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Kilroy of Ilverthorpe he wished; he could forget; but he would provide against the danger of repeating them aloud. He would telegraph to his own man the fellow had written to him the other day, being in want of a place: a capital servant and discreet glad he had thought of him.
Kilroy had come in while they were talking, and sat listening to the last part of the conversation. "I have just the sort of 'neat little cot in a quiet spot, with a distant view of the rolling sea' that you yearn for, Beth," he said, smiling, when she paused, "and I have come to ask you and Angelica to drive over with me to see it." "You mean Ilverthorpe Cottage," said Angelica, jumping up.
He was cut off from her himself, and could expect no help from his wife, whose nervous system had suffered so much from the shock of unhappy circumstances in her youth that she could not now bear even to hear of, let alone to be brought in contact with, any form of sorrow or suffering; but there were other ladies Mrs. Kilroy of Ilverthorpe, for instance.
The entrance to Ilverthorpe was only a few hundred yards from where they had met, and they had now reached a postern which led into the grounds. Angelica opened it with a latchkey and then stood to let her aunt pass through before her. "I suppose you will come in," she said ungraciously.
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