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She dropped her voice to a toneless mutter about a "journey," and some papers that were to be signed, and a "false" dark woman who pretended to be Mrs. Byrne's friend, but would do her an injury. Mrs. Cregan sat as if she were waiting for her turn to enter a confessional, her hands folded, her head dropped. She heard Mrs. Byrne whispering hoarsely, but she did not listen.
Her mouth was tight in an expression of resentful determination. Only her little round chin trembled like a child's. And yet Mrs. Cregan was as nearly heart-broken as she had ever been in her life.
I shall then present you to her. She will commend your modesty and gentleness; we will send for your father, and then where is the tongue that shall venture to wag against the fame of Eily Cregan!" The young man left her, a little chagrined at her apparent slowness in appreciating his noble condescension.
"There is one way left for reparation," he said. "I will give myself up. There is peace and comfort in the thought." He was interrupted by the entrance of Anne. Mrs. Cregan accounted for her son's excitement by saying that he was ill. Later in the evening they heard that the coroner had not even found anyone to identify the body, and that the jury had returned a verdict of "Found Drowned."
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