Revolution #03 - Fire and Sword by Simon Scarrow

Author:Simon Scarrow [Scarrow, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Historical
ISBN: 9780755324385
Publisher: HEADLINE
Published: 2009-01-08T00:13:52+00:00

‘Quite enough, thank you.’

‘Very well, sir.’ Stoper bowed his head and made his way to the door. There he paused and looked back.

‘Well?’ Arthur raised an eyebrow. ‘What is it?’

‘If I may say so, sir, you did the right thing.’

‘Of course I did,’ Arthur replied coolly. ‘Any bloody fool can see that.’

‘Yes, sir.’ Stoper smiled and left the room, closing the door behind him.

Chapter 29

In an effort to better understand the public mood across Ireland, Arthur took his carriage and, together with Stoper, toured the counties with an escort of dragoons. What he found did not encourage him. In village after village he saw the same ramshackle cabins of the poor who barely eked out a living on the scraps of land they could afford to rent. The landowners were, for the most part, living in England - far from the troubles they had helped to provoke by keeping rents high and leaving their estates in the hands of agents who were intent on earning a comfortable commission by squeezing every last penny out of the hard-pressed tenants.

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