He lived in a way in which I don't intend to live, and so he could pay the rent.

Now, I must have, and I mean to have, out of the land, before I pay the rent, the means of living as I wish to live; and if I can't have it, I'll sell out and go away; but I'll be--if I don't fight before I do that same!'" "What could you reply to that ?" I asked.
"Oh," I said, "'that's square and straightforward.

Only just let me know the point at which you mean to fight, and then we'll see if we can agree about something.'" "The truth is," said Mr.Seigne, "that there is a pressure upward now from below.

The labourers don't want to live any longer as the farmers have always made them live; and so the farmers, having to consider the growing demands of the labourers, and meaning to live better themselves, push up against the landlord, and insist that the means of the improvement shall come out of him." He then told me an instructive story of his calling upon a tenant-farmer, at whose place he found the labourers sitting about their meal of pork and green vegetables.

The farmer asked him into another room, where he saw the farmer's family making their meal of stirabout and milk and potatoes.
"I asked you in here," said the farmer, "because we keep in here to ourselves.