She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]

Who hath been a soldier O? Who hath soughten glory?

The Shows which had previously filled High Street from Bridgegate to the Kirk Vennel each April (for the Bogside Races) and at Marymass were banished to the Moor, then to the Golffields.

[T]his whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. In his desire to repair his first losses, my father risked double stakes, and thus incurred a debt of honour he was wholly unable to pay.