[An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookAn Eye for an Eye CHAPTER IV 19/24
"You'll have a fierce pig of a mother-in-law, Mr.Neville," said the Captain, "but your wife's father,--you'll find him always gentle and open to reason. You were asking what I wanted." "Had I not better give him money ?" suggested Neville. "No," said the priest shaking his head. "Certainly," said Captain O'Hara. "If you will leave this place at once," said Neville, "and come to me to-morrow morning at the Ennis barracks, I will give you money." "Give him none," said Mrs.O'Hara. "My beloved is unreasonable.
You would not be rid of me even were he to be so hard.
I should not die.
Have I not proved to you that I am one whom it is hard to destroy by privation.
The family has been under a cloud.
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