Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: my blood and broken my heart! But oh, my little girl, I've given you an Irish spirit and God loves the Irish —' all's well with the world! ' " He kissed her and made way for a child in her little nightie with braids down her back, coming to say her belated prayers. The mother fondled the girl for a second and set her kneeling, as the Doctor paused on the stair landing and gazed beseechingly across the little figure. The woman looked for a moment at the man, then shook her head, and the Colonel from his post down the corridor heard the front door open and close and felt the night wind blowing through the house. PART III When the Nixons came home from Europe — from their two years' sojourn in Europe — the Professor brought back sundry medals, degrees and honourable parchments from the universities in what the Colonel called the effete and crumbling capitals of Europe. And the town was properly impressed. But Lalla Rookh, she that was born Longford, brought back seven trunk-loads of plunder. And she gave a series of exhibitions for hercorals from Naples and cameos from Florence, for her beaten silver and scarfs from Rome, for her prints from Germany, for her millinery from Paris and her silks from London. Then too she slipped through the custom-house before the very eyes of the inspectors a series of poses, which she used in her home — for practice — and when there was an audience, for applause; and these elaborate poses, that she had collected from the statuary of the museums, gave her such a classical effect that Archimedes spoke of her always as the Goddess of Longheath. From her face, which had taken form and colour from the galleries of Germany, it was obvious that she had some sort of notion that she was a kind of Madonna of the Clubs — the federated clubs. But t...