midnight
Mr. Brosnan thought that for the present a tenant was , as a matter of course , entitled to abatement in his rent , as in a short time he must be entitled to his land without paying any . He considered not at all the circumstances , whether , as had been the case on certain properties in Mayo , all money expended had been so expended by the tenant , or by the landlord , as had been the case with Pat Carroll 's land . That was an injustice , according to Mr. Brosnan 's theory ; as is all property in accordance with the teaching of some political doctors who are not burdened with any . It would have been unfair to Mr. Brosnan to say that he sympathised with murderers , or that he agreed with those who considered that midnight outrages were fair atonements ; he demanded rights . He himself would have been hot with righteous indignation , had such a charge been made against him . But in the quarrel which was now beginning all his sympathies were with the Carrolls at large , and not with the Jones 's at large . At every victory won by the British Parliament his heart again boiled with indignation .