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Light O' THE Morning L T Meade

"[...] "Sweet or not," said the mother, "she has got to learn her lesson of life; and it is no good to be too tender with her; she wants a little bracing." "You have been trying that on-eh?" "Well, not exactly, Pat; but you cannot expect me to keep all our troubles to ourselves. There's that mortgage, you know." "Bother the mortgage!" said the Squire. "Why do you harp on things the way you do? I'll manage it right enough. I am going round to see Dan Murphy now; he won't be hard on an old friend." "Yes; but have you not to pay up?" "Some day, I suppose." "Now listen, Patrick. Do be reasonable. Whenever I speak of money you fight shy of the subject."[...]."