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Updated: September 4, 2025
No one will set her house on fire on account of my jewels a few glass beads and a gold safety-pin, all told! You see them before you now!" Darsie tossed her head and pointed towards her treasures with an air of such radiant satisfaction that Noreen and Ida dropped the effort to be polite, and pealed with delighted laughter. "You are a funny girl! You do amuse us. It's so nice to have a new friend.
Noreen knew nothing of this side of her friend, for she had not seen her since her marriage, and honestly thought her beautiful and fascinating. Ida picked up her hat and parasol and said: "Now I'll leave you to get straight, darling child, and come back to you later on." She looked into the glass again and went on: "It's so nice to have you here.
Beside Noreen sat the man she liked best in the little colony, a grey-haired planter named Payne. Many of the younger men had striven hard to win her favour, and several had wished to marry her; but, liking them all, none had touched her heart. She felt most at ease with Payne, who was a quiet, elderly man and a confirmed bachelor. And he cordially reciprocated her liking.
Look for yourself!" cried Noreen gleefully, pointing with outstretched hand to where Darsie sat, a pale blue figure among a nest of greenery, her little, flushed, laughing face tilted upward on the long white throat, her scattered locks ashine in the sun.
He said that somebody would come here tomorrow to settle what was to be my fate and to take Noreen." The girl sprang up. "You never told me that," she cried. "No; it wasn't any use distressing you," replied her brother. "But I had to tell the Major." She turned impetuously to Dermot and stretched out her arms to him. "You won't let them take me, will you?
And later on he had no objection to her inviting Dermot to pay them a flying visit when he was again in their neighbourhood. For the incident at the club had brought about a resumption of the old friendly relations between Noreen and Dermot, who occasionally invited her to accompany him on Badshah for a short excursion into the forest, much to her delight.
The heavy scent of the flowers coming in at the window almost suffocated her. She seemed to lose a grip of herself. Presently she made an effort at composure. "Noreen Boyne! You were then the second wife of Erris Boyne?" "I was his second wife. His first wife was your mother you are like your mother!" Noreen said in agitation. The meaning was clear. Sheila laid a sharp hand on herself.
With little to occupy her she must rely for days at a time on the sole companionship of her man. To a young bride very much in love that may seem no hardship. But when the glamour has vanished she may change her mind. To Noreen, however, the isolation was infinitely preferable to the narrow-minded and unfriendly intimacy of society in a country town with its snobbery and cliques.
Then Sheila thrust the paper in her bosom, and an instant later a nurse, sent by the resident doctor, entered. "They cannot hang me or banish me, for my end has come," whispered Noreen before Sheila left. In the street of Spanish Town almost the first person Sheila saw was Dyck Calhoun. With pale, radiant look she went to him.
It is that hateful prejudice of the English man and woman in this country. It is different in England. You know I was made a lot of in London. You saw how all the men in that boarding-house we stayed at before we sailed were my friends." "Yes; that was so, Mr. Chunerbutty," replied Noreen, who was secretly tired of the subject, with which he regaled her every day.
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