"Like all the Irish," he said, amused, "you talk easily, and always with the right words." He scowled. "Chantry, I know not the name. Should there not be a Mac or an O before it?"
"I had another name once," I said, "but put it aside long since I discovered," I spoke wryly, "that those of my name did not live long. When a land is taken and the people remain unconquered it is considered wise to eliminate all those about who an uprising might gather."
(from Fair Blows the Wind, by Louis L'Amour)
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