[Gutenberg 38861] • My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 1 (of 3) / A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union

Excerpt from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 1 of 3: A Chronicle of Ireland, From the Convention to the Union

The capital was crowded with armed men and bravely-bedizened dames. Carriages, gay with em blazoned panels, blocked up the narrow thorough fares, darkened to twilight-pitch by the boughs and garlands that festooned the overhanging eaves. Noddies and whiskies and sedans, bedecked with wreaths and ribbons, jostled one another into the gutter. Troops of horse, splendidly accoutred Officers mounted upon noble hunters - clattered hither and thither, crushing country folk against mire-stained walls and tattered booths, where victuals were dispensed, without so much as a By your leave.' Strangers, arrived but now from across Channel, marvelled at the spectacle, as they marked the signs Of widespread luxury - the strange ming ling of the pomp and circumstance of war with the panoply of peace - the palaces - the gorgeously attired ladies in semi-martial garb, swinging up and down Dame Street in gilded chairs between the Castle and the Senate House, and back again dressed, some of them, in broidered uniforms, some in rich satin and brocade. Sure the homely court of Farmer George in London could not com pare in splendour, or in female beauty either, with that of his Viceroy here.

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