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Old Shot had lived for five years after Sir Shawn O'Gara's marriage to Mary Creagh, which had sorely offended and alienated Mrs. Comerford, who had brought up the girl from childhood and loved her like a daughter. When he had died it was by Lady O'Gara's wish that the dog was buried in the grass-plot just outside the drawing-room window.
There was nothing assertive about it. It was quite unconscious. She seemed profoundly agitated by Lady O'Gara's visit, her colour coming and going, her eyes dilated. She had put out a hand as Susan Horridge went away, almost as though she would have detained her by force. "Please forgive my coming in like this," Lady O'Gara said. "I was knocking for some time, but you did not hear me.
The great moment had come and gone: and there was Aunt Grace talking about Farrell's car as though all that lay between them had been but a dream. Lady O'Gara's eyes suddenly filled with tears. "Ah, you are tired," she said with soft tenderness, "you are tired!" The change the years had wrought in the tall handsome woman who had been queenly to her young mind overwhelmed her.
To Lady O'Gara's anxious eye Sir Shawn looked pale. He had been pale of late, with curious shadows about his face, but when she had asked him if he was not feeling well he had answered with an air of lightness that he felt as well as ever he had felt. At the luncheon table he sat with his back to the light. The persistence of those shadows in his face worried her loving heart. She wondered if Mrs.
Then her expression softened as she saw the shadow on Terry O'Gara's candid face. "Give her time," she said. "If your father and mother will not mind her being my daughter why I think you should ask her." "Where have you been hiding yourself all this time?" Mrs. Comerford asked, with a certain roughness. "If I had known where you were I might have extracted this story from you earlier.
'Oh, they haven't told him. I could see by his eyes that he thought that. I felt infernally frightened, I can tell you!" "Oh, but why, Shawn?" Lady O'Gara's eyes fluttered nervously in the candlelight. She was frightened at her own complicity, really frightened for the first time. "Why shouldn't the poor children be happy? I know you like Eileen better than Stella.
You did not find the gate padlocked when you came?" "No, m'lady. 'Twas Mr. Kenny. He guessed I'd be frightened, so he brought the padlock and put it on himself." The finest little line showed itself in Lady O'Gara's smooth forehead. Her skin was extraordinarily unfretted for her forty-five years of life.
They had their own intuitions of the joyful expectancy in the house and what it meant. Shot would take to lying in the hall, with one wistful eye fixed on the open hall door, while Lady O'Gara's two Poms became quite hysterical, rushing out when there was no one at all or some one they were well accustomed to, assailing them with foolish shrieks.
I expect they've left a mark on the wall-paper where they were taken down, for he said he'd got to do some papering for himself." It was on Lady O'Gara's tongue to utter a gentle warning that Patsy must not be too much about the South lodge, but the warning remained unspoken. "He's the best man I ever knew," said Susan, "I didn't know there was his like in the world.
Lady O'Gara's first terror was of a scene which should waken Stella and alarm her in her weak state. She made as if to stand between the two women: she looked fearfully for the signs of the rising storm as she remembered them in Mrs. Comerford, the heaving breast, the working hands, the dilated nostrils. But there were none of these signs. Instead Mrs. Comerford was curiously quiet.
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