Manners: A Novel, Vol 3

——Dicas hîc forsitan unde Ingenium par materiæ.
Juvenal.
Je sais qu'un sot trouve toujours un plus sot pour le lire.
Fred. le Grand.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1817.
——Whose birth beyond all question springs From great and glorious, though forgotten, kings.
Churchill.
Tout cela bien souvent faisoit crier miracle! Enfin quoique ignorant à vingt et trois carats, Elle passoit pour un oracle!
In their last conference Judy Stewart had given Miss Fitzcarril the following enigma:—A rose rudely drawn, followed by the words of vargins, —then, a ship in full sail—then, three suns—and lastly, a man, four times as big as the ship, holding a candle in one hand, and a ring in the other. The exposition Barny and the curious spinster gave of this was as follows:— The flower of virgins, that is, the eldest daughter of the direct branch of the O'Sullivan family, was coming from beyond sea, and would arrive at Ballinamoyle, as soon as the sun had risen three times, bringing in her train a great personage (expressed by his extraordinary size,) who would, in winter, designated by the candle, bestow the wedding ring on the fair Theresa Fitzcarril. Judy Stewart's credit was luckily saved by the horses, which our travellers so unexpectedly procured at Tuberdonny, fulfilling the first part of the prediction; and in Mr. Webberly the credulous maiden saw the hero, who was to accomplish that part which related to herself.