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Her notion was to retire into some religious sisterhood , and away from life and its cares , to pass her remaining years in holy meditation and piety . She would have liked to have sold her estate and endowed some house or convent with the proceeds , but there were certain legal difficulties that stood in the way , and her law-agent , McKeown , must be seen and conferred with about these . Her moods of passion were usually so very violent that she would stop at nothing ; and in the torrent of her anger she would decide on a course of action which would colour a whole lifetime . On the present occasion her first step was to write and acquaint McKeown that she would be at Moodie 's Hotel , Dominick Street , the same evening , and begged he might call there at eight or nine o'clock , as her business with him was pressing . Her next care was to let the house and lands of O'Shea 's Barn to Peter Gill , for the term of one year , at a rent scarcely more than nominal , the said Gill binding himself to maintain the gardens , the shrubberies , and all the ornamental plantings in their accustomed order and condition . In fact , the extreme moderation of the rent was to be recompensed by the large space allotted to unprofitable land , and the great care he was pledged to exercise in its preservation ; and while nominally the tenant , so manifold were the obligations imposed on him , he was in reality very little other than the caretaker of O'Shea 's Barn and its dependencies . No fences were to be altered , or boundaries changed .