Lord Kilgobbin : a tale of Ireland in our own time . king that she fears Illfind the coffee cold, she goes on with her breakfast, kisses her Malteseterrier, asks him a few questions about his health, and whether hewould like to be in a warmer climate, and then sails away. * And how she walks ! Is she bored here? She says not. * She can scarcely like these peo^ple : theyre not the sort ofthing slic has ever been used to. Slie tells me she likes them: they certainly like her. * AYell, said Lockwood, with a sigh, shes the most beautifalwoman, certainly, Ive ever seen; and, at this moment, Id rath
Lord Kilgobbin : a tale of Ireland in our own time . king that she fears Illfind the coffee cold, she goes on with her breakfast, kisses her Malteseterrier, asks him a few questions about his health, and whether hewould like to be in a warmer climate, and then sails away. * And how she walks ! Is she bored here? She says not. * She can scarcely like these peo^ple : theyre not the sort ofthing slic has ever been used to. Slie tells me she likes them: they certainly like her. * AYell, said Lockwood, with a sigh, shes the most beautifalwoman, certainly, Ive ever seen; and, at this moment, Id rathereat a crust with a glass of beer under a hedge than Id go down andsit at breakfast with her. Ill be shot if Ill not tell her that speech the first day Imdown again. * So you may, for by that time I shall have seen her for the lasttime. And with this he strolled out of the room and down thestairs towards the breakfast-parlour. As he stood at the door he heard the sound of voices laughingand talking pleasantly. He entered, and Nina arose as he came. A SICK ROOM. 85 foi-ward, and said, Let me present my cousin—Mr. PJcliardKearney, Major Lockwood; his friend, Mr. Atlee. The two young men stood up—Kearney stiff and haughty, andAtlco with a sort of easy assurance that seemed to suit his good-looking hut certainly snobhish style. As for Lockwood, he was toomuch a gentleman to have more than one manner, and he receivedthese two men as he would have received any other two of any rankanywhere. These gentlemen have been showing me some strange versionsof our little incident here in the Dublin papers, said Niua to Lock-wood. I scarcely thought we should become so famous. I suppose they dont stickle much for truth, said Lockwood,as he broke his egg, in leisurely fashion. They were scarcely able to provide a special correspondent forthe event, said Atlee ; but I take it they give the main factspretty accurately and fairly. Indeed ! said Lockwood, more struck by the manner than bythe wo
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