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Jones, Mary Flood

The young Irish girl whom Phineas Finn married, and who died in childbirth.

"...a little girl about twenty years of age, with the softest hair in the world, of a colour varying between brown and auburn ... and she was as pretty as ever she could be. She was one of those girls, so common in Ireland, whom men with tastes that way given, feel inclined to take up and devour on the spur of the moment; and when she liked her lion, she had a look about her which seemed to ask to he devoured - . -"