[The Felon’s Track by Michael Doheny]@TWC D-Link bookThe Felon’s Track CHAPTER V 20/36
Prostitutes of both sexes regarded them as fit subjects for their insolent raillery.
The avowed foes of nationality looked on them as fools; its pretended friends as knaves; and the common herd of indifferent villains as a butt.
The low retainers of the English garrison, who had sold their souls to the enemy but were kept in awe by bodily fear, became outrageously patriotic; and with insulted gratitude they scouted the traducers of the "saviour of their country." Alas! in Ireland, nothing was saved but death's agencies.
Doom had come upon all--her produce, her people, her hopes and her morality. The same report, which contained the Peace Resolutions, set out with a statement dissevering the Association from the _Nation_ newspaper.
If the statement were embodied in a resolution of expulsion, it would clash directly with the failure of the prosecution against it, and brand the jurors who refused to find a verdict with perjury.
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