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Her diamonds and pearls, in her solitude, mystified me, making me, as she had had no such brave jewels in the days of the Hammond Synges, wonder what undreamt-of improvement had taken place in her fortunes. The ghost of a question hovered there a moment: could anything so prodigious have happened as that on her tested and proved amendment Lord Iffield had taken her back?
And, begging your pardon, might I ask your name? I told him. 'There are two branches of the Synges in the County Wicklow, he said, and then he went on to tell me fragments of folk-lore connected with my forefathers.
That fate, in London, very little later, drove him straight before it drove him one Sunday afternoon, in the rain, to the door of the Hammond Synges. He marched in other words close up to the cannon that was to blow him to pieces.
Her diamonds and pearls, in her solitude, mystified me, making me, as she had had no such brave jewels in the days of the Hammond Synges, wonder what undreamt-of improvement had taken place in her fortunes. The ghost of a question hovered there a moment: could anything so prodigious have happened as that on her tested and proved amendment Lord Iffield had taken her back?
The Hammond Synges were perhaps not so vulgar, but they had no conscience in their dealings with her. "She knows what I think of them," said Mrs. Meldrum, "and indeed she knows what I think of most things." "She shares that privilege with most of your friends!" I replied laughing. "No doubt; but possibly to some of my friends it makes a little difference. That girl doesn't care a button.
"Yet its attractions say nothing to Flora?" "Oh Flora's by no means on her back!" my fried declared. "She's not on her back because she's on yours. Have you got her for the rest of your life?" Once more Mrs. Meldrum genially glared. "Did she tell you how much the Hammond Synges have kindly left her to live on? Not quite eighty pounds a year." "That's a good deal, but it won't pay the oculist.
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