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CHAPTER XXXII. MR. O'MAHONY AS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
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Frank Jones had travelled backwards1 and forwards between Morony Castle and the North more than once since these things were doing, and had met the new member for Cavan together with Rachel on the very evening on which poor Florian had been murdered. It was not till the next morning that the news had become generally known. "I am sorry to hear, Frank," said Rachel, "that you are all doing so badly at Morony Castle."
"Badly enough."
"Are you fetching all these people down from here to do the work the men there ought to do? How are the men there to get their wages?"
"That is the essence of boycotting2," said Frank. "The men there won't get their wages, and can only live by robbing the governor and men like him of their rents. And in that way they can't live long. Everything will be disturbed and ruined."
"It seems to me," said Rachel, "that the whole country is coming to an end."
"Your father is Member of Parliament now, and of course he will set it all to rights."
"He will at any rate do his best to do so," said Rachel, "and will rob no man in the doing it. What do you mean to do with yourself?"
"Stick to the ship till it sinks, and then go down with it."
"And your sisters?"
"They are of the same way of thinking, I take it. They are not good at inventing any way of getting out of their troubles; but they know how to endure."
"Now, Frank," said she, "shall I give you a bit of advice?"
"Oh yes! I like advice."
"You wanted to kiss me just now."
"That was natural at any rate."
"No, it wasn't;—because you and I are two. When a young man and a young woman are two they shouldn't kiss any more. That is logic3."
"I don't know about logic."
"At any rate it is something of the same sort. It is the kind of thing everybody believes in if they want to go right. You and I want to go right, don't we?"
"I believe so."
"Of course we do," and she took hold of his arm and shook him. "It would break your heart if you didn't think I was going right, and why shouldn't I be as anxious about you? Now for my piece of advice. I am going to make a lot of money."
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