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Up to the cottage indeed there could hardly be said to be e noout froround, but froe if needed, round was hard and the as open But no wheels ever travelled there now The priest, when he would come, came on horseback, and there was a shed in which he could tie up his nag He himself fro's use, and would think himself cruelly used because the coould find her way in and eat it No other horse ever called at the 's door What slender stores were needed for her use, were all brought on the girls' backs fro the cliff, there was no road for miles, nor was there house or habitation Castle Quin, in which the noble but sohout the year, was distant, inland, about three e Lady Mary had said in her letter to her friend that Mrs O'Hara was a lady;--and as Mrs O'Hara had no other neighbour, ranking with herself in that respect, so near her, and none other but the Protestant clergyman's ithin six ht have induced some of the Quin family to notice her But the Quins were Protestant, and Mrs O'Hara was not only a Roht into the parish by the priest No evil certainly was known of her, but then nothing was known of her; and the Quins were a very cautious people where religion was called in question In the days of the famine Father Marty and the Earl and the Protestant vicar had worked together in the good cause;--but those days were now gone by, and the strange intimacy had soon died away The Earl when he ymen would bow to each other;--but beyond such dumb salutation there was no intercourse between them It had been held therefore to be impossible to take any notice of the priest's friends

And what notice could have been taken of two ladies who came from nobody knehere, to live in that wild out-of-the-way place, nobody knehy? They called thehter, and they called themselves O'Haras;--but there was no evidence of the truth even of these assertions They were left therefore in their solitude, and never saw the face of a friend across their door step except that of Father Marty