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I was therefore quite hopeful that our performances in Ballygore would escape notice. They did not. Some miserably efficient and enterprising reporter strayed into the town on the very evening of Lalage's meeting and wrote an account of her torchlight procession. The whole thing appeared next morning in the paper which he represented.
Our proper headquarters were, of course, in Ballygore, the principal town in the East Connor division of Down. But a great deal of business had to be done in Dublin and we could hardly have got on without an office. I walked into this room a few minutes before eleven on the morning after I had entertained Titherington in my hotel. "The lady hasn't arrived yet," I said.
My mother can do anything she likes with the Archdeacon, just as she does with Lalage. He'll not enforce a single penalty." "She's wonderful," said Hilda. I quite agreed. She is. Even Miss Pettigrew could not do as much. It was more by good luck than anything else that she succeeded in luring Lalage away from Ballygore. I congratulated my mother that night on her success in dealing with Lalage.
It reminded me so unpleasantly of my time in Ballygore that I gave orders to have it set up with its face to the wall in a passage. There I used to trip over it nearly every day. Canon Beresford's position was worse than mine, for his house was smaller and Lalage's presents were both numerous and larger than those sent to me.
I don't think she mentioned the number of babies, but several would be required." My mother looked at me in much the same curious way that Miss Pettigrew did on the afternoon when she and Canon Beresford visited me in Ballygore. I felt the same unpleasant sense of embarrassment.
He said that I had originally brought her to Ballygore and he left it to be understood that I was an ardent member of the Association for the Suppression of Public Lying. Unfortunately nobody believed him. Lalage's crusade had produced an extraordinary effect. Nobody any longer believed anything, not even the advertisements.
"I'm often sorry he didn't. He wouldn't say things like that if he had a child of his own." There was a great deal of angry feeling in Ballygore and indeed all through the constituency when Lalage went home. It was generally believed that O'Donoghue, Vittie, and I had somehow driven her away, but this was quite unjust to us and we all three felt it.
In the hall Miss Battersby waylaid me again. "Is it all right?" she asked anxiously. "Not quite. My uncle is writing to Miss Pettigrew." "She won't come. I'm sure she won't. She told me herself when we were in Ballygore that for the future she intends to watch Lalage's performances from a distance." "She may make an exception in this case," I said.
I am glad, very, that it is you who have to face them, not I. I do not know anything in the world that I should dislike more." Titherington took rooms for me in the better of the two hotels in Ballygore and I went down there on the day on which he told me I ought to go. I had as travelling companion a very pleasant man, the only other occupant of the compartment in which I was.
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