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I replied, expressing sincere admiration of Mr. Dunboyne's motives, and merely informing him that the child was already provided for. After that, I heard no more of the Irish gentleman. It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that I kept the Minister in ignorance of my correspondence with Mr. Dunboyne.
"No." This second reply in the negative irritated her. "At any rate," she said, sharply, "you appeared to know Mr. Dunboyne's name, just now." "Certainly!" "And yet," she persisted, "the name seemed to come upon you as a surprise. I don't understand it. If I have mentioned Philip's name once, I have mentioned it a dozen times." We were completely at cross-purposes.
Having gone through the whole collection of young Dunboyne's letters, I set myself to review the differing conclusions which the correspondence had produced on my mind. I call the papers submitted to me a correspondence, because the greater part of Philip's letters exhibit notes in pencil, evidently added by Helena.
"Let me see him," I suggested; "I can easily say you are engaged." Very unwillingly, as it was easy to see, my father declined to allow this. "Mr. Dunboyne's visit pays me a compliment," he said; "and I must receive him." I made a show of leaving the room, and was called back to my chair. "This is not a private interview, Helena; stay where you are."
James Butler, Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, who deserted his faith and order on becoming unexpectedly heir to an earldom, the Irish prelates of the reign of George III. were a most zealous and devoted body. Lord Dunboyne's fall was the only cause of a reproach within their own ranks.
But I was ignorant of this: and the disclosure by which I found myself suddenly confronted was more than I could support. For the moment, speech was beyond me. His son! Dunboyne's son!
She provokingly stopped there. I entreated her to go on. She invited me to sit on her knee. "I want to whisper," she said. It was too ridiculous but I did it. Miss Jillgall's whisper told me serious news. "The minister has some reason, Euneece, for disapproving of Mr. Dunboyne; but, mind this, I don't think he has a bad opinion of the young man himself. He is going to return Mr. Dunboyne's call.
Philip Dunboyne's letters; and Miss Helena was to say nothing of that unlucky slip of the tongue, relating to her mother, which she had discovered to be a serious act of self-betrayal thanks to my confusion at the time.
Even if events so ordered it that the marriage of Eunice might yet take place without any interference exerted to produce that result, one way or the other, on my part it would be just as impossible for me to speak out now, as it had been in the long-past years when I had so cautiously answered Mr. Dunboyne's letter.
I can repeat Philip's questions and the Governor's answers after putting the young man through a stiff examination just as they passed: 'May I inquire, sir, if she has spoken to you about me? 'She has often spoken about you. 'Did she seem to be angry with me? 'She is too good and too sweet to be angry with you. 'Do you think she will forgive me? 'She has forgiven you. 'Did she say so herself? 'Yes, of her own free will. 'Why did she refuse to see me when I called at the farm? 'She had her own reasons good reasons. 'Has she regretted it since? 'Certainly not. 'Is it likely that she would consent, if I proposed a reconciliation? 'I put that question to her myself. 'How did she take it, sir? 'She declined to take it. 'You mean that she declined a reconciliation? 'Yes. 'Are you sure she was in earnest? 'I am positively sure. That last answer seems, by young Dunboyne's own confession, to have been enough, and more than enough for him.
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