He never wrote to them--that may have been selfish, but it was a part of the flattery of his trust of me; for the way in which a man pays his highest tribute to a woman is apt to be but by the more festal celebration of one of the sacred laws of his comfort; and I held that I carried out the spirit of the pledge given not to appeal to him when I let my charges understand that their own letters were but charming literary exercises. An American captain made me a present of them last night in Queenstown. Pride after satisfaction uplifted him like long slow waves. He took up his knife and fork again in good humour and set to eating, saying to Mr Casey: --Let us have the story, John.
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