1 At last she heard her mother calling.
2 She would not be treated as her mother had been.
3 Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive.
4 The child, hearing its mother's voice, broke out into a paroxysm of sobbing.
5 She remembered her father putting on her mother's bonnet to make the children laugh.
6 Another day, when their mother was alive, they had all gone for a picnic to the Hill of Howth.
7 To begin with she had all the weight of social opinion on her side: she was an outraged mother.
8 That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up; her mother was dead.
9 Miss Mary Sinico said that of late her mother had been in the habit of going out at night to buy spirits.
10 Polly knew that she was being watched, but still her mother's persistent silence could not be misunderstood.
11 First of all there was her disreputable father and then her mother's boarding house was beginning to get a certain fame.
12 She told him all, that she had made a clean breast of it to her mother and that her mother would speak with him that morning.
13 Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could.
14 She remembered the last night of her mother's illness; she was again in the close dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy.
15 There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.
16 When they were growing up he had never gone for her like he used to go for Harry and Ernest, because she was a girl; but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother's sake.
17 She had been made awkward by her not wishing to receive the news in too cavalier a fashion or to seem to have connived and Polly had been made awkward not merely because allusions of that kind always made her awkward but also because she did not wish it to be thought that in her wise innocence she had divined the intention behind her mother's tolerance.
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