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Updated: May 11, 2025
Crossan always interjects "my lord" and "your lordship" into the middle of the remarks he makes to me; but he says the words in a very peculiar tone. It always seems to me that he wishes to emphasize the difference in our social station because he feels that the advantage is all on his side. "The rank," so his tone suggests, "is but the guinea stamp.
"There cannot have been a catch of mackerel." When there is a catch of mackerel the fish are packed in boxes on the pier, and carts, laden like the one we watched, climb the hill. There is a regularly organized service of those carts under the control of Crossan. "It can't be fish," I said, "unless the Finola has been making a catch and has come in here to land them."
Those carters are in it, whatever it is, and a lot more men, fishermen and young farmers. They're up there every night." "Probably dancing," I said. "Much more likely to be drinking." "I wish you wouldn't talk nonsense, Godfrey. You know perfectly well that the store has not got a licence, and there's no drink sold there. Besides Crossan is a fanatical teetotaller."
"That wouldn't stop him," said Godfrey, "if he could sell the stuff cheap and make money on it; if" here he sank his voice "if it hadn't paid duty." Now Crossan is one of those Christians who has added to the original Ten Commandments a Mohammedan prohibition of alcohol in any form.
There, as a lover of peace rather than justice, I wanted to let the matter rest; but Godfrey took up the subject again and again in the course of the following year. He persisted, not out of any love for justice though this once he was on the side of justice, but simply out of hatred of Crossan. "It's not only the dismissal of those carters," said Godfrey. "There's a great deal more behind that.
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