From his official connection with the asylum at Letterkenny, he knows that while it used to accommodate the lunatics of three counties, it is now hardly adequate to the needs of Donegal alone.
Everything about Ballyconnell House is out of key with the actual military conditions of life here.

It is essentially what Tennyson calls "an ancient home of ordered peace." In the ample hall hang old portraits and trophies of the chase.

The large and handsome library, panelled in rich dark wood, is filled full of well-bound books.

Prints, busts, the thousand and one things of "bigotry and virtue" which mark the dwelling-place of educated and thoughtful people are to be seen on every side.

Mr.Olphert showed us a cabinet full of bronzes, picked up on the strand of the sea.