"I suppose he looks after the sheep and says his prayers, and keeps his money together." "And there has been no attempt at a reconciliation ?" Phineas asked.
"She went abroad to escape his attempts, and remains there in order that she may be safe.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest." In September Finn was back in Ireland, and about the end of that month he made his first visit to Tankerville.

He remained there for three or four days, and was terribly disgusted while staying at the "Yellow" inn, to find that the people of the town would treat him as though he were rolling in wealth.

He was soon tired of Tankerville, and as he could do nothing further, on the spot, till the time for canvassing should come on, about ten days previous to the election, he returned to London, somewhat at a loss to know how to bestir himself.

But in London he received a letter from another old friend, which decided him:-- My dear Mr.Finn, [said the letter] of course you know that Oswald is now master of the Brake hounds.