The Landleaguers

"We are just boycotted," said Ada; "that's all."

Boycott named as plot condition of the house — Land League coercion becomes narrative motor — so plot scores 85.

In the year 1850 the two estates of Ballintubber and Morony were sold to Mr. Philip Jones, under the Estates Court, which had then been established.

Cast hinged on purchaser-landlord before children named — estate person as political cast — so cast scores 84.

Thus they lived through the months of January and February, 1881, at Morony Castle, and Florian had not as yet told his secret. As a boy his nature had seemed to be entirely altered during the last six months.

Dated months and withheld secret — serial political calendar as pace — so pace scores 83.

At the time when the purchase was made there was no quieter spot in all Ireland, or one in which the lawful requirements of a landlord were more readily performed by a poor and obedient tenantry.

Quiet-spot irony foreshadows League upheaval — reportorial cadence — so prose scores 86.

They were in the County Galway, and lay to the right and left of the road which runs down from the little town of Headford to Lough Corrib.

Exact road geography grounds the political novel — Ireland as mapped estates — so world scores 88.

Not only have they in part repudiated the power of the priest as to their souls, but, in compliance with teaching which has come to them from America, they claim to be masters also of their bodies.

Historical change thesis before any murder — hooks as Ireland-transformed problem — so hook scores 87.

This novel was to have contained sixty chapters. My father had written as much as is now published before his last illness. It will be seen that he had not finished the forty-ninth chapter; and the fragmentary portion of that chapter stands now just as he left it.

Published unfinished with son's note — last Irish political novel as form of interrupted contemporary history — so innov scores 90.

He had intended that Yorke Clayton should marry Edith Jones, that Frank Jones should marry Rachel O'Mahony, and that Lax should be hanged for the murder of Florian Jones; but no other coming incident, or further unravelling of the story, is known.

Ending is intended-plot list, not dramatized close — documentary close lowers ending to 78 while preserving frankness.