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The Absentee

CHAPTER VII
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It was for this special purpose he came to Ireland.
'Ah!--well--very good purpose--can't be better; but now, how to accomplish it.

You know the Portuguese proverb says, "You go to hell for the good things you intend to do, and to heaven for those you do." Now let us see what you will do.

Dublin, I suppose, you've seen enough of by this time; through and through--round and round this makes me first giddy and then sick.

Let me show you the country--not the face of it, but the body of it--the people.

Not Castle this, or Newtown that, but their inhabitants.


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