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The Letters Of "Norah" On Her Tour Through Ireland By Margaret Dixon Mcdougall - Page 59 of 404 - First - Home

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"Beside The Lake In Sweet Glenveigh, His Tall White Castle Stands, With Battlement And Tower High, Fresh From The Mason's

Hands; It's built of ruined hearth stones, its cement is bitter tears, It's a monument of infamy to all the

Future years, He is written childless, for of his blood no heir Shall inherit land or lordship from cruel John Adair.

"His cognizance the bloody hand has a wild meaning now, It is pointing up for vengeance to Cain-like mark his brow, It speaks of frantic hands that clasped the side posts of the door; Pale lips that kissed the threshold they would cross, oh, never more. The scattered stones of many homes, the desolated farms, Shall mark with deeper red the hand upon his coat of arms. The silver birches of Glenveigh when stirred by summer air Shall whisper of the curse that hangs o'er cruel John Adair."

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WHY THE RENT IS RAISED - THE HISTORY OF AN EVICTION FROM ONE OF THE EVICTED - A DONEGAL CONGREGATION - A CLIMB TO THE TOP OF DOONHILL - DOON HOLY WELL - MAKING THE BEST OF A STRANGER.

In the silence of the night when sleep would not come, and when my imagination rehearsed over and over again sights I had seen and tales I had heard, I made an almost cast-iron resolution to escape to the estate of Stewart of Ards and have one letter filled up with the good deeds of a landlord. Alas for me! another storm, a rain storm, and a touch of neuralgia conspired to keep me "ben the house" in the little room upon the mountain side.

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