But Castlereagh was the corrupt gentleman at the Court, Fitzgerald the generous gentleman upon the land; some portion of whose blood, along with some portion of his spirit, descended to that great gentleman, whoin the midst of the emetic immoralism of our modern politicsgave back that land to the Irish peasantry.

The wonder turns to mere mysticism; and mere mysticism always turns to mere immoralism.

Modelling himself after his newest friend, in attire, manners and morals, he lived what might have been on the whole an unprofitable and ordinary life, if he had not been able to gild it with the glamour of philosophic immoralism.