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But however this may be, it is as well to bear witness to some of the elements of my own experience; and I can answer for it, at least, that there are some people in the South who will not be pleased at being swept into the rubbish heap of history as rebels and ruffians; and who will not, I regret to say, by any means enjoy even being classed with Fenians and Sinn Feiners.
The kitchenmaid, stirred from her private grief by the news, left her potatoes and came to the kitchen. She and Molly clung to each other. "It's the Sinn Feiners," she said, "and they're out for blood." "Where's the police?" said Molly. "What good is the police that they wouldn't be here and us being murdered?" "It's blood they want," said the kitchenmaid, "and if s blood they'll have."
In a word, to use the words of an English critic, "It gave the Sinn Feiners the real victory, for it was looked upon as the verification of all that they had feared and prophesied, and for which they had, until that point, been looked upon as fools and scaremongers."
The attempt on the part of the Sinn Feiners therefore to establish such an extreme and antiquated definition was strictly against nature a retrospective move, in other words, as against the blending progressive force of evolution represented by Parliamentarianism. At the same time it would be hard to find a more fruitful, inspiring, or elevating passage than the following:
When he returned to Henry, he said, "You know, when we got 'ere, an' all the people come out their 'ouses an' treated us like their long-lost brother, we couldn't make it out at all, an' when we 'eard about the Sinn Feiners, we didn't know wot to think. I mean to say, we didn't know 'oo they was.
So far at any rate Sinn Féiners must admit that "beacoup de bruit, pen de fruit" sums up their action in regard to Irish affairs.
This step seemed to make an end of Home Rule, and strengthened the Sinn Feiners enormously all over the country." A general desire for peace and a sort of Socialistic feeling of brotherhood, I should say, were two further contributory causes. "The prolongation of the war and its dubious end," as Mr. Birrell observed, "turned many heads.
She was in no mood for talking about the Irish Rebellion. She had convinced herself that all Sinn Feiners were in German pay, and naught else mattered. Never, she thought, had the British Government carried ingenuousness further than in this affair! Given a free hand, Christine with her strong, direct common sense would have settled the Irish question in forty-eight hours.
"The courage of the Sinn Feiners atoned for much of their folly in the mind of those who realized that their spirit was not pro-German, but, in the main, a revolt against the conversion of Dublin Castle into a Redmondite Tammany Hall. Their uprising was the answer to the corruption, jobbery, and judge-mongering of the Molly Maguires masquerading in the vestments of religion.
Then the rumour changed, and it was said that the Pope had thrown himself from the roof of the Vatican. Lord Wimborne, the Viceroy, had been taken a prisoner, and was now interned in Liberty Hall.... The Orangemen, sick of England, were marching to the support of the Sinn Feiners, under the leadership of Mr. Joseph Devlin!
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