The Earl's promise

Kingslough at high noon was ordinarily the stupidest, dullest, dirtiest little town that could have been found in the Province of Ulster. On market and fair, and party-processio...

Something had on that particular day, at that special hour occurred to disturb the customary serenity of Kingslough. Spite of the sun which flared upon the terrace, blinds were...

That fifteen miles’ journey took the traveller precisely the same distance from the sea; but it did not matter in the smallest degree to any of the Glendares where the family se...

It was a remarkable fact that although of the three ladies who kept the only circulating library Kingslough boasted one was deaf, a second nearly blind, and the third afflicted...

By the time Miss Healey, attended by her maid Sarah (although Mrs. Larkins and her sisters had astonished the proprieties of Kingslough by opening a library, they would never ha...

If, in the postchaise-and-four days, any record was kept of the number of runaway couples who were overtaken before the matrimonial knot could be tied, time has failed to preser...

Persons who knew anything about the Rosemont _ménage_—and the persons who did meant all resident within an area of twenty miles of that place, and a considerable number outside...

Great was the consternation at Woodbrook when John Riley announced his intention of leaving Ireland; greater, if possible, the lamentations which ensued when he informed his rel...

Amongst his friends and acquaintances Amos Scott’s homestead was considered a marvel of convenience and luxury, whilst by gentle and simple alike Mr. Scott himself was regarded...

At one time, a pernicious habit obtained across the channel, a habit which unfortunately appears to have latterly been imported into England, of bestowing Christian names on cou...

“But I will not marry him!” exclaimed the person most interested in the matter. “I would rather work, beg, starve, die, than be thrust in this way on any man.”