THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS; OR, ADELAIDE OF TYRCONNEL; A ROMANCE. _IN THREE VOLUMES._ BY MATTHEW WELD HARTSTONGE, ESQ. M.R.I.A. Nescia mens hominum, fati sortisque futuræ Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis! ........................... tempus erit, ............. et quum spolia ista diemque Oderit! VIRGILIUS, Æ. x.I. 501. VOL. III. LONDON: FOR G. B. WHITTAKER, AVE MARIA LANE. 1825. THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS. CHAPTER I. Upon your art, Sir, and your faith to assist it, Shall I believe you, then, his wound's not mortal? LOVE'S PILGRIMAGE. The banditti who made the fierce and fiery attack, as recounted in our last chapter, a few days subsequent to that sad event were arrested by the _Gens d'Armes_ in Soignies wood. They had been composed, it appeared upon examination, of the daring and desperate of different nations, and that their leader was a Spaniard. But it is indeed full time that we should return to the mansion of Tyrconnel, where all was distress and dismay. But amid all this incidental confusion and alarm no time whatever had been lost in calling in surgical assistance; two surgeons of reputed eminence being instantly summoned--an English practitioner of the name of Leach, who long had been a resident at Brussels, and a Monsieur Bourreau, a French surgeon in considerable practice, likewise a resident of this ancient city, who immediately obeyed the summons. Monsieur Bourreau was the first to arrive, who had a conference with Sir Patricius Placebo, understanding that he was a medical gentleman. MONSIEUR BOURREAU.--"_Ah! serviteur, Monsieur._--_Mais je demand votre pardon! car je pourrois dire_, LE CHEVALIER _Aussi-bon_!" SIR PATRICIUS PLACEBO.--"Hem, hem! Placebo, _je dis_ Placebo!--_Prononces comme il faut, si vous plais, Monsieur Chirurgien!_" MONSIEUR BOURREAU.--"_Oh, pardon encore, je demand tres humblement de votre mains. Je dis, Chevalier Placebo, que les blesseurs portées de les fusils sont toujours trop dangereux; et pour moi, Chevalier Assebo, je prefere dix blesseurs de l'epée partout, à une diable blesseure de portée de fusil!--Mais, neanmoins, toujours chacun à son goût!_" SIR PATRICIUS.--"_Cette remarque, Monsieur Chirurgien, est trop vrai; et vous-avez sans doute beaucoup de raison certainment; car comme ils ont dit autrefois_, 'De gustibus non disputandum!'