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Orange and Green

CHAPTER 2: For James Or William
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Many have sold back their lands to the original owners, and have left the country.
Others are only holding out for better terms.

Another ten years of James's reign, and things would have righted themselves; but, if the Dutchman ascends the throne of England, there is no hope for Ireland, save in the sword." "Well, we must hope it will not come to that," Colonel L'Estrange said.
"I am ready to fight the battles of England on the Continent, but civil war, with all its horrors, sickens me; and civil war here is not like our civil war in England.

There were no race animosities there, no memory of cruel wrongs on one side or the other.

Men fought for a principle, but there were no atrocities committed, on either side, like those which have devastated Germany.

The peasant ploughed the land, and the trader kept open his shop unmolested.


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