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Wish the lady good-night, Nan, you slut an the same from myself, Ma'am. And, with another courtesy, the Glynns of Palmerstown withdrew. Mervyn was just about this time walking up the steep Ballyfermot Road. It was then a lonely track, with great bushes and hedgerows overhanging it; and as other emotions subsided, something of the chill and excitement of solitude stole over him.
I suppose one would call Hetty a grand-niece." "Mother wasn't quite certain whether you said niece or grand-daughter," explained Leslie. "Her mother's dead, I take it. Who was she?" "Why are you so curious?" "Isn't it quite natural?" "Her mother was a Glynn. You have heard of the Glynns, of course?" She trusted to his vanity and was rewarded. The question was a sort of reproach.
He gave me a highly commendable account of myself, of you, of the fine old family of Glynns and God knows what all. He restored my pride, 'pon my soul he did." The Colonel laughed as he twisted his moustache with ironic fondness. She was quite still for a minute or two. "I heard you were in England," she said, changing the subject.
As the grounds of Hawarden show the remarkable cultivation produced by long periods of peaceful toil, so the ancient castle has given way for the modern dwelling, a peaceful abode whose only protecting wall is that with which the law surrounds it. Modern Hawarden Castle is a castle only in name. The new "Castle" has been the home of the Glynns' for generations, and ever since the marriage of Mr.
Ailie gazed in dreamy delight until she suddenly and unaccountably saw at least six fires, and fully half-a-dozen Bumbles, and eight or nine Glynns, and no end of fathers, and thousands of trees, and millions of sparks, all jumbled together in one vast complicated and magnificent pyrotechnic display; and then she fell asleep.
Adelle, overhearing this, felt an almost vivid sense of pride. But as yet hers was only a very little air, which was quickly wilted by the oppressive luxury of the Glynns' country-place one of those large, ostentatious establishments that Americans are wont to start before they know how, and where consequently the elaborate domestic machinery creaks.
Her soul was the soul of the Clarks, tricked out with good clothes and the manners and habits of the rich. Addie, it seemed, had at last arrived at her paradise in the person of her daughter, but it was a pale and inexpressive Addie, who made no large drafts upon paradise. Adelle departed in the Glynn motor for the Glynn country-place, where she was to stay until the Glynns sailed for Europe.
Tudor were dining at the Glynns' to-night. 'Lawrence has gone without me, he replied. 'I had a headache, and so I sent an excuse; but, as it got better, I thought I would come up and see how you were getting on. 'A headache, Uncle Max! looking at him rather anxiously, for I had never heard him complain of any ailment before.
"Certainly," he replied, without hesitation. It was proof enough that they were people one ought to know, by name at least, if one were to profess intelligence regarding the British aristocracy. As a matter of fact, he had not heard of the Glynns, but that didn't matter. "The Irish Glynns, you mean?" he ventured, taking a chance at hitting the mark.
"Indeed I do," said she with conviction. He laughed without restraint. "Mother can rattle off the best families in the Bible without missing a name, beginning with the Honourable Adam. Of course, she knows the Glynns and the Castletons and the Murgatroyds, although I dare say they haven't had much to do with the Bible.
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