So it was under the roof of her mother's devoted and faithful mourner
that the unhappy young orphan had found a home when she came to hide
herself away from all who had ever known her.
The landlady experienced the same haunting sensation of something
past and gone when she looked on the girl's beautiful face, which had
so puzzled the Baroness; a something which drew and attracted the
warm heart of the Irishwoman, as the magnet draws the steel. Time
and experience had taught Mrs Connor to be discreet in her treatment
of her tenants; to curb her curiosity and control her inclination to
sociability. But in the case of Miss Irving she had found it
impossible to refrain from sundry kindly acts which were not included
in the terms of the contract. Certain savoury dishes found their way
mysteriously to Miss Irving's menage, and flowers appeared in her
room as if by magic, and in various other ways the good heart and
intentions of Mrs Connor were unobtrusively expressed toward her
favourite tenant. Joy had taken a suite of four rooms, where, with
her maid, she lived in modest comfort and complete retirement from
the social world of Beryngford, save as the close connection of the
church with Beryngford society rendered her, in the position of
organist, a participant in many of the social features of the town.
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