The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago. Lever Charles James
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Название: The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago
Автор: Lever Charles James
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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The old man’s head fell forward on his bosom, and, as his hands dropped listlessly down at either side, he sat the very impersonation of overwhelming affliction, while Mark, with heavy step and slow, walked up and down the roomy chamber.
“Hemsworth’s clerk hinted something about this old banker’s intention of building here,” resumed he, after a long interval of silence.
“Building where? – over at ‘the Lodge?’”
“No, here – at Carrig-na-curra – throwing down this old place, I suppose, and erecting a modern villa instead.”
“What!” exclaimed the O’Donoghue, with a look of fiery indignation. “Are they going to grub us out, root and branch? Is it not enough to banish the old lords of the soil, but they must remove their very landmarks also?”
“It is for that he’s come here, I’ve no doubt,” resumed Mark; “he only waited to have the whole estate in his possession, which this term will give him.”
“I wish he had waited a little longer – a year, or at most, two, would have been enough,” said the old man, in a voice of great dejection, then added, with a sickly smile – “You have little affection for the old walls, Mark.”
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