Make up your minds then,
childre'; there's a curse on the counthry. Many o' the landlords are
bad enough, too bad, and too neglectful, God knows; but sure the people
themselves is as bad, an' as senseless on the other hand; aren't they
blinded so much by their bad feelin's, and short-sighted passions, that
it is often the best landlords they let out their revenge upon. Prepare
then, childre'; for out of the counthry, or at any rate from among the
people, the poverty and the misery that's in it, wid God's assistance,
we'll go while we're able to do so."
CHAPTER XII.--Mystery Among the Hogans
--Finigan Defends the Absent.
The three Hogans, whom we have lost sight of for some time, were, as our
readers already know, three most unadulterated ruffians, in every
sense of that most respectable term. Yet, singular as it may appear,
notwithstanding their savage brutality, they were each and all possessed
of a genius for mechanical inventions and manual dexterity that was
perfectly astonishing when the low character of their moral, and
intellectual standard is considered. Kate Hogan, who, from her position,
could not possibly be kept out of their secrets, at least for any length
of time, was forced to notice of late that there was a much closer and
more cautious intimacy between Hycy Burke and them than she had ever
observed before.
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