That might be a loss, though I don't know
that it would."
"We think it's best that we should go, Your Majesty," the King of the
rath answered, meekly, "if you see no reason why not."
"I see reasons enough why not," said the King of All Ireland. "You
don't know where you are going, nor what you'll find there. You don't
know how you're to live, nor whether it'll be any fit place to live.
You don't know whether the people there will help you or hinder you."
"Wherever the O'Briens go, they'll help us," the King of the rath
answered. "We don't like to have them leave us here."
"You've gone contrary to the law enough already," said the King of All
Ireland, "in taking in this fellow with the red coat. Now you may take
all the consequences of it and go where you like. I don't care where
you go and I think nobody cares, only I think it may be best for all
the Good People in Ireland to have you out of it. Mount your horses,"
he shouted to his men, "and we'll be off out of this!"
He took one of the little green rushes from the floor and sat astride
it, as a little boy rides on his father's cane.
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