Page 315 - The snake's pass

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A GRIM WARNING. 303 ;
" Norah my darlin', it isn't that. Ye've always been
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the good and dutiful daughter to me ; an' in all your pretty
life there's not wan thing I wish undone or unsaid. But
I'm older than you, daughter, an' I know more iv the
world ; an' what I say, is best for ye—now, and in yer
future. I'm goin' to live wid Eugene ; an' afther a while
'11 be somethin' different from what I
I suppose I, too,
am. An' thin, whin I've lived awhile in a city, and got
somethin' of city ways, I'll come an' see ye, maybe. Ye
must remimber, that it's not only of you we've to think,
but of th' other girls in the school. I don't want to have
any of them turnin' up their noses at ye—that's not
the way to get the best out iv school, me dear ; for I sup-
pose school is like everywhere else in the world—the
higher ye're able to hould yer head, the more others '11
look up to ye !
His words were so obviously true, that not one of
us had a word to say, and the matter was acquiesced in
nem. con. I myself got leave to accompany the party as
far as London—but not beyond. It was further arranged
that Joyce should take his daughter to Galway, to get
some clothes for her — just enough to take her to Paris
—and that when in Paris she should have a full outfit
under the direction of Madame Lepechaux. They were
to leave on Friday, so as to have the Saturday in Galway
and as Norah wanted to say good-bye on the Sunday
to old schoolfellows and friends in the convent, they
would return on Monday, the 25th October. Accord-
ingly, on the morning after next, Joyce took a letter