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The Celt and Saxon

CHAPTER XIX
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He stated the terms, which were hardly less than the affrighting ones blown across the Irish sea by that fierce party.

He held them to be just, simply sensible terms.

True, he spoke of the granting them as a sure method to rally all Ireland to an ardent love of the British flag.
But he praised names of Irish leaders whom she had heard Mr.Rockney denounce for disloyal insolence: he could find excuses for them and their dupes--poor creatures, verily! And his utterances had a shocking emphasis.

Then she was not wrong in her idea of the conspirator's head, her first impression of him! She could not quit the theme: doing that would have been to be indifferent: something urged her to it.
'Are they really your opinions ?' He seemed relieved by declaring that they were.
'Patrick is quite free of them,' said she.
'We will hope that the Irish fever will spare Patrick.

He was at a Jesuit college in France when he was wax.


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