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My father was an under-keeper to Sir Patrick O’Shaughlin, of County Clare, who used to keep his hounds, two coach-horses, and two carriages. My grandfather was a Protestant; he was a gentleman as the phrase goes, and he died worth a hundred a year. My own father, about forty years ago, married a woman who, like myself, was of the Roman Catholic persuasion; and, though she had neither fortune nor family, she had a face and a wit, which procured her, for a season, the notice of more than one gentleman in the neighbourhood.