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Why not press into the service of instructive novelism truths stranger than fiction, among characters more marked, and names of higher note, than the whole hot-pressed family of the Fitzes? All this might be accomplished, were it worth the worry, in And now for a story of idolatry. It seems an absurdity, an insanity; it is one both. But think it out. Is it quite impossible, quite incredible?
Why not press into the service of instructive novelism truths stranger than fiction, among characters more marked, and names of higher note, than the whole hot-pressed family of the Fitzes? All this might be accomplished, were it worth the worry, in And now for a story of idolatry. It seems an absurdity, an insanity; it is one both. But think it out. Is it quite impossible, quite incredible?
The distinction between those Irish who were of Celtic blood, and those Irish who sprang from the followers of Strong-bow and De Burgh, was not altogether effaced. The Fitzes sometimes permitted themselves to speak with scorn of the Os and Macs; and the Os and Macs sometimes repaid that scorn with aversion.
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