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Kernan was huddled together with cold. His friend asked him to tell how the accident had happened. "I'an't 'an," he answered, "'y 'ongue is hurt." "Show." The other leaned over the well of the car and peered into Mr. Kernan's mouth but he could not see. He struck a match and, sheltering it in the shell of his hands, peered again into the mouth which Mr. Kernan opened obediently.
The men hurriedly placed the women and children so that they were protected from the first onslaught of the soldiery. Then the men of St. Kernan's Hill, armed with huge stones and sticks, turned to meet the troops. Mr. Roche, the resident-magistrate, rode at their head. "Arrest that man," he cried, pointing to O'Connell. An angry growl went up from the mob.
It was here they placed his father that bleak November day here by the ditch. It was here his father gave up the struggle. The feeble pulse ebbed. The flame died out. The years stripped back. It seemed as yesterday. And here HE stood grown to manhood. He needed just that reminder to stir his blood and nerve him for the ordeal of St. Kernan's Hill. The old order was dying out in Ireland.
Kernan's Hill that afternoon. It was this meeting Father Cahill was determined to stop by every means in his power. He could hardly believe that this tall, bronzed, powerful young man was the Frank O'Connell he had watched about the village, as a boy pale, dejected, and with but little of the fire of life in him.
So she said: "I pity the poor priest that has to listen to your tale." Mr. Kernan's expression changed. "If he doesn't like it," he said bluntly, "he can... do the other thing. I'll just tell him my little tale of woe. I'm not such a bad fellow " Mr. Cunningham intervened promptly. "We'll all renounce the devil," he said, "together, not forgetting his works and pomps."
"Fighting O'Connell" he was nicknamed that day, and "Fighting O'Connell" he was known years afterwards to Dublin Castle. When he showed his mother his bruised knuckles that night and told her how he came by them, she cried again as she did two years before. Only this time they were tears of pride. From door to door he went. "St. Kernan's Hill at three," was all he said.
To the right sat old Michael Grimes, the owner of three pawnbroker's shops, and Dan Hogan's nephew, who was up for the job in the Town Clerk's office. Farther in front sat Mr. Hendrick, the chief reporter of The Freeman's Journal, and poor O'Carroll, an old friend of Mr. Kernan's, who had been at one time a considerable commercial figure. Gradually, as he recognised familiar faces, Mr.
He had been a clerk in the Midland Railway, a canvasser for advertisements for The Irish Times and for The Freeman's Journal, a town traveller for a coal firm on commission, a private inquiry agent, a clerk in the office of the Sub-Sheriff, and he had recently become secretary to the City Coroner. His new office made him professionally interested in Mr. Kernan's case. "Pain?
And then, as Kernan's ready finger kept the button and the waiter working, his weak point a tremendous vanity and arrogant egotism, began to show itself.
While the incidents of the foregoing chapters were taking place, the gentleman whose ownership shaped the destinies of many of the agitators of St. Kernan's Hill, was confronting almost as difficult a problem as O'Connell was facing on the mount. Whilst O'Connell was pleading for the right of Ireland to govern herself, Mr.
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