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Excerpt from From Killarney to New York: Or, How Thade Became a Banker
"Tis but a step down yonder lane,
And the little church stands near;
The church where we were wed, Mary,
I see its spire from here."
The Countess of Gifford.
"Well, I give you your choice, my good man; if you don't care for yourself, care for your boy. The society which I represent will undertake to feed, clothe and educate him the moment you" - the speaker paused. The grey shades of death were settling down in all the awfulness of that time when famine was the slayer of thousands; but there was a fine scorn on the face of the dying man - a scorn which even an angelic being might have expressed if tempted by Lucifer to exchange heaven for earth.
The little flame of life was flickering in the frail socket of humanity, but it flashed up into a blaze as the devil offered his bait.
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