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Eily took up the little tin box that held all her worldly possessions, and followed her aunt to the cab like one in some horrible dream. The fog, the crowds, the noises, the strangeness of everything! With a chill at her warm young heart she took her seat in the cab, and was driven swiftly through the streets.
But I seemed to have wandered into an empty place to-day. By Jove, Eily, I thought I'd made up my mind. I'm fond of the old place at home, and I'd like, to see it done up properly. It isn't as if I'd ever care tuppence again about any girl on earth after Kathleen. So what does anything of that sort matter? At least that's what I've been asking myself."
"You have guessed it," he said huskily. "My name does not matter. I am a McKim. She was my mother Eily McKim and she used to tell me of my uncle and of you." "Did she, now? Did she remember me?" he exclaimed. "God bless th' little gur-rl. An' she is dead?" Bill nodded, and Daddy Dunnigan drew a coarse sleeve across his eyes and puffed hard at his short pipe.
Since then he's been much nicer, though, perhaps still a little absent-minded, which may come from being "blue." I should like to know what Ena said to him! But I suppose it's all right! Your chum and cousin, EILY. P.S. They've got a shop in New York. I forgot to tell you that a huge shop. It's never mentioned here, but Petro told me. He's not ashamed, but rather proud of the way the money came.
Then he caught him by the throat, and shook him with appalling violence. "If you ever dare again to utter a word or meditate a thought of evil against that unhappy creature," he cried, "I will tear you limb from limb between my hands!" III. "Found Drowned" Hardress had left Eily almost unprovided with funds. After a few weeks she was obliged to write for pecuniary assistance.
How grandly they were all dressed! not one with a red petticoat like the new one she had been so proud of only yesterday morning; she glanced at it now with contempt, deciding to discard it before she had been another day in London. There was a girl sitting on her box not far from Eily; she was evidently waiting for some one to fetch her.
The marriage has been kept secret, and Hardress, finding that an opportunity has arisen of repairing the fallen fortunes of his house by a rich marriage, contemplates repudiating Eily. Eily refuses to part with her 'marriage lines, whereupon Danny Mann, Hardress's faithful henchman, attempts to drown her in the lake.
But when she told him that the loneliness was troubling her, he accused her of jealousy. "If I was jealous, and with reason," said Eily. smiling seriously, "nobody would ever know it; for I wouldn't say a word, only stretch upon my bed and die. I wouldn't be long in his way, I'll engage." Hardress warned her never to inquire into his secrets, nor to effect an influence which he would not admit.
His earlier works, 'The Gipsy's Warning' and 'The Brides of Venice, are now forgotten, but 'The Lily of Killarney, which was produced in 1862, is still deservedly popular. It is founded upon Boucicault's famous drama, 'The Colleen Bawn. Hardress Cregan, a young Irish landowner, has married Eily O'Connor, a beautiful peasant girl of Killarney.
What Miss Rolls did was very simple, if you had the clue. But the clue was what Win lacked. "I thought we were due to meet Eily and Rolls about this time, and look at those wonderful pearls your father says he gets straight from the fisheries," Rags reminded Ena when the elevator dropped to the basement and began to bound up again.
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