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The Macdermots of Ballycloran is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September and completed by.
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Chapter 11 Just some tweaking. Here Trollope expands upon the character of the duplicitous Pat Brady, ready to leave the sinking ship of the Macdermots and looking for ways no matter how dishonest to ingratiate himself with Keegan; while at the same time trying to lure Thady into the local plots against Keegan and Myles Ussher: He felt, therefore, that as it was probable that Ballycloran would become his own, Pat Brady's assured services might be of great utility; and he found but little difficulty in obtaining them.

Pat was clever enough to foresee that the days of the Macdermots were over, and that it was necessary for him to ingratiate himself with the probable future "masther;" and though he, of course, made sufficiently good market of his treachery, he felt that in all ways he consulted his own interest best in making himself useful to Keegan. He had dim prospects, too, of great worldly advantages which might accrue from being chief informer to so conspicuous a man as Mr Keegan was likely to prove himself, and, with no false self-vanity, he felt himself qualified for such a situation.

There was considerable danger in being always among people of a wild and savage nature, to entrap and ensnare whom would be his duty, and he felt that he had the requisite courage. Moreover, there was a certain cunning and prudence necessary, and in that also he, with some truth, fancied himself not deficient; and as Mr. Keegan's scheme opened upon him, the idea of entrapping his young master into the difficulties which lay around, offered not a bad opportunity for the display of his talents Let the police use such open means as they haveand, God knows, in Ireland they should be effective enough; but I cannot but think the system of secret informersto which those in positions of inferior authority too often have recourse—has greatly increased crime in many districts of Ireland.

I by no means intend to assert that this system is patronised or even recognised by Government. I believe the contrary most fully; but those to whom the execution of the criminal laws in detail are committed, and who look to obtain advancement and character by their activity, do very frequently employ what I must call a most iniquitous system of espionage.

Chapter 12 Minor tweaking. We get the impression that Trollope had himself attended just such a working-class wedding. However, it's importance is the subsidiary gathering of the aspiring "ribbonmen", including the brothers of the recently jailed men, under the invitation of Pat Brady.

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We see here that Father McGrath is not so aware of what is going on in his parish as he thinksnor of the characters with whom he has to deal. When McGovery tries to warn him about the growing danger to Ussher, he rejects the idea that Brady could be involved in such plots; assuming that only the very poor might be driven to such extremes. But, Denis, those men from Drumleesh could hardly know Captain Ussher was going to be at the wedding to-night. Isn't he comfortable enough. We note, however, that it is Feemy's situation above all else which is motivating him: His father's statethe impossibility of carrying on the war any longer against the enmity of Flannelly and Keeganhis own forlorn prospectsthe insult and blow he had just received from the overbearing, heartless lawyerbut, above all, Feemy's condition, and his fears respecting her, were too much for him to bear.

After his sister and Captain Ussher had left Ballycloran, he had gone up to the house and had swallowed a couple of glasses of raw whiskey, to drive, as he said to himself, the sorrow out of his heart; and he had now come down to seek the friends whom Brady had recommended to him, and determined, at whatever cost, to revenge himself, by their aid, against Keegan, for the insults he had heaped upon him, and against Ussher for the name which, he believed, he had put upon his sister Chapter 13 A long and important chapter, and almost untouched.

The only significant change is a reduction in the number of times that a drunken Thady says "damned" or rather, "dd" , not just in itself, but in front of Father John. The first half of the chapter finds Ussher trying to warn Thady against Pat Brady, but Thady is too angry, too proud and too drunk to listen. He is then drawn into the meeting of the ribbonmen. But when you've taken the oath we've all taken, we'll be ready then not only to tell you all, but follow you anywhere.

Isn't Keegan the man you've most cause to hate, an' won't we right you with him? Don't we hate that bloody Captain that is this moment playing his villain's tricks with your own sisther in the next room there? By the holy Virgin, when you're one of us, it's not much longer he shall throuble you. If you can put up with what the likes of them is doing to youif you can bear all thatwhy, Mr Thady, you're not the man I took you for.

But mind, divil a penny of rint 'll ever go to Ballycloran agin from Drumleesh; for the matter's up now;you're either our frind or our inimy. But if, Mr Thady, you've the pluck they all says you havean' which I iver see in you, God bless you! He does, however, swear not to reveal what he has heard. Leaving the gathering, the anger which the rebels have been at pains to provoke spills over, and there is a violent verbal confrontation between Thady and Ussher, which does not lead to physical violence only because Father John returns in time to quell it. Chapter 14 There is some trimming here, not important, but again shortening the time we spend inside Father John's head; and also reducing some of the fine detail of the situation between Thady and Ussher: As soon as he had finished his breakfast on the morning after the night's events just recorded, Father John took his hat and stick, and walked down to Drumsna, still charitably intent on finding some means to soften, if he could not avert, the storm which he saw must follow the scenes he had witnessed on the previous evening.

He was quite sure that Ussher would not stay away from Ballycloran in consequence of what had occurred; he felt that, even supposing he was willing enough to do so, and to break with Feemy, the very fact of Thady's having warned him, as it were, off the premises, would induce him to be more there than ever, as Ussher would have considered it want of pluck to stay away because Thady had told him to do so The trimming of the section dealing with Feemy's situation I suspect was to keep the focus upon the necessity of separating her from Ussher, and conversely her determination that won't happenso the prosaic details of why else she might not want to leave home were removed.

Then her father might object, or there might be other domestic reasons; her wardrobe might not be in a visiting stateand the funds to make it so might be deficient. Father John, however, felt himself to be no mean diplomatist; and he sallied forth, fully trusting that his mission would terminate successfullydesiring Judy his housemaid, should young Macdermot call in the interval, to be sure to use some means of retaining him till his return. As Father John was entering Drumsna This chapter does two things: it hints for the first real time that though the gossip about Feemy and Ussher might be wrong, she might indeed be desperate enough to hold him to be persuaded into running away with him; and it shows Father John misunderstanding the immediacy of the threat posed by thady's involvement with the ribbonmen.

There is also a suggestion that in his efforts to help Thady, and the natural optimism of his nature, Father John may be erring too far on the side of caution: For Thady's saketo screen his character, and because he did not think there was any immediate dangerhe had given the affair the turn which it had just taken; but he himself fearedmore than fearedfelt sure that there was too much truth in what the man had said.

Thady's unusual intoxication last nighthis brutal conduct to his sisterto Ussher, and to himselfthe men with whom he had been drinkinghis own knowledge of the feeling the young man entertained towards Keegan, and the hatred the tenants felt for the attorneyall these things conspired to convince Father John that McGovery had too surely overheard a conversation, which, if repeated to Keegan, might probably, considering how many had been present at it, give him a desperate hold over young Macdermot, which he would not fail to use, either by frightening him into measures destructive to the property, or by proceeding criminally against him.

Father John was not only greatly grieved that such a meeting should have been held, with reference to its immediate consequences, but he was shocked that Thady should so far have forgotten himself and his duty as to have attended it. But with the unceasing charity which made the great beauty of Father John's character, he, in his heart, instantly made allowances for him He remembered, however, that he had insulted Ussher; this did not annoy him; but he had a faint recollection of having committed his sister's name, by talking of her in his drunken brawl, and of having done, or said something, he knew not what, to Father John.

It seemed as if in repulsing him as he had, he had broken the only link between himself and propriety; he had now, he thought, no friends to fall back uponno one to rely onno one to trust tothere was nothing left for him now but to join the murderous schemes of his late low companions, and drown his sorrow in the recollection of all those things he had loved in the excitement of their enterprises and the noise of their society. Though Thady had never known the refinements of a gentleman There is also another almost throwaway line - not cut - showing Trollope's sympathy with the hopeless position of the Irish farmers, with even good men like Mr McKeon exploiting their position: He had a large farm on a profitable lease; he underlet a good deal of land by con-acre, or corn-acre; few of my English readers will understand the complicated misery to the poorest of the Irish which this accursed word embraces The first half of this chapter deals with Father John persuading Mrs McKeon to invite Feemy to her house, either to force Ussher to a point, or to separate the two of them.

That Mrs McKeon has heard the ugly gossip shows how pervasive it is. The second half deals with Thady's mental state as he contemplates joining the ribbonmen in actuality: his awareness he is on a slippery slope on one hand, but his feeling of desperate isolation from his friends on the other. Above all, perhaps, we see his consciousness that he is putting himself in the hands of men who won't mhesitate to save themselves by betraying him: Though Thady had never known the refinements of a gentleman, or the comforts of good society, still he felt that the fall, even from his present station to that in which he was going to place himself, would be dreadful.

But it was not the privations which he might suffer, but the disgrace, the additional disgrace which he would bring on his family, which afflicted him.

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How could he now presume to prescribe to Feemy what her conduct should be, or to his father in what way he should act respecting the property? He already felt as though he was unworthy of either of them, and was afraid to look them in the face. After breakfast he wandered forth, striving to attend to his usual work, but the incentives to industry were all gone; he had no longer any hope that industry would be of service to him; he walked along the hedges and ditches, unconsciously planning in his mind the different ways of committing the crimes which he really so abhorred, but in which he was about to pledge himself to join.

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He thought, if it should be his lot to murder Keegan, how he would accomplish it. Should it be at night? Chapter 16 Part 1 Mostly just tweaking, plus a minor cut: This was all said and done so pleasantly, that Feemy did not detect any other motive in her friend's civility than the one which was apparent, and after a little pressing, agreed to accept the invitation. She did not remember at the moment that the regular habits of Mrs McKeon's house would prevent her from enjoying the liberty to which she was accustomed, and the prospect of the races and the ball, and the change from the dullness of Ballycloran, seemed to promise nothing but pleasure and satisfaction.

It was at last agreed that Mrs. McKeon was to call for her on the Monday following, when, if her father made no objection, she would accompany her home to Drumsna. Another chapter of two halves. The first reveals Myles Ussher's professional promotion, which requires his transfer to Cashel in County Tipperaryand his imminent departure from Mohill. One of the things I found most infuriating in reading around this novel was the tendency of commentators male commentators, I am obliged to add to excuse Ussher's treatment of Feemy.

For example, in the introduction to the Trollope Society edition, Owen Dudley Edwards says: "As for Ussher, the novel leaves little doubt that he would have been true to Feemy had she possessed more of the character of Thady Feemy is of course the product of her environment. She could not have had "more character" unless she had been raised under entirely different circumstances. And had she actually had "more character", far from being true to her, Ussher would have sheered off altogetherbecause then it would have been marriage or nothing.

As it is, the text makes it quite clear that, whatever he said to Feemy, Ussher never meant marriage: All this was so far gratifying, but still he was perplexed to think what he should do about Feemy. It was true he could leave her, and let her, if she chose, break her heart; or he might promise to come back and marry her, when he was settled, with the intention of taking no further notice of her after he had left the place;and so let her break her heart that way.

But he was too fond of her for this; he could not decide what he would do; and when he came up to see her at the present time, the only conclusion to which he could bring himself with certainty was this that nothing should induce him to marry her ; but still he did not like to leave her This ugly scene finds Ussher trying to persuade Feemy to go away with him unmarriedunder a promise to marry her later, of course, which he has no intention of keepingof course. He tells lie after lie to Feemy to convince her that they cannot be married at oncefirst putting it on the grounds of the "insults" offered to him by Thady and Father John and then, when even Feemy won't swallow this, arguing instead that an immediate marriage would perhaps cost him his promotion.

She, poor girl, at first received the offer with sobs and tears. She proposed a clandestine marriage, but he swore that when afterwards detected, it would cause his dismissal;—then that she would come to him at Cashel, when he was settled; but no,he told her other lies equally false, to prove that this could not be done. She prayed and begged, and lay upon his bosom imploring him to spare her this utter degradation; but now that the proposal had been fairly made, that he had got her to discuss the plan, his usual sternness returned; and at last he told her, somewhat roughly, that if she would not come with him in the manner he proposed, he would leave her now and for ever.

Poor Feemy fell with her knees on the ground and her face on the sofa, and there she lay sobbing for many minutes, while he again stood silent with his back against the fireplace. During this time, old feelings, principles, religious scruples, the love of honour and fair fame, and the fear of the world's harsh word, were sorely fighting in her bosom; they were striving to enable her to conquer the strong love she felt for Ussher, and make her reject the disgrace to which he was alluring her.

Then he stooped to lift her up, and as he kissed the tears from her face, passion prevailed, and she whispered in his ear that she would go Chapter 16 Part 2 The second half of the chapter concerns Father John's attempt to pin Thady down about what actually happened during his drunken conversation at the wedding, and to persuade him to separate himself from the local Ribbonmen. Thady is miserable and frightened by what he has done already, and though he has done little since but think about murdering Keegan that the others want him to murder Ussher has still not sunken in , he has taken no oathbesides evading Pat Brady's attempt to force him to the meeting where the oath-taking is to occur.

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