[The Emigrants Of Ahadarra by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Emigrants Of Ahadarra CHAPTER XXV 36/37
Go now, for undher my roof you'll never come again.
If you can--reform your life--an' live at all events, as if there was a God above you.
Before you go answer me;--what made you bring in Bat Hogan to rob me ?" "Simply," replied his son, "because I wished to make him and them feel that I had them in my power--and now you have it." [Illustration: PAGE 635-- Hycy received the money, set spurs to his horse] Hycy received the money, set spurs to his horse, and was out of sight in a moment--"Ah!" exclaimed the old man, with bitterness of soul, "what mightn't he be if his weak and foolish mother hadn't taken it into her head to make a gentleman of him! But now she reaps as she sowed.
She's punished--an' that's enough."-- And thus does Hycy the accomplished make his exit from our humble stage. "Gintlemen," said Finigan, "now that the accomplished Mr.Hycy is disposed of, I beg to state, that it will be productive of much public good to the country to expatriate these three virtuous worthies, _qui nomine gaudent_ Hogan--and the more so as it can be done on clear legal grounds.
They are a principal means of driving this respectable young man, Bryan M'Mahon, and his father's family, out of the land of their birth; and there will be something extremely appropriate--and indicative besides of condign and retributive punishment--in sending them on their travels at his Majesty's expense.
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