Mrs. Geoffrey
Mrs. Geoffrey
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re at Mangle Farm," returns she. Then, judging by the blank expression on his face that her words bring him no comfort, she continues with a smile, "That doesn't seem to help you much, does it?"
He returns her smile in full,--very full. "I confess it doesn't help me at all," he says. "Mangle Farm, I am sure, is the most attractive spot on earth, but it tells me nothing about latitude or longitude. Give me some further help."
"Then tell me where you come from, and perhaps I may be able." She speaks softly, but quickly, as do all the Irish, and with a brogue musical but unmistakable.
"I am staying at a shooting-lodge called Coolnagurtheen. Do you know where that is."
"Oh, of course," returns she, with a sudden accession of animation. "I have often seen it. That is where the young English gentleman is staying for the shooting."
"Quite right. And I am the young English gentleman," says Geoffrey, lifting his hat again by way of introduction.
"Indeed, are you?" ask
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