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She was compelled to admit, however outraged her feelings may have been the previous night, that should Peg carry out her intention to desert them, the family would be in a parlous condition. The income from Mr. Kingsnorth's will was indeed the one note of relief to the distressed household.
Kingsnorth's dictation," replied Jerry. "Was that why ye wanted me to be engaged to ye until I was twenty-one?" she asked the unhappy lawyer. Hawkes tried to laugh it off. "Come, come, Miss O'Connell," he said, "what nonsense!" "Did YOU propose to Miss Margaret?" queried Jerry. "Well " hesitated the embarrassed lawyer "in a measure yes." "That's what it was," cried Peg, with a laugh.
"No," replied the lawyer. "In obedience to his written wishes he was cremated and no one was present except the chief executor and myself. If I may use Mr. Kingsnorth's words without giving pain, he said he so little regretted not having seen any of his relations for the last twenty years of his life-time he was sure THEY would regret equally little his death.
Kingsnorth's last wishes by making known the conditions of his bequest to Miss O'Connell and then let her decide whether she wishes to abide by them or not." "As the late Mr. Kingsnorth's legal adviser, I must strongly object to such a course," protested the indignant lawyer. "All the same, Mr. Hawkes, I feel compelled to take it, and I must ask you to act under my instructions."
"You know what I mean," and Kingsnorth's voice rose angrily. "I think I do," answered Burke quietly. "I want an agent who is devoted to my interests and to whom the people are secondary." "Then ye'd betther send to England for one, sir. The men devoted to landlords and against the people are precious few in this part of Ireland, sir." "Do you intend that I should act on that?" "If ye wish.
As Peg turned away from him, she came face to face with Jerry or as she kept calling him in her brain by his new name to her Sir Gerald Adair. She dropped her eyes and timidly held out her hand: "Good-bye!" was all she said. "You're not going, Peg," said Jerry, quietly and positively. "Who's goin' to stop me?" "The Chief Executor of the late Mr. Kingsnorth's will." "An' who is THAT?" "'Mr.
It appears that one particularly hard winter, when, for some unnecessary and wholly unwarrantable reason, the potato crop had failed, and the little Irish village was in a condition of desperate distress, it was found impossible to collect more than a tithe of Mr. Kingsnorth's just dues. No persuasion could make the obstinate tenants pay their rents.
Alaric burst out with: "I don't see how that clause interests us in the least, Mr. Hawkes." The lawyer removed his pince-nez and looking steadily at Mrs. Chichester said: "Now, my dear Mrs. Chichester, it was Mr. Kingsnorth's wish that the first lady to be approached on the matter of undertaking the training of the young lady should be YOU!" Mrs. Chichester rose in astonishment: "I?"
"Always your affectionate cousin," "Mary Caroline Wrexford." Kingsnorth's head sank on to his breast. Every bit of life left him. Everything about his feet. Ashes. The laughing-stock of his friends. Were Angela there at that moment he could have killed her. The humiliation of it! The degradation of it! Married to that lawless Irish agitator. The man now a member of his family!
"She had disgraced the family. He was justified," broke in Mrs. Chichester. "With death approaching," resumed Hawkes, "Mr. Kingsnorth's conscience began to trouble him and the remembrance of his treatment of his unfortunate sister distressed him. If the child were alive he wanted to see her.
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