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Probably for the same reason that he clung to her, watched for her and feared, with sickening fear, that she might never come again! "I suppose, since Con's death isn't on my head, you felt that you could forgive me, eh?" "Well, something like that, Uncle William." "What business is it of yours what I do with my money or my nephew?" These two never approached each other by conventional lines.
Soon after Cousin Con's marriage, we were invited to stay for a few weeks with the newly-married couple, during the festive winter season; so away we went with merry hearts, the clear frosty air and pleasant prospect before us invigorating our spirits, as we took our places inside the good old mail-coach, which passed through the town of P , where Cousin Con resided, for there were no railways then.
Con's mind was shut fast into the dreadful moment when he had pulled her shawl and she had fallen down, and therein it abode, sorely afflicted, until a spell of brain fever intervening let it loose into a region of vaguer and more varied dreams. And when he had struggled through this illness, nobody well knew how or why, he woke up to find his world swept very bare.
I'll I'll not lave them I'll nurse them I'll take care of them I'll beg for them oh, what would I not do for them?" and while speaking she bent over young Con's bed, and clasping her hands, and wringing them several times, she repeated "oh what wouldn't I do for you!" "May God bless you, best of girls, whoever you are! Come, now, I'm ready."
She called him 'dear old fellow, and questioned him of his fondness for her, warning him not to be faithless ever to the mistress who loved him. Was not her old Wayland as good a protector as the footman Mrs. Adister pressed her to have at her heels? That he was! Captain Con's behaviour grieved her. And it certainly revived an ancient accusation against his countrymen.
I hoped you'd keep her for a few days." "Of course I will, Lyn. I'm ready but Lyn, tell me!" "Betty, look at her! She has come out of of Con's past. He doesn't know, he mustn't know not now! She belongs to to the future. Can you can you understand? I never suspected until to-day. I've got to get used to it!" Then, fiercely: "But I'm going to do it, Betty!
A sudden resolve had been taken. She was going to comfort him as she never had before, going to recompense him for the weeks just past when she had failed him while espousing Con's cause. She was going to share her secret with him! "Just before mother went, Uncle William, she told me " The hand holding the cigar swayed it was a very frail, thin hand. "Told you what?" "That you once loved her."
His transparency was of a totally different order from Captain Con's, which proclaimed itself genuine by the inability to conceal a shoal of subterfuges. The younger cousin's features carried a something invisible behind them, and she was just perceptive enough to spy it, and it excited her suspicions.
"Listen, Mother; I'm going over to Con's. She's got that new serve down to a fine point! And I've done the boys' room and the guest room; it's all ready for the Cutters. And I put towels and soap in the bathroom, only you'll have to have Marthe wipe up the floor and the tub." "You're a darling child," the mother would say gratefully. "Darling nothing!"
This was Con's first bit of philosophising at Lisconnel, and it was not his last by many, as the place became one of his favourite resorts. His liking for it was perhaps partly due to the fact that its inhabitants received him on more equal terms than were generally accorded to him elsewhere; and this again may be largely attributed to the influence of Mrs. O'Driscoll.
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