[Willy Reilly by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookWilly Reilly CHAPTER XXI 34/46
They will tell us it would be a prostitution of the prerogative of the Crown to connive at crime in the rich and punish it in the poor.
And, again, there's the devil of it; your beggarly want of hospitality in the first place, and the cursed swaggering severity with which you carried out your loyalty, by making unexpected domiciliary visits to the houses of loyal but humane Protestant families, with the expectation of finding a priest or a Papist under their protection: both these, I say, have made you the most unpopular man in the county; and, upon my soul, Sir Robert, I don't think there will be a man upon the grand jury whose family you have not insulted by your inveterate loyalty.
No one, I tell! you, likes a persecutor.
Still, I say, I'll try what I can do with the grand jury.
I'll see my friends and yours--if you have any now; make out a list of them in a day or two--and you may rest assured that I will leave nothing undone to extricate you." "Thank you, Mr.Folliard; but do you know why I am here ?" "To be sure I do." "No, you don't, sir.
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