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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: absolute confidence ? demanded the girl, with some pride, but with her eyes cast down. And there was no one there to interpose and cry, Oh, woman, woman, come away, and let the child dream her dream If it is all a mistake?if it has to be repented for in hot tears and with an aching heart?if it lasts for but a year, a month, a day?leave her with this beautiful faith in love and life a.id heroism which may soon enough be taken away from her. CHAPTER III. THE MEMBER FOR BALLINASCROON. In the first-floor room of a small house in Piccadilly a young man of six-and-twenty or so was busily writing letters. By rights the room should have been a drawing-room?and a woman might have made of it a very pretty drawing-room indeed? but there were no flowers or trailing creepers in- the small balcony; there were no lace curtains to prevent the sunlight streaming through the open French windows full on the worn and faded carpet; while this half study, half parlor, had scattered about in it all the signs of a bachelor's existence in the shape of wooden pipes, time-tables, slippers, and the like. When the letters were finished the writer struck a bell before him on the table. His servant appeared. You will post those letters, Jackson, said he, and have a hansom ready for me at 3.15. Yes, sir, said the man; and then he hesitated. Beg your pardon, sir, but the gentlemen below are rather impatient, sir? they are a little excited, sir. Very well, said the young man, carelessly. Take my bag down. Stay; here are some papers you had better put in. He rose and went to get the papers?one or two thin blue- books and some drafted bills ? and now one may get a better look at the Member for Ballinascroon. He was not over five feet eight; but he was a bony, firm-fra...
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