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LESBIA NEWMAN.
It’s over now, and I’m as hungry for creature comforts as you can be.’
Mr Bristley produced the packet and bottle with much relief at the change in the young girl’s manner. Presently they reached the road again by a ravine which led directly down to it, and in about ten minutes afterwards found themselves again on the landing-place at Whitegate, where the same boat was awaiting them on the chance of a back fare. They took it, of course, and scudded swiftly back to Queenstown before a favourable breeze. The special interest of that place, however, was now exhausted, and the following day they proceeded by rail to Cork, and the next day to the Jakes of Killarney.
