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A TRIP TO PARIS. " 259
to come over and see Dick before the week was
out.
The next day I spoke to Joyce, and asked him if he
would care to sell me the lease of the land he now held.
He seemed rejoiced at the chance of being able to get
away.
" I will go gladly, though, sure enough, I'll be sad
for a while to lave the shpot where I was born, and
where I've lived all me life. But whin Norah is gone
an' sure she'll never be back, for I'm thinkin' that after
—
her school ye'll want to get married at once
! "
" That we shall I interrupted.
"An' right enough too! But widout her the place
will be that lonesome that I don't think I could abear
it! Me sister '11 go over to Knocknacar to live wid me
married sister there, that'll be only too happy to have
her with her ; and I'll go over to Glasgow where Eugene
is at work. The boy wants me to come, and whin I wrote
and tould him of Norah's engagement, he wrote at once
askin' me to lave the Hill and come to him. He says
that before the year is out he hopes to be able to keep
himself—an' me, too, if we should want it—an' he wrote
such a nice letter to Norah—but the girl will like to
tell ye about that herself! I can't sell ye the Cliff
Fields meself, for they belong to Norah ; but if ye like
to ask her I'm sure she'll make no objection."
" I should be glad to have them," I said, " but all
shall be her's in two years !
And then and there we arranged for the sale of the