[The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of Bawn CHAPTER XXVI 2/8
The love of money's not in him any more than it's in me; and he has done many a kind thing." I was able to return the poor soul's kiss because I liked her, and always shall, and was sorry for her. Indeed, I wanted new friends, for the old were angry with me or held aloof from me. When my engagement was announced my godmother had come in hot haste from her cousin's dying bed, which now she hardly left, to remonstrate with my grandfather and grandmother.
She had urged and pleaded with them, had done all she could, seeing that she was, as she said to me, desperately sorry for them, and had finally left them in a coldness. "You poor child!" she said to me when I met her in the avenue, she driving her fast mare in the smart dog-cart which was her favourite equipage, I on foot.
She jumped down and held the reins over her arm while she talked.
"What a face for a bride! Why, Bawn, you are older by ten years than the child I used to know.
They are mad, mad, poor dear souls, to let Garret Dawson frighten them; and I am helpless, because they will tell me nothing.
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