[Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert]@TWC D-Link bookIreland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) CHAPTER X 25/26
It wasn't as good a country, was it, as old Ireland? And they had to work too hard; and then some of them got money, and they'd like to spend it in the old place." The country about Woodlawn is very picturesque and well wooded, and for a long distance we followed the neatly-kept stone walls of the large and handsome park of Lord Ashtown. "The most beautiful and biggest trees in all Ireland, sorr," said the jarvey, "and it's a great pity, it is, ye can't stay to let me drive you all over it, for the finest part of the park is just what you can't see from this road.
Oh, her ladyship would never object to any gentleman driving about to see the beauties of the place.
She is a very good woman, is her ladyship.
She gave work the last Christmas to thirty-two men, and there wasn't another house in the country there that had work for more than ten or twelve.
A very good woman she is, indeed." "Yes, that is a very handsome church, it is indeed.
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