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but a short was The churchyard and he bent his walk away, steps in He stood over His that direction. full of and mother's grave father's. he been Had melancholy thoughts. would have so loved what his mother ? a Would to see him, good man were he feel proud of him his father back to him now alive ? There came " I those words heard in delirium
;
be
you'll
to
the
and
good man,
a
as
Father
Ryan's
was friend the churchyard
than
it
had
rationalistic
converted.
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was
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Wales.
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door
have
he
thought,
of decay. The walk vestiges and some the windowof rotting, .were from the house. panes missing door at a He went up and knocked that opened where his father's library to came used to be No one open, while it and a after long waiting to that him the occurred people Then he turned be at church.
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say you, priest Berkley says of your father Catholic Christian gentleman." is a and he They rang through his head, on his his knees there to dropped parents' grave, and prayed.
the
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might
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know
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old.
was
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several
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less,
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of
as
old-fashioned
garden, to but the be sure, and well-kept, and poppies and dahlias hollyhocks were there as just they had been in The his mother's time. people who must on the premises be shift lived
over
would
regret
same
W.
He where !
mixed of joy with feelings that he opened a gate that But a little. everything
was
and
Chenhall.
that
seen
born.
was
It
Edward
had
Mrs. passed Sayton's was almost as he recalled everything no it fifteen years ago, and had seen one. But he would call there later ; where and so he went up the road to
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glimpses home re if his father's wondered the same; there remained mained if. of the pretty vines his there now any care But what, mother's had reared. he could if it were so,: what pleasure now derive from it ? Strangers to owned the place. But he wanted of see that the finger distorting It was touched it. change had not the hillside as of old. As he climbed the the first that came into view was were home There of Mrs. Say ton. he- and Mary the old buttonba'lf trees And had so often beneath. played the as he came near he saw between cluster roadside and the fence a little How -he re well of sweet-william. membered the watch he and Mary .
FOR
passing Father
church. from
drill
was
if
for Brassville deeply perplexed, were one and the and Mattatuck he had then same, unknowingly visited his old home that April night had and the young operated lady he there. He lived speculated upon whether she had entire! v recovered, as he had not heard of her since1. And so he sat in the hotel window the vexed problem in his revolving ring their letter
;
better
gives
than
in It
and
t-ale
largest satisfaction
specious
DRILL,
FERTILISER
Guilfoil.
so
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how he had foolish been, his reasoning he now clearly to think But care saw. he didn't too the he was about past long in the for much absorbed present He directed that: his steps to that had where his home of the town part He been. could see the hills beyond, the trees and between greening He came to him. of houses
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mother
to his eagerly him the before weeks of several
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before.
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