Her mother was married, she believed, during the short time
she was in Ireland; and she was born, she knew, in the parish where her
father's parents lived, to whose care her father had confided her
mother. Two children had been born, and died before her birth, during
the period that her parents were abroad.
It may be as well to say here, that the certificates were duly procured,
through the clergyman of the parish, to whom Mr Jones wrote a statement
of the case. Also that letters, written for the gratification of Gladys,
to the Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy of her parent's last
neighbourhood were duly answered, and confirmed all that Gladys had said
of them and of herself from first to last. This, of course, took some
time to effect; but I have so far anticipated the event, to avoid
fanning to it again.
Gladys now recapitulated, more minutely, the circumstances of her early
history, a sketch of which she gave Miss Gwynne and Mrs Prothero when
she was recovering from her fever.
There were a few points that she did not mention at that time, which, we
will insert for the benefit of the reader, in Gladys' own words.
'My father left my mother in Ireland, and went with his regiment to
India. My mother lived with my grandfather, who was old and infirm, but
still managed a small farm, in which my mother assisted.
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