Saints and Sinners (Volume 1-2); A Tale of Modern Times (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1844 Excerpt: ... different evils which afflicted Ireland, --he had never opened his lips on these exciting topics, without giving expression to some thoughts congenial to the sentiments of Emily's mind. To regard him with indifference was impossible When Martha learned that Emily had promised to visit Miss O'Hara, she at first tried to persuade her to relinquish her intention. Finding this effort ineffectual, she thought her next best plan was to fill Emily's mind with an ample store of antidotes, to be furnished by a pious conversazione at Mrs. M'Coskey's, where a constellation of the evangelical luminaries of the district were to assemble; not as a formal meeting, but merely a social assemblage of certain zealous men and women, preliminary to a public anti-catholic display which was to take place in the afternoon. Mr. James M'Coskey had arrived from Innisfoyle upon the previous day. The ubiquitous Slocum was also in Killandrum, to be ready for the gathering. On the morning of the day in question, Mr. James M'Coskey was sauntering up and down one of the walks in his father's garden, with an air of elegant languor. He had risen from the breakfast-table earlier than the rest of the company, to wander forth alone among its neatly trellised precincts. Slocum soon followed, and found James perambulating slowly, and with the characters of care upon his countenance. "Do you soon go out to Innisfoyle?" inquired Slocum. "Don't know," answered James. This tithe-agency is a boring sort of thing; I think I'll throw it up." There was then a long pause, during which Slocum and James took their seats beneath an arbour facing the wall that divided the garden from the next in the row, which appertained, we should observe, to Mrs. Mulkelly, and was much frequented by her fascinating daughte...