[Orange and Green by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookOrange and Green CHAPTER 5: The Relief Of Derry 30/36
I shall do nothing, until this war is at an end.
If King William's cause triumphs, the act will remain a dead letter.
If King James's wins, and the act is upheld, I wish to tell you that I shall never disturb you in the land which you, yourselves, occupy.
Your tenants, on the other hand, will be my tenants; but in the house which you have built, and in the fields which you have tilled, you will remain masters. "I have thought the matter over, and this appears to me to be a just settlement, and one which I give you my word that I will hold to, should King James triumph in the end.
I think that the law turning out the Protestant settlers, from the land which they have held for forty years, is well nigh as unjust as that which gave it to them." "I will take no gifts at the hands of the wicked," Zephaniah began, but Jabez interrupted him. "Hush, father!" he said.
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