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Updated: June 16, 2025
It was not so much because she had heard he was in love, that she realized it; that even then her faith, in its ashes, repudiated. But when Devenish had said alluding to the faintest chance of his return "I shouldn't be here, I assure you, if there were," she had been made conscious of Traill's tacit permission unspoken no doubt to Devenish which had prompted his visit to her rooms.
A hundred steps lead to the top, and the ascent repays the climb. The Cuilgach range, source of the Shannon, the Blue Stack mountains of Donegal, the ancient church and round tower of Devenish, an island in the Great Lough Erne, and due west the Benbulben hills, are easily visible. Devenish island is about two miles away, and, although without a tree, is very interesting.
And this is the type of man, such as Devenish, most dangerous to society. If the threadbare hypocrisy of this country of England could but bring itself to don the acknowledgment that the hired woman has her place in the scheme of things, such men as Devenish would find the virtuous woman more closely guarded from their strategies than she is.
You thought I was mean, didn't you, Janet?" Janet looked up at the ceiling, then impulsively held out her hand. "God help me!" she exclaimed, "if I find my own sex an enigma; but what on earth made you decide?" "Mr. Devenish." "Who?" "Mr. Devenish, the man I told you I was dining with that night, six weeks ago." "Why him, in the name of Heaven?" "He came to see me last night." "Well?"
The chapel connected with the charity dates from the time of the third Henry, and contains a piece of fourteenth-century carving depicting the nimbed head of the Saviour, which is now built into a wall. Considerable doubt exists as to the original founder and early re-founders of this hospital, and little is known concerning it until the time of Edward II, when John Devenish re-founded it.
Why, you'd brand yourself to the whole world. It'd be a mill stone round your neck, not a child." "Don't you think I'm branded plainly enough already? What do you think a man like Devenish thinks of me?" "Oh, Devenish be damned! There are other men than Devenish in the world. Men who know nothing; men who'd be ready to marry you."
He heard many things in the silence that followed. "Had I better go and dress?" she asked, after the moment's pause. "Oh no, he's not changed. He's in here; come along." Sally entered and Devenish moved forward to shake hands. "Good evening, Miss Bishop; don't you hesitate to say if you'd thought of doing anything else.
They have taken the gifts that Nature has offered and, with the subtle cunning of their minds, have torn the inviolable parchment of her laws to shreds before her face. With no inheritance of the intellect, Devenish possessed all the other qualities. Sensualist as he was, with that strain of refinement induced by the easy circumstances of life, the paid women disgusted him.
"Not a bit." She turned to Traill. "Shall I go up and put on my hat, Jack?" There was no interest in her voice, no enthusiasm. This was a child doing the bidding of his master. Devenish saw through every note of it.
It may be concluded, then, from these apparently needless digressions that Devenish was good company. He did his best to amuse Sally he succeeded. When they were halfway through the dinner and he had casually refilled her glass with champagne, she was prepared to see humour in everything he said.
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