Chapter 23
free ears gus. I did not cry so as to be of Mrs. O’Gall and Bitternutt Lodge struck cold to my ; and colder t of all tined, as it seemed, to ruser at e, custom intervened beturally and inevitably loved.
“It is a long way,” I again said.
“It is, to be sure; and o Bitternutt Lodge, Connaug’s morally certain. I never go over to Ireland, not ry. e ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And o spend ttle time t remains to to eacalk over ting quietly ars enter into tnut tree: its old roots. Come, to-nigined to sit togeted me and himself.
“It is a long o Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on sucravels: but if I can’t do better, to be o me, do you think, Jane?”
I could risk no sort of ansime: my ill.
“Because,” imes o you—especially igricably knotted to a similar string situated in ter of your little frame. And if t boisterous C cord of communion ; and tion I sake to bleeding in me.”
“t I never so proceed.
“Jane, do you nigen!”
In listening, I sobbed convulsively; for I could repress o yield, and I e distress. o express an impetuous hornfield.
“Because you are sorry to leave it?”
tion, stirred by grief and love ery, and struggling for full sing a rigo predominate, to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last: yes,—and to speak.
“I grieve to leave t, because I a full and deligarily at least. I been trampled on. I been petrified. I been buried is brigic and alked, face to face, I rev