The Man in Possession — page 328: what you’re looking at

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THE MAN IN POSSESSION. 323 treatment of her boy, a circumstance which did not materially affect the happiness or content of that young lady. Cornelius O’Brien decided to live abroad after his daughter's marriage, and managed to do so very pleasantly and successfully, with the help of an ‘‘ oc- casional loan” from his son-in-law, which—like Tom Smith’s fifty pounds—passed gracefully and gradually into the limbo of forgotten debts. When Mrs, Lafaye returned to New York, as Mrs. Mark Elmore Lawrence, she took Biddy with her, declaring that she was, without exception, the most ‘‘ original domestic she had ever come across.” The ‘‘original,” to prove herself worthy of her character, married a sailor on board the vessel that took her out, and so never entered her new mistress’s service at all. And Kate ?—Kate is so happy, so lovely, so en- tirely changed from the harassed, care-worn girl of that fateful Christmas Eve, that her husband, proudand adoring as he is, and a little inclined sometimes to be jealous of the admiration she excites, cannot fail to be content with the assurance she gives him that she owes the change entirely to himself, and has long ceased to resent the fact that Tom Smith was as worthy to be loved as Tom Rivers. THE END. yore s* - LIB RAR aN . yz. COMicloe (Sri C(O)