That there should be Englishmen to build such a place positively angered him.

He was not exactly a bigot or a fanatic; he would not have repealed the Emancipation Acts; and he would have said that if anyone wanted to be a Romanist, he had better be one.

But he would not have had time for anyone who did so want, and if he should have had to have by any chance dealings with a priest, he would have been so frigidly polite that the poor fellow would probably have been frozen solid.

Of course, Irishmen were different, and he had known some capital fellows, Irish priests and chaplains....
And then he saw two men ahead of him.

They were privates on leave and drunk, but not hopelessly drunk.