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Mary smuggled Derry out of sight when the Monday morning came, and Rachael and her oldest son went away with the Valentines in the car. It was a fresh, sweet morning in the early winter, and both women, furred to the eyes, enjoyed the trip.
It admitted, in fact, the contention that Ireland was not a nation but a geographical expression. As soon as the Bill went into Committee, the result was seen. The first serious amendment proposed to exclude the four counties, Antrim, Down, Armagh, and Derry, and it was moved from the Liberal benches.
Margaret sped down to meet them, leaving the story, reluctantly, in that moment of heart-breaking climax. When later Derry followed her, she had a chance to say, "I hope you gave it a happy ending." "Oh, did you hear? Yes. They found him in time to send him away to war. But Hans Andersen didn't end it that way. He knew life." She stared at him in amazement.
As the two came down from the high moors, tracking cautiously through the woods and stray belts of culture which hung about the thatched steadings and shy, deep-hidden farm-towns, a wildness awoke in Stair Garland. The little mare, Derry Down, responded to his mood. She held her head high, and capered like an unbitted yearling fresh off the first spring pastures.
After leaving Derry, the army returned to Dublin, where the parliament which James had summoned was then sitting. Most of the soldiers were quartered on the citizens; but, as the pressure was very great, Captain Davenant easily obtained leave for his troop to go out to Bray, where they were within a very short distance of his own house.
I want to talk to him." Teddy's grave eyes surveyed her. "You've been cryin'," he said, "I told Cousin Derry " "Yes. I have had bad news. But I am not going to cry any more. And you'll take care of sister?" "I tell you, old chap," said Derry resourcefully, "you and Margaret-Mary can open my parcel, and when I come back we'll all play together."
"I didn't want to worry you." "Didn't you know that I'd want to be worried with anything that pertained to you? What's a husband for, dearest, if you can't tell him your troubles?" "Yes, but a soldier-husband, Derry, is different. You've got to keep smiling " Her lips trembled and she clung to him. "It is so good to have you here, Derry."
In addition to this, there is a separate body of Dublin Metropolitan Police, and smaller bodies in Belfast and Derry are also maintained. The Dublin police force costs nearly six times as much per head of population as does that of London.
They talked of these things while they ate their lunch. The black waiter, who knew Derry, hovered about them. His freedom, too, had been the culmination of a dream. "Men laugh at the dreamers," Derry said, "then honor them after they are dead." "That's the cruelty, the sadness of it, isn't it?" "Not to the dreamer.
And it was Alma who had said at the Witherspoon dinner, "Everybody will forgive a man with money." And that was what Ralph had thought of her, that she was like Alma that money could buy her that she would sell the honor of her country for gold . But worse than any hurt of her own was the hurt of the thing for Derry.
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