They had voted for the gentleman who gave them employment, and who happened besides, to entertain opinions which they approved.

M'Clutchy's object was to remove them from the property, in order that he might replace them with a more obedient and less conscientious class; for this was his principle of action under such circumstances.
It so happened that there lived among them a man named O'Regan, who, in point of comfort, was at the head of this little community.

He was a quiet and an affectionate individual, industrious, sober, and every way well conducted.

This inoffensive and virtuous man, and Iris faithful wife, had been for some time before the period we are describing, under the shadow of deep affliction.

Their second child, and his little brother, together with the eldest, who for two or three years before had been at service in England, were all that had been spared to them--the rest having died young.