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George Wyndham, generous, imaginative, a man among politicians, insisted that the agrarian agony of evictions, shootings, and rack-rentings should end with the individual Irish getting, as Parnell had put it, a grip on their farms.
Shootings and assassinations made him clench his fists, with threats of vengeance; but the robberies authorized by the heads, the wholesale sackings by superior order, followed by fire, appeared to him so unheard-of that he was silent with stupefaction, his speech seeming to be temporarily paralyzed.
"Clayville appears to be a lively kind of place," I said. "Do you often have shootings down here?" "We do," said Moore, rather gravely; "it is one of our institutions with which I could dispense." "And do you 'carry iron, as the Greeks used to say, or 'go heeled, as your citizens express it?" "No, I don't; neither pistol nor knife. If any one shoots me, he shoots an unarmed man.
I like to see 'em bright and ganial. I don't know that I ever shot so much as a sparrow, meself, but I love to hear them talk of their shootings, and huntings, and the like of that. I've taken a fancy to that boy, and he might do pretty much as he plazes wid me." "And I too have taken a fancy to him, Father Marty." "Shure and how could you help it?" "But he mustn't do as he pleases with me."
"They say it's like the days of the terror in the 'sixties' over again, tortures and shootings and knoutings; and that the Cossacks stripped a woman and knouted her to death one day last week; did you hear of that?" "I tell you I don't mean to speak of anything that I've seen or heard!" I said, feeling that I wanted to kick him.
Of thirty who were tried with him as his agents, and convicted of assisting at the drownings, shootings, &c. two only were executed, the rest were acquitted; because, though the facts were proved, the moral latitude of the Revolutionary Jury* did not find the guilt of the intention that is, the culprits were indisputably the murderers of several thousand people, but, according to the words of the verdict, they did not act with a counter-revolutionary intention.
Yes, shootings were not uncommon. Every one but he, Saurez, had likely forgotten all about the matter. That was long ago. Afterwards Vorse had sent the Mexican away for something or other, with an injunction to keep his mouth closed.
Harry and Laura had also been "interviewed" and there was a statement from Philip himself, which a reporter had knocked him up out of bed at midnight to give, though how he found him, Philip never could conjecture. What some of the journals lacked in suitable length for the occasion, they made up in encyclopaedic information about other similar murders and shootings.
This Commission was very dilatory in the performance of its duty and it is very doubtful if they ever came to any decision. Analogous manifestations took place at Moscow, at Saratov and other cities; everywhere they were accompanied by shootings. The number of victims was particularly considerable at Moscow. At the Taurida Palace on the Day of the Opening of the Constituent Assembly
A few years later a lease was granted by the Fife trustees of the period of the grouse shootings of Benrinnes, the wide moorlands of the parishes of Glass, Mortlach, and Aberlour, including Glenmarkie the best moor in the county, at a rent of L100 a year with four miles of salmon water on Spey thrown in.
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