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The Tithe-Proctor

CHAPTER IV
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Let me out, if you plaise--let me out, and may the div--the Lord lov you!" "Now," said the other, raising the blinds and afterwards opening the door, "you may go about your business, and mark me, Mr Hourigan--" "I do, sir," replied the other, bolting out "oh, God knows I do--you have marked me, Misther Purcel, and I will mark you, sir--for--" he added muttering in a low voice to those who stood about him--"one good turn desarves another, anyhow." We shall not now dwell upon the comments which young Purcel's violence drew from the defaulters on their way home.

Our reader, however, may easily imagine them, and form for themselves a presentiment of the length to which "the tithe insurrection," as they termed it, was likely to proceed throughout the country at large, with the exception only of the northern provinces..


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