100 282 108 A EIGHT MILE DRIVE OVER RAIN WASHED IRISH ROADS 785 93 IN THE QUICK FALLING DUSK OF AUTUMN IS AN EXPERIENCE 922 44 TRYING TO THE PATIENCE EVEN TO THE TEMPER 915 18 OF THE AVERAGE SAXON YET JAMES MILBANKE MADE 856 53 NEITHER COMMENT NOR OBJECTION AS MILE AFTER MILE 916 268 OF ROADWAY SPUN AWAY LIKE A RIBBON BEHIND HIM 131 11 AS THE MUD ROSE IN SHOWERS FROM THE WHEELS OF THE OLDFASHIONED 431 615 TRAP IN WHICH HE SAT AND THE HALF TRAINED 156 688 MARE BETWEEN THE SHAFTS SWERVED NOW TO THE RIGHT 521 191 NOW TO THE LEFT HER NERVOUS GLANCE CAUGHT BY THE 604 84 SNECTRAL SHAPES OF THE VJLACKTHORN HEDGES OR THE 881 762 TNOTIONLESS FORMS OF THE WAYSIDE DONKEYS LYING 809 979 ASLEEP IN THE DITCHES PERHAPS THIS STOICISM WAS THE 580 630 OUTCOME OF AN INNATE POWER TO ENDURE PERHAPS IT WAS 120 748 A MERELY NEGATIVE QUALITY ILLUSTRATING THE LACK OF 375 840 THAT DOUBTFUL BLESSING IMAGINATION WHATEVER ITS 668 370 ORIGIN IT STOOD HIM IN GOOD STEAD AS HE COVERED THE 373 298 LONG STRETCH OF FLAT COUNTRY THAT LINKS THE SOUTHEASTERN 124 729 SEAPORT OF MUSKEERE WITH THE REMOTE FISHING 609 224 VILLAGE OF CARRIGMORE AND ITS OUTLYING DISTRICT OF ORRISTOVVN 667 278 HIS OUTLOOK UPON IRELAND LIKE HIS OUTLOOK UPON 53 448 LIFE WAS UNTINGCD BY HUMOR HE HAD SEEN NO 953 147 GROUND FOR AMUSEMENT IN THE FACT THAT HE HAD BEEN 480 459 THE ONLY PASSENGER TO ALIGHT FROM THE TRAIN AT THE 327 758 MUSKEERE TERMINUS 719 748 AND CONSEQUENTLY NO GROUND FOR 168 829 LONELINESS IN THE SIGHT OF THE SOLITARY VEHICLE 354 476 DIMLY SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE MURKY SKY 306 456 THAT HAD AWAITED 679 720 HIS COMING THE LUDICROUS POINTS OF THE SCENE 604 346 THE PRIMITIVE RAILWAY STATION WITH ITS INSUFFICIENT FLICKERING LIGHTS 324 344 ITS LITTLE KNOT OF INQUISITIVE IDLERS 690 549 ITS ONE PORTER 301 332 SLOVENLY AMIABLE INCORRIGIBLY LAZY 579 578 ALL CONTRIBUTING 862 613 THE UNCONSCIOUS BACKGROUND TO HIS OWN 844 690 NEAT CONVENTIONAL TOTALLY ALIEN PERSONALITY 651 685 HAD LEFT HIM UNTOUCHED 821 524 THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL TO WHOM THE PICTURE HAD 955 20 MADE ITS APPEAL HAD BEEN THE SOLITARY PORTER AS 80 723 HE RELIEVED MILBANKE OF HIS VALISE AND RUG ON THE 242 968 STEP OF THE FIRST CLASS CARRIAGE AN UNDENIABLE TWINKLE 683 627 HAD GLEAMED IN HIS EYES 141 40 FINE SOFT NIGHT SIR HE HAD VOLUNTEERED 91 577 TIM BURKE IS OUTSIDE FOR YOU 729 93 FOR A SECOND MILBANKE HAD STARED AT HIM 536 500 MIXTURE OF DOUBT AND DISPLEASURE A MONTHS PILGRIMAGE 444 973 TO THE ANCIENT CELTIC LANDMARKS HAD LEFT HIM 120 347 AS IT HAS LEFT MANY A SAXON BEFORE HIM UNLEARNED 877 918 IN THAT MOST INTERESTING AND MOST INSCRUTABLE OF ALL 707 395 SURVIVALS THE CELT HIMSELF HE HAD SURVEYED THE 552 500 FACE OF THE PORTER CAUTIOUSLY AND HALF DISTRUSTFULLY 110 349 THEN HE HAD MADE A GUARDED REPLY 785 695 I AM CERTAINLY EXPECTING A CONVEYANCE HE 195 523 HAD ADMITTED BUT I HAVE NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF TIM BURKE 258 132 AGAIN HIS MIND RETURNED TO THE PERIOD OF HIS COLLEGE CAREER WHEN 925 549 AS A QUIET STUDENT 600 717 HE HAD BEEN DRAWN BY THE SUBTLE ATTRACTION 713 453 OF CONTRAST INTO A FRIENDSHIP WITH DENIS ASSHLIN 623 224 THE YOUNG IRISHMAN WHOSE SPIRIT 624 858 WHOSE ENTHUSIASMS 501 25 WHOSE EXUBERANT JOY IN LIFE HAD SHONE 801 765 IN SUCH VIVID COLORS BESIDE HIS OWN NEUTRAL TINTED 196 693 PERSONALITY HIS THOUGHTS PASSED METHODICALLY FROM THOSE EAGER 755 766 EARLY DAYS TO THE MORE SOBER ONES THAT 161 252 HAD FOLLOWED ASSHLINS RECALL TO IRELAND 72 505 AND THENCE ONWARD OVER THE SUCCEEDING TALE OF YEARS 506 946 HE REVIEWED HIS OWN CALM IF SOMEWHAT LONELY MANHOOD 773 931 HIS AIMLESS DELVING FIRST INTO ONE BRANCH OF LEARNING 781 554 THEN INTO ANOTHER 119 475 HIS GRADUALLY DAWNING INTEREST IN 619 567 THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY 855 295 AN INTEREST THAT 603 617 FOSTERED BY AMPLE LEISURE AND AMPLE MEANS 782 476 HAD BECOME THE TEMPERATE AND WELL ORDERED PASSION OF HIS LIFE 18 744 THE RETROSPECT WAS PLEASANT 883 857 THERE IS ALWAYS AN AGREEABLE 97 944 SENSATION TO A MAN OF MILBANKES TEMPERAMENT 889 257 IN LOOKING BACK UPON UNRUFFLED TIMES HE BECAME 719 258 OBLIVIOUS OF THE RUTS IN THE ROAD AND OF THE MARES 846 779 ERRATIC MOVEMENTS AS HE TRACED THE COURSE OF EVENTS 37 138 TO THE POINT WHERE 182 344 TWO MONTHS BEFORE 264 42 THE DISCOVERY 751 632 OF A DOZEN PLATTERS OF PURE GOLD AND AS MANY DRINKINGVESSELS 265 787 EMBEDDED IN A BOG IN THE COUNTY TYRONE 908 137 HAD TURNED THE EYES OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORLD UPON 761 202 IRELAND 349 933 AND HE 160 959 WITH OTHER STUDENTS OF ANTIQUITY 950 878 HAD BEEN BITTEN WITH THE DESIRE TO SEE THE UNIQUE AND 476 310 PRICELESS OBJECTS FOR HIMSELF 379 289 FOR AN ADDED SPACE THE OLD MAN REMAINED MUTE 871 527 WHILE HE PILOTED THE TRAP UP THE SWEEP OF AVENUE 661 517 WITH THAT IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE FOR A FINE FINISH THAT ANIMATES 673 296 EVERY IRISH DRIVER 334 646 THEN AS THEY SPUN ROUND 420 677 THE FINAL CURVE 705 522 AS THE GREAT 287 633 SQUARE HOUSE LOOMED