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Quotation from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats (editor)
“She was the idol of the people and the providence of the indigent.”
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Devil, The Countess Kathleen O'Shea (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text))
The Countess is introduced just before she learns that demon merchants are buying the souls of the starving.
Citation: "She was the idol of the people and the providence of the indigent." — W. B. Yeats (editor), Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Devil, The Countess Kathleen O'Shea (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text)). (id fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry-q8)
Portrait: William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
