"It is not thus that kindness should be met." Then he stepped forward, leaving his father too surprised, at this sudden assumption of command on the part of his son, to interrupt him.
"Captain Davenant," he said, "I thank you most sincerely, on the part of myself, my wife and son, and, I may say, of my father, too, although at present he may not realize the kindness of your offer.

I do not think it likely that, if James Stuart prevails, and Ireland is rent from England, we shall avail ourselves of your offer, for we have more than sufficient of this world's goods to remove to England, and there settle ourselves and our son, for assuredly Ireland would be no place where a Protestant could dwell in peace and quietness.

Nevertheless, I thank you heartily, and shall ever gratefully bear in mind the promise you have made, and the fact that, although you have the power to turn us from our home, you have stayed from doing so.

There has been much wrong done on both sides; and, from a boy, when I have seen you ride into or from your home, I have felt that I and mine wronged you, by being the possessors of your father's lands." "They were the spoil of battle," Zephaniah broke in fiercely.
"Yes, they were the spoil of battle," his son repeated; "but there are limits, even to the rights of conquerors.

I have read history, and I know that nowhere but in Ireland did conquerors ever dispossess whole peoples, and take possession of their lands." "The Israelites took the land of Canaan," Zephaniah interrupted.
"I am speaking of modern wars, father.