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The Reading Club.

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Calmly at ease and settled, Mrs.
Throp sits with her knitting.

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An ornamental
oriental spinning top,

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a hanging parchment with an
incandescent heart, casts her

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almost in marble silhouette.

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Her careful fingers working
by themselves apart,

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she captures to a comfortable
degree, that amiable stupor

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natural to a lack of wit.

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The ladies are
preparing to digest

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the heart of Irish literature,
but stop at its periphery

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the skin being tough, and
pause in their uncharted quest

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upon the Irish Sea
for cups of tea,

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and some assorted biscuits
for a sop to hollowness.

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And guilefully,
Mrs. Throp,

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who has not read
the assignment, says

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that she wonders if so much
Irish history is after all

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the best that they can do, and
suggests a popular biography.

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She looks for their
approval with a smile,

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and sighting rescue from that
ambivalent isle, the marooned

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but valiant ladies all agree.

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[LAUGHTER]

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