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Indeed, as September wore on, expectation quickened on both sides of the Channel. Nelly went in fear of she knew not what. The newspapers said little, but through Carton and the Farrells, she heard a great deal of military gossip. The shell supply was improving the new Ministry of Munitions beginning to tell a great blow was impending.
"Lachlin," said my brother, "he knows all about Vesey; just give an account of the attack." "The attack, sir! no, but the chivey we got over the mountains. Why, sir, we met in, an ould empty house, you see, that belonged to the Farrells of Ballyboulteen, that went over to America that spring.
A peculiar quality, a certain tensity, in Rutton's manner, forced itself upon Amber's attention. "Why?" he asked. "Do you know the Farrells? What's the matter?" Rutton's eyes met his stonily; out of the ashen mask of his face, that suddenly had whitened beneath the brown, they glared, afire but unseeing. His hands writhed, the fingers twisting together with cruel force, the knuckles grey.
Poverty, struggle, ill-health for Nelly poverty, and the starving of all natural desires and ambitions for herself that was all there was to look forward to, if the Farrells were alienated, and the marriage thwarted. A fierce revolt shook the woman by the window. She sat on there till the moon dropped into the sea, and everything was still in the little echoing hotel.
The letter was written on the business paper of the Farrell Cotton Mills, and asked if I were related to the Farrells of Duncannon, of the County Wexford, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1860. The writer added that he had a grandfather named Fletcher and suggested we might be related.
This ease and lavishness; the best of everything and no trouble to get it; the 'cottage' as perfect as the palace; it was so, she felt, that life should be lived, to be really worth living. She envied the Farrells with an intensity of envy. Why should some people have so much and others so little?
Her entrance and her manner had always a disintegrating effect upon other human beings; and Bridget had no sooner shaken hands with the Farrells than everybody save Nelly was upon their feet and ready to move.
She wanted to see the world, and not to be bothered by having to think of money. Contact with very rich people, like the Farrells, and the constant spectacle of what an added range and power is given to the human will by money, had turned the dull discontent of her youth into an active fever of desire. She had no illusions about herself at all. She was already a plain and unattractive old maid.
When he found I would not charter an auto-mobile and at once pursue the Farrells he changed his tactics. If I would not go to Cape May, then, he begged, I would go to Fairharbor. He asked that I would, at least, find out what I was refusing.
And the people who have money, like the Farrells, are spending it too. Wait till you see how they live! 'But there's the hospital! cried Nelly. Bridget shrugged her shoulders. 'That's because they can afford to give the hospital, and have the motor-cars too. If they had to choose between hospitals and motor-cars! 'Lots of people do!
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