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She had no sooner finished that speech than the scorn died out of her face: "Ah, no," she cried repentant; "the men and women who are driven to seek such redress I I truly pity them but for me it would not be any use even if it were right. O'Shea says it would be no use, and he knows. I don't think I would do it if I could; but I could not if I would." "Surely he is dead," pleaded Caius.
She is not well enough to come down to dinner, and they have scruples about leaving her in solitude. 'At least we'll have a cigar after dinner, was Dick's ungallant reflection as they moved away. 'I hope they had a pleasanter dinner downstairs than we have had here, said Nina, as, after wishing Miss O'Shea a good-night, the young girls slowly mounted the stairs.
'No, not Kate Kitty, rejoined he quickly. 'Oh yes, perhaps, when you were young, but we grew out of that. 'Did we? And when? 'When we gave up climbing cherry-trees, and ceased to pull each other's hair when we were angry. 'Oh dear! said he drearily, as his head sank heavily. 'You seem to sigh over those blissful times, Mr. O'Shea, said she, 'as if they were terribly to be regretted.
'But surely O'Shea's Barn, being the residence and property of his aunt, there was no impropriety in his going there? 'The informant states that the place was in the tenancy of this said Gill, one of your own people, Mr. Kearney. I wish you luck of him. 'I disown him, root and branch; he is a disgrace to any side. And where is Miss Betty O'Shea? 'In a convent or a monastery, they say.
Kearney, as he believed he had summed up the meaning of a very blundering explanation by Gorman O'Shea; 'isn't that it? 'Yes, sir; I suppose it comes to that. 'The old story, I've no doubt, if we only knew it as old as the Patriarchs: the young ones go into debt, and think it very hard that the elders dislike the paying it. 'No, no; I have no debts at least, none to speak of.
'Do; and tell her that I gave you the same commission for Miss O'Shea, and was grieved that both should have been done by deputy! And with this he hurried away. When the Government came into office, they were sorely puzzled where to find a Lord-Lieutenant for Ireland.
'We'll be in a scrape about all this, if we don't make him in the wrong. His audience fully appreciated the counsel, and while a few were busied in carrying old Gill to the house for a broken leg made him unable to reach it alone the others placed O'Shea on some straw in a cart, and set out with him to Kilbeggan. 'It is not a trespass at all, said McEvoy.
"It would not occur to me" there was still the slight quaintness of one unaccustomed to English "that you could do anything unworthy of a gentleman." Another pause, and Caius knew that he was bound over to keep the peace. "I think O'Shea got himself into trouble, and that he did the best he could for you; but O'Shea lives not far from your own house.
Still the same blue sky; still the same serene sun; but in the place of a quiet grey house wreckage, dust, death. And around us the first frenzy of panic. "Do you put that down to an aeroplane?" I looked up to see Jimmy O'Shea beside me. "All right, mother." He was patting an excited woman on her back. "I'll help you."
'Why, surely you have not passed the whole day in Kearney's company without some hint of what you came here for? But at the same moment they were in the dining-room. 'We are a man party to-day, I am sorry to say, cried old Kearney, as they entered. 'My niece and my daughter are keeping Miss O'Shea company upstairs.
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