[24] A man concealing himself on arrest for debt is, in Ireland, familiarly said to be _on his keeping_, probably from his keeping or confining himself to the house when there is danger of the writ being executed. [25] Abbrev. for Larry or Laurence. [26] The length of a spade's-handle of ground. _Over a man's head_--i.e.--out-bidding the tenant in possession, by offering generally a larger rent for the land out of which he is about to be ejected. [27] _Spell_--very short space of time, as long as it would take to spell a word. [28] An achievement similar to that here described actually took place about the same period nearly on the same spot. It was planned and executed by two persons living at a town mentioned in the tale, and terminated in the instant death of the unlucky highwayman, whose body they placed in their vehicle, and brought back with them in an hour or two from the time they set out. In the present day, such a deed (thus premeditated) would be deservedly termed a rash and cruel act--the lawless and unprotected state of that country, however, at the time, led it to be considered--we believe--a laudable one. [29] _Revelations of Spain._ By an ENGLISH RESIDENT. [30] The Monk, too, has this characteristic, which is of dubious exposition. Tyrwhitt thinks that the meaning _may be_--"Eyes sunk deep in the head." Certainly a feature giving force and distinction to the physiognomy has been intended. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations. Punctuation has been corrected without note. The following misprints have been corrected: "on" corrected to "or" (page 537) "und" corrected to "and" (page 566) "sevesal" corrected to "several" (page 580) "Tyrrell's" standardized to "Tyrrel's" (page 587) "Tyrrell" standardized to "Tyrrel" (page 582) "would'nt" corrected to "wouldn't" (page 585) "ununhonoured" corrected to "unhonoured" (page 586) "Tyrell" standardized to "Tyrrel" (page 587) "hir" corrected to "his" (page 589) "aparment" corrected to "apartment" (page 590) "O'Connel" corrected to "O'Connell" (page 651) "n" corrected to "in" (page 654) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation usage have been retained from the original text.