Charley especially disliked the idea of his uniform
being taken for a Fenian one.

Some time after this we wanted to go to the
levee at the Castle, but our uniforms were then
in the possession of the Government. Charley
treated the affair as a joke, and chaffed our mother
on the dangers she ran owing to her complicity
with the Fenian rising. He felt, however, the
unjustified slight which was imposed on him by
being debarred from the festivities at the Castle
and Viceregal Lodge. He distinctly resented the
idea of being stamped as a Fenian, especially as
he was in the Queen's army, and was proud of
the fact. This preyed somewhat on his mind,
and he finally declared that he would leave the
house if anything more was said about the Fenians.
Charley and I wanted to go to the Castle to pay
our respects to Lord Carlisle, but we were ham-
pered by having no uniform. Still, as the Viceroy
was an old friend of our mother's, we obtained the
return of our uniforms by simply going to the
Castle and asking for them, though we had to
endure a great deal of chaff from the officers, who
asked how it was that we came to be among the
Fenians.

My recollection of Charley's attitude at the time
is, as I have recounted, distinctly against his
entrance into politics being in any sense due to
the influence of the Fenian movement.

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