Hazel: I will not have blood put in my veins that never rose up in them by birth. You to have put a slur maybe on the whole of my posterity for ever. That now is a thing out of measure.
Mineog: It might be the Casserlys are as fair as the Hessians, and as well looking and as well reared.
Hazel: There's no one can know that. What place owns them? My tribe didn't come inside the province. Every generation was born and bred in this or in some neighbouring townland.
Mineog: Sure you will be but yourself whatever family may be laying claim to you.
Hazel: Any person of the Casserlys to have done a wrong deed at any time, the neighbours would be watching and probing my own brood till they would see might the track of it break out in any way. It ran through our race to be hard tempered, from the Kanes that are very hot.
Mineog: Why would the family of the Casserlys go doing wrong deeds more than another?
Hazel: I would never forgive it, if it was the highest man in Connacht said it.
Mineog: I tell you there to be any flaw in them, it would have worked itself out in yourself ere this.
Hazel: Putting on me the weight of a family I never knew or never heard the name of at all. It is that is killing me entirely.
Mineog: Neither did I ever hear their name or if they ever lived in the world, or did any deed good or bad in it at all.