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Carriswood noticed was Tommy's mouth, a flexible and delicately cut mouth, of which the lips moved lightly in speaking and seldom were quite in repose. "The genuine Irish orator's mouth," thought Mrs. Carriswood. Tommy, however, was not a finished orator, and Mrs.
Carriswood, he admitted ingenuously that it was Tommy's idea. "Tommy thought they would make more show that way," says Harry, "and they are all on the middle aisle, so his father and mother can see them; Tim O'Halloran has got one for him, too, and Mrs. Macillarney, and she's got some splendid pinies. Picked every last one. They'll make a show!"
Carriswood to herself; yet she smiled. Going home, she found a word for Tommy's ear. The old Virginian dinner had been most successful. Patrick Fitzmaurice, brogue and all, was an Irish gentleman without a flaw.
They make a monstrous racket in the newspapers, but when election comes on they can't touch side, edge, or bottom!" Discoursing in this fashion, with digressions to Harry in regard to the machines, the furniture, and the sales, that showed Mrs. Carriswood that he meant to keep an eye on his twenty odd thousand dollars, he strolled at her side. To Miss Van Harlem he scarcely said three words.
Carriswood hesitated a second and then added Derry's information at the bottom of the page. "I suppose the lordly ancestor was one of King James's creation see Macaulay, somewhere in the second volume. I dare say there is a drop or two of good blood in the boy. He has the manners of a gentleman but I don't know that I ever saw an Irishman, no matter how low in the social scale, who hadn't."
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