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...install public rest rooms for women. The book's narrator-a boy named Finnbar- and his older brother Manus come to live with the old man as orphans aged five and ten. In nightly colloquy at Collopy's, the boys listen as a forbearing Jesuit priest, Father Fahrt, is plied with Kilbeggan whisky and tried by his host's assaults on the Society of Jesus. "The Order," grunts Collopy, "was some class of an East India company. Heavenly imperialism but with plenty of money in the bank . . . Give me your damned glass...
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