The Dear Irish Girl Author:Katharine Tynan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: A. C. McClurg Subjects: Ireland History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books editi... more »on of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III, A DELIVERER. " There's a feast undated yet: Both our true lives hold it fast The first day we ever met." Mrs. Montague left Dublin the next morning, and, a little later in the day, Biddy received by post an old pearl necklet with a little diamond heart-shaped clasp, " to wear in memory of her mother's friend." Biddy was not likely to forget the donor; her heart had gone out to that charming vision with an affection as full and impulsive as it was rare with her. Few human beings had reached her heart, though so many dumb creatures had. She wore the necklet, a little later, at a young people's dance in the Square. Her father had rather made a point of her attending this festivity. Perhaps his conscience had been pricking him since that talkwith his old friend, that he had allowed his little girl to grow up strange among her kind. Biddy set her teeth to it like a Spartan. She felt, with a passionate dislike, that this world where she must enter was not her world; but she never winced under her father's entreating eyes, helpless with a masculine helplessness. She came to him before she went out, and he held her at arm's length while he gazed fondly at the delightfully picturesque figure she made in her gala dress. It was a short-waisted, long-skirted thing of white satin, out of which Biddy's shoulders rose soft and warm-coloured. Mrs. Montague's pearls were round her neck, milky as they. Her father looked at her with tender pride. " My dear Biddy!" he said, in loving commendat...« less