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The hardness of the people that would walk over you if it affected their pockets. I would have to close down the whole hotel, the travellers would be gone as fast as a burst of gunfire. She said that Eileen was a hard case herself with her cause & I said, but did you see howshe wouldn’t leave Donnacha in the lurch? Mrs Hayes’ eyes filled up then most unexpected. She told me that he started out as one of the Fianna, Countess Markievicz’s boys. & that made both of us crythinking how he was so young running messages back then, wearing his own small uniforms. Not even eighteen when theyswung him. Was that legal? I still don’t know& I am afraid to ask.

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