human
You're welcome to every dollar, father, only it doesn't seem to make you happy.
gpt
I should be happy to starve for the country, if starving would do anything.
human
I don't see that one ever does any good by starving as long as there is bread to eat. This isn't a romantic sort of thing, this payment of rents; but we ought to try and find out what a man really owes.
gpt
No man owes a cent to any landlord on behalf of rent.
human
But how is a man to get the land? she said.
gpt
Over in our country a rough pioneering fellow goes and buys it, and then he sells it, and of course the man who buys it hasn't to pay rent. But I cannot see how any fellow here can have a right to the land for nothing.
human
What a fool is that Mr. O'Mahony!