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He
had
been
for
many
years
cashier
of
a
private
bank
in
Baggot
Street
.
Every
morning
he
came
in
from
Chapelizod
by
tram
.
At
midday
he
went
to
Dan
Burke
's
and
took
his
lunch
--
a
bottle
of
lager
beer
and
a
small
trayful
of
arrowroot
biscuits
.
At
four
o'clock
he
was
set
free
.
He
dined
in
an
eating-house
in
George
's
Street
where
he
felt
himself
safe
from
the
society
o
Dublin
's
gilded
youth
and
where
there
was
a
certain
plain
honesty
in
the
bill
of
fare
.
His
evenings
were
spent
either
before
his
landlady
's
piano
or
roaming
about
the
outskirts
of
the
city
.
His
liking
for
Mozart
's
music
brought
him
sometimes
to
an
opera
or
a
concert
:
these
were
the
only
dissipations
of
his
life
.
He
had
neither
companions
nor
friends
,
church
nor
creed
.
He
lived
his
spiritual
life
without
any
communion
with
others
,
visiting
his
relatives
at
Christmas
and
escorting
them
to
the
cemetery
when
they
died
.
He
performed
these
two
social
duties
for
old
dignity
's
sake
but
conceded
nothing
further
to
the
conventions
which
regulate
the
civic
life
.
He
allowed
himself
to
think
that
in
certain
circumstances
he
would
rob
his
hank
but
,
as
these
circumstances
never
arose
,
his
life
rolled
out
evenly
--
an
adventureless
tale
.
One
evening
he
found
himself
sitting
beside
two
ladies
in
the
Rotunda
.
The
house
,
thinly
peopled
and
silent
,
gave
distressing
prophecy
of
failure
.
The
lady
who
sat
next
him
looked
round
at
the
deserted
house
once
or
twice
and
then
said
:
"
What
a
pity
there
is
such
a
poor
house
tonight
!
It
's
so
hard
on
people
to
have
to
sing
to
empty
benches
.
"
He
took
the
remark
as
an
invitation
to
talk
.
He
was
surprised
that
she
seemed
so
little
awkward
.
While
they
talked
he
tried
to
fix
her
permanently
in
his
memory
.
When
he
learned
that
the
young
girl
beside
her
was
her
daughter
he
judged
her
to
be
a
year
or
so
younger
than
himself
.
Her
face
,
which
must
have
been
handsome
,
had
remained
intelligent
.
It
was
an
oval
face
with
strongly
marked
features
.
The
eyes
were
very
dark
blue
and
steady
.
Their
gaze
began
with
a
defiant
note
but
was
confused
by
what
seemed
a
deliberate
swoon
of
the
pupil
into
the
iris
,
revealing
for
an
instant
a
temperament
of
great
sensibility
.
The
pupil
reasserted
itself
quickly
,
this
half-disclosed
nature
fell
again
under
the
reign
of
prudence
,
and
her
astrakhan
jacket
,
moulding
a
bosom
of
a
certain
fullness
,
struck
the
note
of
defiance
more
definitely
.
He
met
her
again
a
few
weeks
afterwards
at
a
concert
in
Earlsfort
Terrace
and
seized
the
moments
when
her
daughter
's
attention
was
diverted
to
become
intimate
.
She
alluded
once
or
twice
to
her
husband
but
her
tone
was
not
such
as
to
make
the
allusion
a
warning
.
Her
name
was
Mrs.
Sinico
.
Her
husband
's
great-great-grandfather
had
come
from
Leghorn
.
Her
husband
was
captain
of
a
mercantile
boat
plying
between
Dublin
and
Holland
;
and
they
had
one
child
.
Meeting
her
a
third
time
by
accident
he
found
courage
to
make
an
appointment
.
She
came
.
This
was
the
first
of
many
meetings
;
they
met
always
in
the
evening
and
chose
the
most
quiet
quarters
for
their
walks
together
.
Mr.
Duffy
,
however
,
had
a
distaste
for
underhand
ways
and
,
finding
that
they
were
compelled
to
meet
stealthily
,
he
forced
her
to
ask
him
to
her
house
.
Captain
Sinico
encouraged
his
visits
,
thinking
that
his
daughter
's
hand
was
in
question
.
He
had
dismissed
his
wife
so
sincerely
from
his
gallery
of
pleasures
that
he
did
not
suspect
that
anyone
else
would
take
an
interest
in
her
.
As
the
husband
was
often
away
and
the
daughter
out
giving
music
lessons
Mr.
Duffy
had
many
opportunities
of
enjoying
the
lady
's
society
.
Neither
he
nor
she
had
had
any
such
adventure
before
and
neither
was
conscious
of
any
incongruity
.
Little
by
little
he
entangled
his
thoughts
with
hers
.
He
lent
her
books
,
provided
her
with
ideas
,
shared
his
intellectual
life
with
her
.
She
listened
to
all
.
