Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 450
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Uncle John Mullins wanted to marry my sister, I used to get no end of a good time, & used to be driven round the place in a smart dogcart of his, & carefully delivered at Kincoppal afterwards, & what was there to wonder at if your Auntie Jeannie was generally at home when we returned from our drive?
Talking of marriage, Ken Austin married Arthur Allen's daughter, Joyce Allen, yesterday in the Protestant church. Her portrait is in today's papers, with full accounts of the ceremony, though I am bound to say that the name of none of the Austins, Laidley Morts, or Willie Streets, have been published in the list of guests. Poor old Henry Austin, his father, is now over eighty & in failing health with little memory left, but he was always a staunch Catholic, & it is a pity to see one of his sons a renegade. I have no time for renegades. Many men whom I like are Protestants of every variety, & I value their friendship, but the blighters who throw up their beliefs for some rotten supposed social advancement are to me deserving of nothing but contempt, & I neither value nor want their acquaintance.
All this sort of thing comes as an amusing discourse from one who, I fear (?), is looked upon by many of his own crowd as the worst renegade of them all! When pastorals of Home Rule are read in churches, & Sinn Fein is only kept in subjection by