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1. A Legend of Dromineer Castle (continued)

   

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   it is looked on in the light of a holiday festival; and the profane and obscene practices are but too frequently indulged in without restraint.
   O'Kennedy was much disturbed at the number of rude churls that thronged the castle. Amongst them there was no real grief, and the loud laugh and obscene jest from on his hearing like the hissing of a serpent.
   Calling O'Brien aside, he entreated of him to send away all the people of the lower class, with which the ground apartments of the castle were infested.
   "How" said he, "can the dead be honoured by the heartless licentiousness of these savage wretches? - fellows whose sympathies rise & fall in a corresponding medium with their personal interest - miscreants whose very presence in the house of mourning is a profanation of the solemn seriousness which should ever preside on the last awful ceremony of death - a ceremony which consigns man, who but a few hours ago breathed and felt like one of ourselves, to the cold bosom of the earth, there to rot and become as a clod of the valley?"
   "O'Kennedy", said O'Brien severely, "O'Kennedy, is the fair name of an ancient family to be

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