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She had no smile to give, and a shrug half tossed his shoulders. "Are you comfortable here?" he asked, as she poured out the boiling water. "Oh yes. Very." "God!" he said casually within himself, feeling the weight of the strain. Then he struggled for it once more. "I'm dining with Devenish this evening," he said lightly. "You remember Devenish, don't you?" "Oh yes I remember him.
The puma had suddenly struck real mid-season form. It clawed the elevator-boy, bit a postman, held up the traffic for miles, and was finally shot by a policeman. Why, for the next few days there was nothing in the papers at all but Miss Devenish and her puma.
"I can't come to the music hall with you," she said suddenly. He looked at her suspiciously. "Why not?" he asked. "I couldn't I couldn't sit there I " It was impossible not to feel sympathy for her. The hardest nature in the world must yield its pity when the scourge of circumstance falls upon the weak. Devenish only knew in part what she was suffering.
It was Farmer Devenish who spoke these words to his wife, half an hour after the rest of the household had retired to rest, and he found her still sitting beside the fire, which she had piled up high on the hearth, as if she meant to remain downstairs for some time; which indeed she distinctly told him was her intention, as she did not wish to go to bed until Jack had come in.
At school, Devenish had been an athlete, superior to Traill in every sport that he took up. You have there the ground for approval and a certain strain of sympathy between the two men.
I have told you, haven't I, that I don't get on very well with my people." "Of course; yes. Isn't that rather a pity?" Possibly conscience was plying its spurs. There was some suggestion underlying the quietness of her manner which he found to bring a sense of uneasiness. He would have preferred that she had got on well at Cailsham. He would rather that she had taken a fancy to Devenish.
I've spent more than one night amongst them, and never a bit the worse. Men must live; and if the folks in authority will outlaw them, why, they must jog along then as best they may. I don't think they do more harm than they can well help." Mistress Devenish shook her head in silence over the rather wild talk of her son, but she said nothing.
But from the other lighter palfrey there leaped down a small and graceful creature of fairy-like proportions, and Mistress Devenish found herself suddenly confronted by the sweetest, fairest face she had ever seen in her life, whilst a pair of soft arms stole caressingly about her neck.
But you know as well as I do that he hates that set in society, would never have gone near the house in Sloane Street if it had not been for his sister's unhappiness about her husband!" Devenish looked up at her quickly with a swift change of expression. "What unhappiness?" he asked. "Why, that they're not getting on together."
There are many other examples, some of a later date, such as Temple Cronan and Maghera and Banagher in Derry, St. Finan's oratory in county Cork, St. Fechin's at Fore, and St. Molaise's at Devenish.
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