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Mooney was delighted with this epistle, and said, 

 ' How sorry he should have been for Nell's death if he 

 had been at home, but that travelling weakened a man's 

 infections' ' I think so too,' said Brian, ' and remember, 

 Mooney, I write to Judy the first thing to-morrow 

 morning, for I am really ashamed of my neglect.' 



END OF CHAPTER VIII. 



