Excerpt from Lord Edward: A Study in Romance

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A friend of the Good Family has written: 'It is always a joy to see a gathering of the Fitzgerald Clan. They adore each other, and their admiration for each other is so ingenuous that it disarms the scornful and the base. Surely there were never so many phoenixes in one nest.'

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The same vivacious friend tells the tale: 'Of a Winter evening in, I think, the year 1774 I was drinking a dish of tea with the Dss. at Leinster House. I can well remember the wet in the streets and the blurred torches of the link-boys as I travelled from the Frederick Street Hotel to Leinster House in my chair. It was little more lively in the long drawing-room where the Dss.

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