3/6 When the father makes a fool of himself, why wouldn't the daughter? His lordship indeed! a ruined estate and a tenantry in rags; and the only remedy, as Peter Gill tells me, raising the rents--raising the rents where every one is a pauper.' 'What would you have him do, Miss O'Shea ?' said Kate, almost angrily. I'd have him rise of a morning before nine o'clock, and be out with his labourers at daybreak. I'd have him reform a whole lazy household of blackguards, good for nothing but waste and wickedness. I'd have him apprentice your brother to a decent trade or a light business. |