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He was going out of the door then, but they all told him it was best for him to stop the night, and to get strength for the journey; and indeed he wanted that, for he was very weak, and when they gave him food he eat it like a man that had never seen food before, and one of them said, 'He is eating as if he had trodden on the hungry grass. It was in the white light of the morning he set out, and the time seemed long to him till he could get to Mary Lavelle's house.
Achill people said she belonged to the sea, and the sea had claimed her. They remembered Patrick Lavelle's silence as to where he had found her. They remembered a thousand unearthly ways in her; and which of them had ever seen her pray? They pray well in Achill, having a sure hold on that heavenly country which is to atone for the cruelty and sorrow of this.
In process of time they will come to think of her as a mermaid, poor little Moya. She had loved her husband at least with a warm human love. But his open grave was filled after they had given up hoping that the sea would again give her up, and the place by Patrick Lavelle's side remains for ever empty. The little house where Katie lived was over the fields.
"Do you, then, understand this woman, boy?" "Why, yes! Didn't you? She's lost her way, and " But the woman had hurried forward and was pouring her story into David's ears. At its conclusion David turned to find the look of stupefaction still on the others' faces. "Well, what does she want?" asked Simeon Holly crisply. "She wants to find the way to Francois Lavelle's house.
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