It's very enlightenin'." "What happened ?" "The poor wretched, evicted people burnt down every dwellin' and tree on the place, sir." "I would know how to handle such ruffians." "That's what Kilkee thought.

'Tache them a lesson,' said he.

'Turn them into the ditches!' And he DID.

HE thought he KNEW how to handle them.
He woke up with a jump one mornin' when he found a letter from the under-steward tellin' him his Scotch master was in the hospital with a bullet in his spleen, and the beautiful house and grounds were just so much blackened ashes." "It seems to me, my good man, there is a note of agreement with such methods, in your tone." "Manin' the evictin' or the burnin', yer honour ?" "You know what I mean," and Kingsnorth's voice rose angrily.
"I think I do," answered Burke quietly.
"I want an agent who is devoted to my interests and to whom the people are secondary." "Then ye'd betther send to England for one, sir.

The men devoted to landlords and against the people are precious few in this part of Ireland, sir." "Do you intend that I should act on that ?" "If ye wish.