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Con sat with his back turned to it until the dusk had muffled up everything in dimness, and then he stole an armful of turf-sods from the nearest stack, and groped his way in through the deserted door. The shadows within were folded so heavily that he could scarcely more than guess where the hearth had been. One of Con's peculiarities was a strange horror of a fireless hearth.
She had never seen him in this mood and, while he fascinated, he overawed her. "Why, girl, Con's father, my younger brother, was as talented as Con, but he was a scamp. He had money enough to pave the way to his own destruction. Until it was gone he spurned me spurned even his own genius. He married a woman as mad as himself and then without a qualm tossed her aside to die.
Betty was clinging to Lynda, crying as if all the agony were swept away forever. "Sometimes" Lynda pressed against Betty "sometimes, lately, in Con's eyes I have seen the look! It was as if he were asking me whether he had yet been punished enough! And I've been thinking of myself thinking what Con owed me; what I wanted; when I should have it!
"Your little baby, Betty!" "My baby!" The words came in a hard, gasping breath. "I held him when he died, Betty. I had never been close to a baby before never! A strange thing happened to me as I looked at him. It was like knowing what a flower would be while holding only the bud. The baby's eyes had the same expression I have seen in Con's eyes in Brace's; I know now it is the whole world's look.
Some brother of the official writer of the village, quarreled with the son of a poor woman when that woman's cow came too near his premises, and he made his son beat her off. My position in the matter is whatever the pro's and con's how dare anyone hurt a poor famished cow and I am settling it on that line."
'Talkin' of the keg, says Dick, 'for the matther o' that, says he, 'divil a much differ the hat will persave; for the one' meanin' ould Con's head, who was a hard dhrinker the one, says Con, 'is as much a keg as the other ha! ha! ha! Dick met Rousin' Redhead another day: 'Arrah, Con, says he, 'why do you get your hats made upon a pot, man alive?
She went on, but afther a time came back to Liverpool for me, an' took the typhus on her way home, but thank God, we were all in time to clear the innocent and punish the guilty; ay, an' reward the good, too, eh, Toddy?" "I'll give Mave away," replied Toddy, "if there wasn't another man in Europe; an' when I'm puttin' your hand into Con's, Mave, it won't be an empty one.
The pro's and the con's I'll tell thee: but being got too far from the track I set out in, I will close here. I may, however, write every day something, and send it as opportunity offers. Regardless, nevertheless, I shall be in all I write, of connection, accuracy, or of any thing but of my own imperial will and pleasure. I have your narrative, my dear.
Her Imperial Majesty carried along with her a vast treasure in money, plate, and jewels; so, in that respect, will much enfeeble this summer's preparation against Portugal: in another regard the despatch of that great affair out of the way, which hath wholly taken up these Councils in pro's and con's for many months past, hath left them at liberty to prosecute with the more vigour this war."
And this was good Cousin Con's elucidation of the riddle, which she narrated with many digressions, and with animated smiles, to conceal tears of sympathy.
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