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'What has he done? 'He's a Fenian a head-centre a man who wants to revolutionise Ireland, replied Miller. 'And destroy the Church, chimed in the priest. 'Humph! muttered Gorman, who seemed to imply, Is this all you can lay to his charge? 'Has he escaped? asked he suddenly. 'Up to this he has, said Miller.
He was the same who figured in the dock at, I believe, sixteen years of age, with Smith O'Brien and the others, and was afterwards seen in England in '59, known as a head-centre, and apprehended on suspicion in '60, and made his escape from Dartmoor the same year. There's a very pretty biography in skeleton, is it not? 'But, my dear Dick, how are you connected with him? 'Not very seriously.
The interior of the hut had a droll appearance. Bacon, sausages, meal-bags, and various other things were hanging from pegs fastened into the supports of the roof; and the gear belonging to ten sportsmen were stowed away somehow. The place might have passed for the head-centre of a band of brigands.
Paul Hartigan's estimate of the Whigs was such that it would have in nowise astonished him to discover that Mr. Gladstone was in close correspondence with O'Donovan Rossa, or that Chichester Fortescue had been sworn in as a head-centre. That the whole Cabinet were secretly Papists, and held weekly confession at the feet of Dr. Manning, he was prepared to prove. He did not vouch for Mr.
It was then that Palais Royal became the head-centre for debauch and abandon. It is from this epoch, too, that date the actual structures which to-day form this vast square of buildings, at all events their general outline is little changed to-day from what it was at that time.
"We have a head-centre here, Citizen Desmond, who will give you the most recent and the most authentic intelligence on that head." "The whole country is organized," said the head-centre; "we could put three hundred thousand men in the field at any time in a fortnight. The movement is not sectarian; it pervades all classes and all creeds. All that we want are officers and arms."
They tore down all Miller's notices and mine, they smashed our booths, beat our voters out of the town, and placed Donogan the rebel Donogan at the head of the poll, and the head-centre is now M.P. for King's County. 'And he has a right to sit in the House? 'There's the question. The matter is discussed every day in the newspapers, and there are as many for as against him.
I never saw him; but he is the private secretary, and, I believe, the nephew of the Viceroy, and would find it very strange company to be domiciled with a rebel. 'And you are a rebel? 'At your service, Mademoiselle Kostalergi. 'And a Fenian, and head-centre? 'A Fenian and a head-centre. 'And probably ought to be in prison?
Oravicza was so seductive with its pleasant society; its "land parties," as they call picnics; its evening dances, enlivened by gipsy music that I remained on and on from want of moral courage to tear myself away. I had thoughts of changing my plans altogether, and of devoting myself to a serious study of the minerals of the Banat, making gay little Oravicza my head-centre.
'Bye-bye, then, till Friday morning, said he, as he turned towards his desk, and began arranging a mass of papers before him. 'Here's a jolly mess with a vengeance, muttered Kearney, as he descended the stair. 'The Viceroy's private secretary to be domesticated with a "head-centre" and an escaped convict.
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