"The character of the people makes it so; the Irish are so sentimental." Upon the young man's ear this utterance fell strangely; it gave him a little shock, and he could only murmur some commonplace of assent.

With men, Piers had plenty of moral courage, but women daunted him.
"I heard a capital idea last night," resumed Arnold Jacks, "from a man I was dining with--interesting fellow called Hannaford.

He suggested that Ireland should be made into a military and naval depot--used solely for that purpose.

The details of his scheme were really very ingenious.

He didn't propose to exterminate the natives----" John Jacks interrupted with hilarity, which his son affected to resent: the look exchanged by the two making pleasant proof of how little their natural affection was disturbed by political and other differences.