I wish to Heaven mine did; and, by Saint Patrick, if I only played the knight-errant half as gallantly as yourself, I would not relinquish my claims to the Secretary at War himself." "What the devil brought the old general down to your wild regions ?" inquired Webber.
"To contest the county." "A bright thought, truly.

When a man was looking for a seat, why not try a place where the law is occasionally heard of ?" "I'm sure I can give you no information on that head; nor have I ever heard how Sir George came to learn that such a place as Galway existed." "I believe I can enlighten you," said Power.

"Lady Dashwood--rest her soul!--came west of the Shannon; she had a large property somewhere in Mayo, and owned some hundred acres of swamp, with some thousand starving tenantry thereupon, that people dignified as an estate in Connaught.

This first suggested to him the notion of setting up for the county, probably supposing that the people who never paid in rent might like to do so in gratitude.

How he was undeceived, O'Malley there can inform us.