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We and the World, Part II. (of II.)

CHAPTER XVII
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Dennis gave the other woman some money, and told her to give Biddy a good meal--to have given money to her would have been useless--and he tried hard to convince the old woman that Micky was quite able to leave America if he wished.

At last she seemed to take this in, and it gave her, I fear, undue comfort, from the conviction that, if this were so, he would soon be home.
After we left Biddy we went to seek decent lodgings for the night.

For Dennis was anxious to see her again in the morning, and of course I stayed with him.
"Had you ever seen her before ?" I asked, as we walked.
"Not to remember her.

But, Jack, it wasn't Barney I saw in that first dream.

It was Bridget." Dennis was full of plans for getting her home with him to Ireland; but when we went back next day, we found a crowd round the archway that led into the court.


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