The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-03

EU1cyvOrth are coming into genera
favor once more. Whether tfey VIII
reach again that height of popularity
which they once enjoyed Is a question:
But there is in them that which VIII
make them an enduring part OF the
best English literature. II IN the haii
of fame Miss EdsewOrth's niche is not
very broad or very deep, still II Is q
niche of respectable size and pef1flant.
" builded. Her stories are SOou
stories. we'll told in excellent English,
and we can get from her pages knowl-
edge OF certain phases of Irish lue
which we can get in the writing o1
nobody else. ..Ormond' Is full OF won
derful Genes of feeling, wit ana
huinor. and the characters OF A1ns
Corney and Sir Ulick are
wonderfully drawn. Maria Wroie
"Or1nond" during her fathers last i'll
ness. producing gay and br1lilant
pages while her eyes were SuffuScu
with tears, her heart filled with anx-
iety and her han trembIed with ap-
p~rehension of the doom
over the household. Maria Edge
worth vi so years old when she
wrote ''Ormond,' and approaching 20
when she wrote ''Helen," the last OF
her w~ell-known novels.
It was between 10 and II O'Clock at
night when Sir Ulick came
bursting lulO IL u OWNS $500
Castle Hermitage with his hearty
laugh and CHEEKY voice and sans out:
What, no music, no dancing IN
Castle Hermitage tonight? And all
the ladies sitting in a formal circle
p%etrifying into perfect state statues.
Sir Click was followed by what he
called his rear guard" veterans Of
the old school of good fellows who in
those days in Ireland deemed 1t es-
sentiaI to health, happiness AID man
Iy character to swallow, and snow
themselves able to stand after swal-
lowing, a certain number Of bottles OF
claret by day or night. The gloomy
circle Of ladies frightened up at the
entrance of Sir Uiick-he always had
a way of saying something pleasant
to everybody. Lady O'Shane, however,
a mature person, a widow whom SIT
Ulick had married for her money in
London-remarked to her spouse that:
The ladies could do little else than
sit in a petrified circle when the gen.
temen persisted in lingering at the
bottle"
Miss Black, Lady O'Shane's "com-
panion.' an acidulous old maid who
presided at the tea table, asked Sir
Ulick if he would have some cold
coffee" There was enough of differ
ence in every way between Sir Ulick
and his lady without Miss Black max
ing matters worse, but making mat
tiers worse was Miss Blacks strong
point, and it was only a lingering
sense Of gratitude to Lady O'Shane for
having paid his bills when she mar
fted him that kept Sir Ulick from
arranging a separation between him
self and wife.
Sir Ulick had been a rake in his
day, but had reformed, and was now
a politician, a OF the Irish
Parliament. a persistent seeker after
ministerial favors and reputed TO be
the biggest 'jobber" in Ireland. In
order to smooth his way to political
preferment he had turned Protestant
and really was a man of Importance,
standing we'll with the ministry, how
ever much the opposition might abuse
him and lampoon him in their sour
rilouS sheets. He had established a
mines in different parts Of ireland
and lived royalty at Castle Hermitage
or at his house in Dublin. It is true
thai n Lord Lieutenant rather liked
to keep him waiting in the ante
room and h ministers always felt
at liberty to snub or abuse him; but
the Lord Lieutenant visited him in
state at Castle Hermitage and the min
listers gave him a baronetcy.
When Sir Ulick entered his draw
ing room on the night mentioned he
missed on looking around. a person
whom he especially desired to see
there-his son Marcus. Lady Annaly
was there, with her daughter, Miss
Annaly. and he had designed that
Marcus n Miss Annaly should open
the dance together-for a dance he
was determined to have-and a mar
riage later. if it might be, between his
son and Lady Annaly's daughter. The
connection was everything he could
Tish-there was money and station.
and all this would rebound to the
standing OF Sir Ulick.
Marcus had gone off with Harry
Ormond to visit Sir Ulick's cousin.
Cornelius O'Shane-King Corney of
the Black Islands, they called him.
Harry Ormon was the son of an old
friend of Sir Ulick. an officer who had
died in India, leaving his son but