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Rossmoyne

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A young woman arrives at a rural estate and quickly becomes the focus of household attention as servants, guardians, and local acquaintances shape her days. Episodic scenes trace flirtations, secret discoveries, jealous suspicions, and the plotting and counterplotting of suitors and relatives. Comic misunderstandings alternate with moments of remorse and moral testing, while inquiries and revelations progressively clarify motives and mend strained relations. The narrative blends social observation and melodrama to follow how private feelings, small deceptions, and social expectations are exposed and resolved across a sequence of domestic incidents.

Transcriber's corrections

  • p. 7: man!" says[say] Miss Priscilla, with such terrible energy and such a
  • p. 7: this dismal picture. Tears born of tenderness spring[pring] to her
  • p. 8: of vicious satisfaction[satisfactiou] for her.
  • p. 15: then, not Ryan or the cook, but a much more perplexing[preplexing] vision
  • p. 17: The Beresfords are[ars] like so many clocks wound up, and
  • p. 22: "Yes, some other time," echoes Miss Penelope[Penolope], gently.
  • p. 24: she pretty, Reilly[Rielly]?"
  • p. 27: To-morrow[To morrow], if to-day proves successful and her rowing does
  • p. 30: why lose this lovely afternoon, and that corner you were speaking of[speak of]?
  • p. 40: child, this girl, Bella," says Miss Priscilla, still full of reminiscences[reminiscenses],
  • p. 44: "She is a regular old wretch!" says the youngest Miss[Uiss]
  • p. 47: Miss Priscilla Blake then enters the carriage. She is followed[follow]
  • p. 50: face, but very velvety eyes and a smile rare but handsome[handsone].
  • p. 54: amuse himself with, and he ought to be proud of his victories[victorles]."
  • p. 56: "Then let me come too[to]?"
  • p. 56: changes, and he colors perceptibly[perceptibily]; he hesitates too, and regards
  • p. 60: "I decline to shrink," with unparalleled[unparalled] bravery. "I prefer
  • p. 63: making Mr. Desmond preternaturally[perternaturally] grave.
  • p. 68: "Don't trouble yourself to do that again," says Monica[Moncia]
  • p. 68: rude[rud] things about Ireland, because I don't like that either."
  • p. 69: even to herself, ignores that ignominious[ignominous] first) to declare in this
  • p. 71: This with the learned air of one who could[would] say
  • p. 87: "No giving in, no shilly-shallying[shilly-shillying], but downright determination.
  • p. 91: In fact, he is so kind-hearted that I cannot think how[now] all that
  • p. 91: At this Monica blushes a little, and twirls her rings[rings her] round her
  • p. 93: that, as[a] I am not in love with any one, and hope I never shall
  • p. 98: which has been accepted by Mitchell as a deliberate[delibirate] insult.
  • p. 105: man is waiting and it is woefully[wofully] late."
  • p. 108: kept it for you all along, you know. If you tell me you[yu] have
  • p. 108: fat young marine, so it cannot be said that she has[has she] altogether a
  • p. 112: turn again[egain] to the room beyond, and make search for the siren
  • p. 120: "You were indeed!" interrupting him hastily, with a contemptuous[comtemptuous]
  • p. 123: "Others[Other's] can!" says Mr. Ronayne. As he speaks he
  • p. 125: Terence, in a tone that is not to be borne[born].
  • p. 140: breed tyranny[tryanny]—that she hardly turns aside to meditate upon
  • p. 147: "Not to-day[to day], I think," says Monica, lazily.
  • p. 149: pointing[pionting] to a hanging spray of pink blossoms, satisfying as a
  • p. 151: ago) that a dark-blue petticoat beneath, of some[come] coarse description,
  • p. 151: says; but it's belike I'll never see a sight of his handsome[handsone] face
  • p. 154: ugly spalpeen, if ye came without a civil tongue in yer head[hand]?"
  • p. 157: for[or] him close to Monica. "What's the matther wid ye to-day,
  • p. 157: keenly from Brian[Brain] to Kit, and then back again.
  • p. 158: but with a lovely smile. "I am going to[] pick to some ferns for Aunt
  • p. 159: and she repents[ her] of her last words.
  • p. 160: aggrieved[agrieved]; "that is visiting the sins of the uncles upon
  • p. 165: After this come[comes] sundry other jottings, such as—
  • p. 166: "Oh, don't! my dear Penelope!" says Miss Priscilla[Penelope], with
  • p. 166: he is,"—pointing through the window[winddw] to where Terence may
  • p. 169: Mrs. Herrick, regards with dismay[disma].
  • p. 171: "Nevertheless[Neverheless] speak. Anything is better than this ghastly
  • p. 174: Conscience forbidding her, she abstains from[fron] entering those
  • p. 178: "Do not say another[auother] word," says Monica, imperiously.
  • p. 182: you. What shall I swear by, then?" he asks, half laughing[laughinn]:
  • p. 186: and in perfect good faith. She knows[knowns] less of him than the
  • p. 187: Fancy a frowzy couch saturated with tears! you know," reproachfully[rereproachfully]
  • p. 190: arms,—as is[in] his habit with most children, being a special favorite
  • p. 205: readily let her tapered[taper] fingers droop until they touch the pale
  • p. 206: "And the good man! What of him?" says[say] Desmond, looking
  • p. 206: like a superannuated[superanuated] ghost, only awfuller."
  • p. 207: "That's[Taat's] a good thing," says Madam O'Connor, entering,
  • p. 210: forever, boy though[through] you deem me; and, yet, is one ever a boy
  • p. 211: nearer," says Mrs. Bohun, with[wiih] a soft laugh.
  • p. 215: quarrel," says[said] Mrs. Herrick, in a perfectly even tone: "so don't
  • p. 217: with himself too," says Olga, provokingly. "Really. I think[thinh]
  • p. 223: "Don't be stupid!" says[say] this prospective wife, with considerable
  • p. 223: "Don't be stupid!" says this prospective wife, with[wth] considerable
  • p. 223: with increasing[ in] temper.
  • p. 223: The denouement[denoument] was full of interest,—positively thrilling! I
  • p. 223: have addressed me that contemptuous[comtemptuous] remark."
  • p. 234: "I am very glad of that," says Monica[Mouica], simply; and then
  • p. 237: return, and thinking, somewhat sadly, how small a way[away] he has
  • p. 238: Monica's week at Aghyohillbeg[Aghyohillberg] is drawing to a close.
  • p. 239: protector. Faith, you needn't laugh, for it's[its] only common
  • p. 241: the slightest[slighest] thought of her money."
  • p. 242: "I know," says Monica, mysteriously: "she is asleep,—getting[gerting]
  • p. 242: room, is gazing with dreamy delight at the pretty gown[grown] Miss
  • p. 243: up this book) have mercy[merci]—that is, unfortunately, been debarred
  • p. 248: the Egyptian[Egyptain] charcoal in the world could not make them long
  • p. 248: usual[nsual]. "I see nothing in it. My grandmother always rouged,—put
  • p. 251: How Madam O'Connor tells[tell] how lovers throve in the good old days when
  • p. 255: You," uncertainly, "are going home to-morrow[to morrow], are
  • p. 259: "I think[lhink] all women would be better without them; and as
  • p. 265: and the cowardly would-be assassin[assassins] so far is safe from arrest.
  • p. 265: discuss[disscuss] the outrage.
  • p. 265: "I retract[retrace] every foolish word I said a few minutes since.
  • p. 272: much precipitancy[preciptancy], he flings his cigar to the winds, and, before
  • p. 272: and——" Her voice trembles ominously[ominiously].
  • p. 274: CHAPTER[CHAPTEK] XXVII.
  • p. 275: off a piece of the cake and puts it in his mouth[mouths]. Desmond,
  • p. 276: But just at the very last she had given way, and had flung[flnng]
  • p. 278: it. It casts despair upon the hopes that are[is] kindling afresh within
  • p. 278: of her own hapless[hapeless] love story) between her slender fingers,
  • p. 281: A pang, a sudden thought, shoots through[though] him, and renders
  • p. 281: his voice, "try to forgive[foigive] her; be gentle with her. It was all
  • p. 281: of old-world[old-words] grandeur in her manner, but a sad tremulousness
  • p. 285: Priscilla gets apparently[apparenly] lost in the pages of "Temple Bar."
  • p. 285: An hour glides by with aggravating slowness[slowuess]; and then a
  • p. 287: you feel yourself pretty low[ow]. But I'd advise you to wait and see
  • p. 289: they say—that she—and James Beresford[Berestord]—did not get on at
  • p. 290: if you will look upon that as settled[setted], so shall I."
  • p. 298: She laughs outright at this, and glances[glance] at him from under
  • p. 301: and a sense of chill and fear, as strong as it is foolish, is overpowering[overpowdering]