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@@@@@They have killed our omen and children as well as our menWe will kill soldiersA oldier is paid to die "But you're a priest," she said, "you can't kill Colum was still for several minutesDust motes turned lazily in he stripes of light from the window to his bowed headWhen he ifted it, Scarlett saw that his eyes were dark with sorrow"When I was a boy of eight," he said, "I watched the wagons f wheat and the droves of cattle on the road from Adamstown toard Dublin and the English banquet tables thereI also watched y sister die of hunger because she was but two years old and had o strength to carry her without foodThree, my brother was, and e, too, had too little strengthThe smallest always were the first to dieThey cried because they were hungry and were too young to nderstand when they were told there was no foodI understood, or I was eight and wiserAnd I did not cry because I knew that crying uses strength needed to survive without foodAnother brother died, he was seven, and then the six-year-old and the one who was ve, and to my eternal shame I have forgot which was the girl and which the boyMy mother went then, but I have always thought she died more from the pain of her broken heart than from the pain of her empty belly"It takes many months to starve to death, ScarlettIt is not a merciful deathFor all those months the wagons of food rolled past us Colum's voice sounded lifeless Once ten, and the Famine years past and with food to fill me, I was quick at my studies, good at my booksOur priest thought me full of promise and he told my father that perhaps, with diligence, I might in time be accepted in the seminaryMy father gave me everything he could giveMy older brothers did more than their share of work on the farm so that I need do none and could be diligent at my booksNo one grudged me for 'tis a great honor to a family to have a son who is a pri