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Excerpt from The Woman Who Never Did Wrong, and Other Stories
Truly, she had many claims, ancestral and personal, on local Catholic gratitude. Her grandfather had given the site of St. Joseph's, now one of the most valuable properties in the town, together with a generous offering to the building fund. At the dedication of the church, her father's gift was the High Altar, and two memorial Windows; and on her parents' death, Miss Tallon and her brothers and sisters, all married but herself, had given a beautiful mar ble Altar, in keeping with their father's earlier gift, to the Lady Chapel. In wealth and respectability, the Tallons had long been the foremost Catholics in Brucetown. Miss Tallon, as the eldest and most masterful, held life-tenure of the family residence, a few blocks from St. Joseph's, where her aged uncle and two maids growing grey in the service of the house, abode with her. She was nearing her fortieth year in single blessedness, and ably keeping up the family tra dition of generosity to religion; adding there unto new forms of social service, not only among the familiar poor, but among the ofttimes needy foreigners drawn so numerously to Bruce town in recent years by the big wicker furniture manufactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
