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Peg O’ My Heart

CHAPTER I
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He multiplied his duties: he worked far into the night when he could find a demand for his articles.

But little by little his sources of revenue failed him.
Some fresh and horrible Agrarian crimes in Ireland, for which the Home Rule party were blamed, for a while turned the tide of sympathy against his party.

The order was sent out to discontinue meetings for the purpose of collecting funds in America--funds the Irish-Americans had been so cheerfully and plentifully bestowing on the "Cause." O'Connell was recalled to Ireland.

His work was highly commended.
Some day they would send him to the United States again as a Special Pleader.

At present he would be of greater value at home.
He was instructed to apply to the treasurer of the fund and arrangements would be made for his passage back to Ireland.
He brought the news to Angela with a strange feeling of fear and disappointment.


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