argument was taken up by other and ned began to see he had the youth of the country on his side he was speaking at the end of the week at another great meeting and received even better support at this meeting than he had done at the first and he returned home wondering what his wife was thinking of his sue but what matter ireland was waking from the great sleep of and at the next parish it seemed as if the impossible were going to happen and that the was going to be free the had and he applied himself to setting the inferior clergy against their and at meetings he told the that they were no better than the parish priests in comfortable and drank champagne but the lived hj the and ate and drank little and did all the work one day at it was decided that had legitimate and that the people had that were likewise legitimate and at this great council it was decided that the heavy marriage and the demanded by the priests should be reduced and it seemed as if the clergy were going to be defeated but an on ned s part gave them the victory in a moment of excitement he was unwise enough to quote john s words that the irish would be free long ago only for their damned souls a priest wrote to the newspapers pointing out that after these words there could be no further doubt that it was the doctrine of the french revolution that mr was to force upon a christian people a bishop wrote saying that the words quoted were fit words for anti christ after that it was difficult for a priest to appear on the same platform and the whose had been deserted and the fight became an impossible one very soon ned s meetings were interrupted disagreeable scenes began to happen and his letters were not admitted to the newspapers a great solitude formed about him well he said one evening i suppose you have read the account in the paper of my escape that is what they called it the wheel said is going round ton may be at the bottom now but the wheel is going round only there is no use opposing the people in their traditions in their instinct � � � and whether the race is destined to disappear or to continue it s certain that the last will die a catholic and the red indian will die with the at his we won t talk about religion we ll talk about things we are agreed upon i have heard u yourself that you would not go back to america again � that you never enjoyed life till you came here that was because i met you i have heard you praise ireland as being the most beautiful and sympathetic country in the world it is true that i love these people and i wish i could become one of them you would become one of them and yet you would tear them to pieces because they are not what you want them to be chap viii he used to go for long walks on the hills and one day lying in the amid the rough grass his eyes following the course of the ships in the bay he remembered his book a western every race he said has its own special genius the have or have had music the french and have or have had painting and the english have or have had poetry the irish had and alas they still have their special genius � there is as little free love in ireland as there is free thought men have ceased to care for women and women have ceased to care for men nothing in ireland but the the priest the and the ox he laughed a little and turning on his side and the warm grass with his hand he remembered how the passion of love the direct inspiration of all the world s art has been degraded in ireland how it has been reduced to the mere act of children there are no in ireland he said and are the outward sign of inward grace that which to life is the only evil that which life is the only good nor is there any intellectual passion there is not even religious only religious said that the last would die a catholic and she s right he will die clinging to the of a priest but why should i lament what has he ever done the and the cross of and s chapel have never been but ireland stopped there and suddenly it seemed as if god had intended the to do something but had changed hia mind that change happened in the tenth century and since then the has produced an incredible number of priests and some of the finest and a few clever lawyers but nothing more serious a kindly sympathetic fellow that likes that i love dearly and that i came to save but he would not listen knows his destiny and the knows his � and it is to disappear his eyes followed the course of the ships in the bay and he said was it accident or my own fantastic temperament that brought me back from and for what purpose was i brought back to climb half way up the and to be pulled down by the leg all irish have been pulled back � perhaps all are pulled back and yet i m unwilling to believe that accident brought me back to ireland and involved me in the destiny of ireland for no purpose he did not need to take the book from his he knew the passage well and repeated it word for word while he watched the ships in the bay we were friends and we have become strangers one to the other ah 