"Tell me!"
"It was from Tom Moore: 'Oh, there's nothin' half so sweet in life As Love's young dream.'"
When O'Connell came into the room later he realised that the great summons had come to his little girl.
He felt a dull pain at his heart.
But only for a moment.
The thought came to him that he was about to give to England his daughter in marriage! Well, had he not taken from the English one of her fairest daughters as his wife?
And a silent prayer went up from his heart that happiness would abide with his Peg and her 'Jerry' and that their romance would last longer than had Angela's and his.
AFTERWORD
And now the moment has come to take leave of the people I have lived with for so long. Yet, though I say "Adieu!" I feel it is only a temporary leave-taking. Their lives are so linked with mine that some day in the future I may be tempted to draw back the curtain and show the passage of years in their various lives.