Denys the Dreamer Author:Katharine Tynan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: W. Collins Sons 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 edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V AT THE OPERA Denys was in London for some ten days, during which he was the guest of Mr and Mrs Aarons, before the business was settled up and the money finally paid over. Sometimes it seemed to him that Mr Aarons was deliberately slow about settling the matter, but of course that could not be. It would have been a delightful time if he had not been so anxious to get back to Ireland. He wanted to make a clean breast of what he had been doing to Lord Leenane. Oddly enough, now that he had settled the matter very much to his own liking, he began to be a little afraid as to how Lord Leenane would take his interference. He was accustomed to an unreasonable pride in his countrymen. Would Leenane swear at him for his meddlesomeness and refuse to take the release he had obtained? A far-fetched idea, but it was quite on the cards. He vexed himself over this contingency in his quiet moments. He had not so very many. Mrs Aarons was showing him London, with a kind thoroughness. He went everywhere. He was meeting many interesting people. She seemed to go where she would, and she carried him in her train to various great houses, where she was obviously held in honour. He heard wonderful music, wonderful talk. He saw people of whom he hadread in the newspapers. Altogether, it was a wonderful open window on Life with a large L. At one of the smart houses, where there was a big evening partj', Denys found himself sitting in a corner with a little old, great lady, whose bright eyes shone at him from amid a network of wrinkles in a tiny old parchment face. He hardly kne...« less