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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XV
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She was in her mood of Planxty Kelly and Garryowen all the way.

'Madame est Irlandaise ?' Redworth heard the Frenchman say, and he owned to what was implied in the answering tone of the question.

'We should be dull dogs without the Irish leaven!' So Tony in exile still managed to do something for her darling Erin.

The solitary woman on her heights at Copsley raised an exclamation of, 'Oh! that those two had been or could be united!' She was conscious of a mystic symbolism in the prayer.
She was not apprehensive of any ominous intervention of another.

Writing from Venice, Diana mentioned Mr.Percy Dacier as being engaged to an heiress; 'A Miss Asper, niece of a mighty shipowner, Mr.Quintin Manx, Lady Esquart tells me: money fabulous, and necessary to a younger son devoured with ambition.


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