom one belonged to a communion different from his own , was the least of the reflections , which cast their shadow across his mind , and embittered the satisfaction he would otherwise have enjoyed . He was not a morose and unsocial Timon , who , disgusted himself with the gaieties and amusements of this world , could not bear to see another " butterflying it " in tbe sunbeams . Though he had receded from life , at least the noisy and fashionable portion thereof , he had by no means abandoned his regard for its welfare ; and as the reader , perhaps , by this time , is somewhat interested in his identity , I shall relieve his suspense by explaining that he was neither more nor less than the self-same Mr . Cornelius O'Sullivan with whom our first page has been graced .
CHAPTER VII . The sun bad just descended below the horizon , when as this amiable divine " hied him" home from Hymen ' s altar , he was overtaken by a despatch from a very dear friend and neighbour of his , the proprietor of the adjoining estate , to say that as he wished for the pleasure of his " reverence's" company on the following evening , and did not choose to expose Mm to the inclemency of a winter ' s nihthe would himself go and take " pot luck "
g , with him at the parsonage , if happily not inconvenient . A more gratifying announcement could scarcely have been imagined . The deponent was one of those men , who after a long sojourn in life , and a philosophical observation of its inconsistencies , held all the glitter of fashion , and the pageantry of court , very cheap indeed , compared with one moment of social edification with a rational and congenial gossip . Such a relation was he ever sure to find in O'Sullivan , whose drooping