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DAIREEN

Volume 2 of 2

By Frank Frankfort Moore


(Transcriber's Note: Chapters XX to XXIV were taken from a print
copy of a different edition as these chapters were missing from the 1889
print edition from which the rest of the Project Gutenberg edition was
taken. In the inserted four chapters it will be noted that the normal
double quotation marks were printed as single quote marks.)



CHAPTER XXIII.


               I have heard of your paintings too.

          _Hamlet_. His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones,

               Would make them capable. Do not look upon me,

               Lest... what I have to do

               Will want true colour....

                   Do you see nothing there?

          _Queen_. No, nothing but ourselves.

          _Hamlet_. Why, look you there...

               Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal.

                        _Hamlet._


|I AM so glad to be beside some one who can tell me all I want to know'
said Lottie, looking up to Colonel Gerald's bronzed face when Mrs.
Crawford and Markham had walked on.

'My dear Lottie, you know very well that you know as much as I do,' he
answered, smiling down at her.

'Oh, Colonel Gerald, how can you say such a thing?' she cried
innocently. 'You know I am always getting into scrapes through my
simplicity.'

'You have managed to get out of a good many in your time, my dear. Is it
by the same means you got out of them, Lottie-your simplicity?'

'Oh, you are as amusing as ever,' laughed the young thing. 'But you must
not be hard upon poor little me, now that I want to ask you so much.
Will you tell me, like a dear good colonel--I know you can if you
choose--