Yet there was no doubt that my Lord Clare was unduly harsh--that the low-bred squireens were apt to treat the common folk cruelly to curry favour with the Castle.
My Lord Clare is a kind patron, but too much engaged to heed the fate of such humble squireensas I.
Miss Wolfe was an heiress as times went, and likely to be richer; impecunious squires and squireens were legion; and the abduction clubs not yet quite stamped out.
Nothing could please the squireens better than this tacit permission to give vent to their worst passions.
Mr. Gunning could teach the Irish squireens nothing in the way of boasting; and he soon found that they were capable of giving him some valuable instruction as to the acquiring of creditors and their subsequent evasion.
His jests were racy, of the soil, and coarse--just such as could be appreciated by squireens who were far enough removed from the grandees to give free rein to their hilarity.
But for this homage of the sun the squireens might have taken her for a victim of Medusa, so frozen was her manner.
The squireensrose to their feet with one accord; craned out their necks, with jaws dropped and eyes goggling.
So soon as the fete to the squireens was over, she would return to Strogue.
If the squireens of Letterkenny had been frightened by the gorgon's stony face when she strove to be gracious, how much more awful did she appear now, when grilling on the coals of humiliation.
They passed between two scarlet hedges, along the avenue which the squireens opened for them, into the low entrance-hall, and there waited in knots.
The squireens were much obleeged, and would make a point of responding to his lordship's feevour.
The squireensclasped each other's hands and embraced in their excitement, whilst Shane drew forth his jewelled timepiece.
This was uphill work; but the chancellor still smiled, though a hectic spot showed upon his cheekbone; for the squireens around were beginning to hee-haw, and he felt he was playing le role ridicule.
Bands of armed squireens sallied out in the mad frolics begot by drink, to 'give their opinion' to the disaffected, and the result was such a succession of night-brawls that Lord Clare was sorry and hurt.
He would have nobody to talk to but the fisherfolk, save when he sailed down the lough to Letterkenny to be entertained by the squireens in garrison.
The squireens were ruffianly through ignorance, their betters through self-interest, for it was easy to detect which way the wind was blowing.
He gave thesquireens to understand that they were fine jovial fellows, with a strong sense of humour and a subtle appreciation of a practical joke.
Squireens from Letterkenny would have been better; but then they might have made love to the young lady, and my lady had settled in her mind that nobody must do that but Shane.
The sheepish looks and bungling compliments of the squireens could not hide from her that this was the fabric from which the yeomanry were cut who hanged the people and burnt their cottages.
Already the squireens are abroad, imitating their fellows in the north.
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