[Peg O’ My Heart by J. Hartley Manners]@TWC D-Link bookPeg O’ My Heart CHAPTER V 6/16
Angela must be checked and at once. Before he could begin to check her, however, Angela answered his question: "It wouldn't be enough for me if I had the responsibilities and duties of a landlord.
To be the owner of an estate should be to act as the people's friend, their father, their adviser in times of plenty and their comrade in times of sorrow." "Indeed? And pray where did you learn all that, Miss ?" asked the astonished parent. Without noticing the interruption or the question, Angela went on: "Why deny a country its own government when England is practically governed by its countrymen? Is there any position of prominence today in England that isn't filled by Irishmen? Think.
Our Commander-in-Chief is Irish: our Lord High Admiral is Irish: there are the defences of the English in the hands of two Irishmen and yet you call them thieving and rascally scoundrels." Kingsnorth tried to speak; Angela raised her voice: "Turn to your judges--the Lord Chief is an Irishman.
Look at the House of Commons.
Our laws are passed or defeated by the Irish vote, and yet so blindly ignorant and obstinate is our insular prejudice that we refuse them the favours they do us--governing THEMSELVES as well as England." Kingsnorth looked at his daughter aghast.
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