Stephens and O'Donohoe, their very desperation acted as the most ennobling and irresistible inducement.

They clung to him to the last with a fidelity the more untiring in proportion as his circumstances portended imminent disaster and ruin.
Their departure from Cashel compelled a feeling of gloomier forebodings and deeper despair than they had yet experienced.

The darkest consciousness that ever clouded the hopes of man began to darken upon them.

Where they expected that every man would make a fortress for them in his very heart, they were almost abandoned.

But their resolution remained unchanged.