I will leave you to tell all the home news to Walter, who will retell it to me afterwards." "Now tell me all the news," Walter said, when they were together again.
"The news is not altogether pleasant," John replied.

"The whole of the country round Dublin is being harried by the cavalry in garrison there.
They pay no attention whatever to papers of protection, and care but little whether those they plunder are Protestant or Catholic, friend or foe.

They go about in small parties, like bands of brigands, through the country; and those who go to Dublin to obtain redress for their exactions are received with indifference, and sometimes with insult, by the authorities.

Then, too, we have had trouble at home.
"My grandfather became more bigoted than ever, and would, if he had the power, have annihilated every Catholic in Ireland.

My father and he had frequent quarrels, and I was in daily expectation of an open breach between them, and of my father giving up his share of the property, and taking us to England.