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soon, it is, yer riverence, for me shtories."
"Small the doubt," said Father Rogan. "There's no
rocking would put him to slape the quicker, I'm thinking."
Amid the woman's shrill protest against the retort, the
two men ascended the steep stairway. The priest pushed
open the door of a room near its top.
"Is that you already, sister?" drawled a sweet, childish
voice from the darkness.
"It's only ould Father Denny come to see ye, darlin';
and a foine gentleman I've brought to make ye a gr-r-and
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