THE O'NEILES; OR, SECOND SIGHT. BY ALISON GARD. OTHER London: PROVOST & CO., 36, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1870. 250. C. 423. THE O'NEILES. CHAPTER I. "Weep on, weep on your hour is past; Weep on-perhaps in after days, And when they tread the ruin'd isle, MOORE. In the early part of the present century, in the west of Ireland (not far from the mouth of the Shannon, which, after traversing one province, divides another on its way to the Atlantic, into which it precipitates itself), lived the last branch of an ancient Irish family of the name of O'Neile. Upon the broad lands which formerly extended for many miles, but which at the time we write were reduced to as many acres, stood O'Neile Court, partly in ruins, and with little to admire in its structure beyond the time-stained grey walls, revealing in their decaying outlines a style of architecture, common enough in the remote century to which it had belonged, but rare at the time of which we are writing. It was one of the B |