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But the shame was not altogether a shameful one; a fanciful fear of degrading the chieftainship, and a vague sense of the thing being an imposition, had each a part in it. There could be nothing dishonest, however, in thus earning a shilling for poor mistress Conal! "I will carry your bag," he said, "but I must have the shilling first, if you please." "Oh!" rejoined Valentine Palmer.
"If the thing was right," pursued Ian, "no harm can come of it; if it was not right, no end of harm may come. Are you sure it was good for mistress Conal to have that shilling, Alister? What if it be drawing away her heart from him who is watching his old child in her turf-hut? What if the devil be grinning at her from, that shilling?"
Contempt would not stave off a land-slip! Mistress Conal, with a rage and scorn that made her feel every inch a witch, and accompanied by her black cat, which might or might not be the innocent animal the neighbours did not think him, hurried to the Macruadh, and informed him that "the lowland thief" had given her notice to quit the house of her fathers within a fortnight.
Returning northward he retook Castledermot, and inflicted chastisement on the warlike Abbot of Conal, near Naas, who shortly before attacked some Irish forces on the Curragh of Kildare, slaying two hundred men. Castledermot was retaken by the Lord Deputy Scrope the next year, with the aid of the Earls of Ormond and Desmond, and the Prior of Kilmainham, at the head of his Knights.
Brander and himself by feeding wild animals instead of men. To tell such land-owners that they are simply running a tilt at the creative energy, can be of no use: they do not believe in God, however much they may protest and imagine they do. The next day but one, he sent Mistress Conal the message that she must be out of her hut, goods and gear, within a fortnight.
In 1556, under one of their principal leaders, James, son of Conal, they laid siege to Carrickfergus and occupied Lord Sussex some six weeks in the glens of Antrim. Their leader finally entered into conditions, the nature of which may be inferred from the fact that he received the honour of knighthood on their acceptance.
"It won't take many minutes once it's well a going, and there's fire enough on the hearth to set Ben Cruachan in a blaze!" "Is everything out of it?" demanded the chief. "All but her cat. We've done our best, sir, and searched everywhere, but he's not to be found. There's nothing else left." "It's a lie!" screamed Mistress Conal.
"It won't take many minutes once it's well a going, and there's fire enough on the hearth to set Ben Cruachan in a blaze!" "Is everything out of it?" demanded the chief. "All but her cat. We've done our best, sir, and searched everywhere, but he's not to be found. There's nothing else left." "It's a lie!" screamed Mistress Conal.
Suddenly Mistress Conal broke out in a wild yet awful speech, wherein truth indeed was the fuel, but earthly wrath supplied the prophetic fire. Her friends suspended their talk, and her foes their work, to listen. English is by no means equally poetic with the Gaelic, regarded as a language, and ill-serves to represent her utterance.
"If the thing was right," pursued Ian, "no harm can come of it; if it was not right, no end of harm may come. Are you sure it was good for mistress Conal to have that shilling, Alister? What if it be drawing away her heart from him who is watching his old child in her turf-hut? What if the devil be grinning at her from, that shilling?"
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