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The Dorans and the Flanagans had got quite thick after drubbing one another Ned Doran began his courtship with Alley Flanagan on that day, and they were married soon after, so that the two factions joined, and never had another battle until the day of her berrial, when they were at it as fresh as ever.
I gave you strict instructions, didn't I? Do it standing, sir! I'll teach you to behave like a jinkleman! If I catch a trace on your swaddles. Aha! By the ass of the Dorans you'll find I'm a martinet. The sins of your past are rising against you. Many. Hundreds.
He married me for my looks, because I was strong and tall and fine, as a girl should be. He thought I could give him a splendid heir. You know how things are arranged in this family. The property goes from father to son, or a daughter, if there's no son. But they all pray for sons. The Dorans want to carry on the name they're so proud of just as you have been proud!
Reeves's opinion foolishly quixotic to rouse sleeping dogs, and ruin himself, to put money in the pockets of the Reynold Dorans, who had more than they wanted already. "You'll feel like getting leave to run over to France, I suppose," said the lawyer, "though of course the search might be made for you if you prefer." "I prefer to go myself," Max decided quietly. "Why not let me go with you?"
The powder train was unwittingly laid months before by Josephine Doran-Reeves, as she preferred to call herself after her marriage with the son of the Dorans' lawyer. Neither she nor Grant who had taken the name of Doran-Reeves also liked to think or talk of the man who had disappeared.
She may be dead. Then it needn't go against your conscience to let things stay as they are. The Reynold Dorans have heaps of money." "That isn't the question exactly," said Max. "Whatever happens, I haven't the right but never mind.... I don't want to trouble you, God knows. I can see partly how you must have felt about the baby, and about fath I mean, about the whole thing.
And she knew the Dorans. She knew Jack could never feel the same to me, as the mother of that impish girl. "The doctor knew about a young woman who had just had a child a boy. He'd helped bring it into the world a night or two before. She was the wife of a private soldier who'd been ordered off to Algeria somewhere. They'd been married secretly. If she had money she would have followed him.
"'Well, Billy, says Father Corrigan, 'you must get the bottle; and as for you Dorans and Flanagans, I'll make examples of you for this day's work that you may reckon on. You are a disgrace to the parish, and, what's more, a disgrace to your priest. How can luck or grace attind the marriage of any young couple that there's such work at?
I lived down the remorse. And it was fortunate for me I had a child; otherwise all but a little money would have gone to the Reynold Dorans. You've been good to me, Max, and I've liked you very well. I've tried not to think about the past. But when I did think, I said to myself that you had nothing to complain of. What a different life it would have been for you, with your own people.
"It was now that I began to notish a kind of coolness between my party and the bride's, and for some time I didn't know what to make of it I wasn't long so, however; for my uncle, who still had his eye about him, comes over to me, and says, 'Shane, I doubt there will be bad work amongst these people, particularly betwixt the Dorans and the Flannagans the truth is, that the old business of the law-shoot will break out, except they're kept from drink, take my word for it, there will be blood spilled.
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