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There was no lonesomeness that night coming home, Gogarty, though a curlew might have felt a bit. 'A curlew! 'Well, there were curlews and plovers about, and a starving ass picking grass between the road and the bog-hole. That night will be ever in my mind. Where would I be now if it hadn't been that you kept on with me and brought me back, cured?
From Miss Nora Glynn to Father Oliver Gogarty. 'September 3, 19 . 'You are a very human person after all, and it was very kind of you to think about my baby and kind of you to write to me about her. My baby is a little girl, and she has reddish hair like mine, and if ever you see her I think you will see me in her. The address of the woman who is looking after her is Mrs.
It wouldn't be a cassock that would be on my back, but some old rag of a coat. There's nothing in this world, Gogarty, more unlucky than a suspended priest. I think I can see myself in the streets, hanging about some public-house, holding horses attached to a cab-rank. 'Lord of Heaven, Moran! what are you coming here to talk to me in this way for?
The priests walked on again, and Father Oliver fell to thinking now what might be the end of this adventure. He could see there was no hope of persuading Father Moran from the bottle of whisky. 'What time do you be making it, Gogarty? 'It isn't ten o'clock yet. 'Then I'll walk up and down till the stroke of twelve ... I'll keep my promise to you. 'But they'll all be in bed by twelve.
'If I could only make known my suffering, she would take pity on me; but no one knows another's suffering. He walked from his window sighing, and a moment after stopped in front of his writing-table. Perhaps it was the writing-table that put the thought into his mind that she might like to read a description of an Irish autumn. From Father Oliver Gogarty to Miss Nora Glynn. 'September.
I do not ask you to read it now, but promise me that you will keep it. It will be a great consolation to me to know that it is by you. 'Very sincerely yours, From Father Oliver Gogarty to Miss Nora Glynn. 'November 3, 19 . 'I sent you I think it must be a fortnight ago a copy of "The Imitation of Christ."
It would seem that he had, for when she came to visit him again from her kitchen she spoke of something quite different, which surprised him, for she was a very observant woman of inexhaustible curiosity. But this time, however, he had managed to keep his secret from her, and, dismissing her, he thought of Nora's letter. From Miss Nora Glynn to Father Oliver Gogarty. 'December 12, 19 .
But if you get the parish when I'm gone, I'm sure you'll grow some beauties, and you'll put a bunch on my grave sometimes, Gogarty. The very ring of the dead man's voice seemed to sound through the lonely room, and, sitting in Father Peter's chair, with the light of Father Peter's lamp shining on his face and hand, Father Oliver's thoughts flowed on.
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