His two oldest brothers, James and Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went at odd hours of the night on mysterious ...
For years, the O'Haras had been in bad odor with the English constabulary on account of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was no ...
For this and other reasons, Gerald's family was not inclined to view the fatal outcome of this quarrel as anything very serious, except for the fact t ...
The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and their neighbors, it might have been yesterday when t ...
True, he had called the rent agent a bastard of an Orangeman, but that, according to Gerald's way of looking at it, did not give the man any right to ...
There was no Orangeman this side of hell worth a hundred pounds to the British government or to the devil himself; but if the government felt so stron ...
He had come hastily, as many a better and worse Irishman before and since, with the clothes he had on his back, two shillings above his passage money ...
Shrewd man that he was, he knew that it was no less than a miracle that he, an Irishman with nothing of family and wealth to recommend him, should win ...