King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath.

A Chinese proverb goes, He who commits wrongdoing repeatedly will come to no good end.

make a u-turn

They were sitting across from each other at the bar as Lionel described his odyssey across the country in a Trailways bus, gathering material, as he put it. It was all grist for the mill, life real and raw out there west of New Jersey.