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Lord Kilgobbin

CHAPTER XIX
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When the father makes a fool of himself, why wouldn't the daughter?
The whole country is laughing at him.

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'll tell you what I'd have him do.

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.


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