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Richard Delany was not far wrong in his conjecture concerning the young usher, who was no other than our old friend William Dulan, little Willie, who had now grown to man's estate, the circumstances of whose introduction to the Delany family I must now proceed to explain. To pass briefly over the events of William Dulan's childhood and youth.
"I was about to leave this neighborhood for a short time; but could not do so without calling to bid you farewell, fearing you might be gone to England before I return." William Dulan's voice was beginning to quiver. "I have no present intention of going to England." "No? Such a report is rife in the neighborhood." "One is not chargeable with the reports of the neighborhood."
The first blessed tears that had relieved the burdened heart of either were shed together. Alice never left her. When the widow was sufficiently recovered, they went to England. The best years of the life of Alice were spent in soothing the declining days of William Dulan's mother. The face of Alice was the last object her eyes rested on in life; and the hands of Alice closed them in death.
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