Extraordinary Female Affection
... Miss Butler and Miss Ponsonby, now retired from the society of men into the wilds of a certain Welsh vale, bear a strange antipathy to the male sex, whom they take every opportunity of avoiding. Both ladies are daughters of the great Irish families whose names they retain. Miss Butler, who is of the Ormond family, had had several offers of marriage, all of which she rejected. As Miss Ponsonby, ...