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Itman was a ravenous wolf, but his manners were not wolfish Had Mrs O'Hara been a princess, supre Neville could not have treated her or her daughter with more respect At first Kate had wondered at him, but had said but little She had listened to him, as he talked to her mother and the priest about the cliffs and the birds and the seals he had shot, and she had felt that it was this, so like this, that was needed to , no thought, for eternity It was not that all at once she loved hi to love His very appearance on the cliff, and the power of thinking of hione, for a while banished all tediuulls?" That was the first question she asked him; and she asked it hardly in tenderness to the birds, but because with the unconscious cunning of her sex she understood that tenderness in a woman is a charm in the eyes of a et at them," said Fred "I believe there is no other reason,--except that one "

"But why uns Aas a matter of course It's a kind of institution There ain't any tigers, and so we shoot birds And in this part of the world there ain't any pheasants, and so we shoot sea-gulls"

"Excellently argued," said the priest

"Or rather one don't, for it's iet at them But I'll tell you what, Father Marty,"--Neville had already assu the priest by his faers doto the country,--"I'll tell you what, Father Marty,--I've shot one of the finest seals I ever saw, and if Morony can get him at loater, I'll send the skin up to Mrs O'Hara"

"And send the oil toa seal But you can do nothing with those birds,--unless you get enough of their feathers to make a bed"

This was in October, and before the end of Novee He had never broken bread at Mrs O'Hara's table; nor, to tell the truth, had any outspoken, clearly intelligible word of love been uttered by hih, and the story had become sufficiently current at Liscannor toher bad news to her friend Lady Scroope This she did not do till Fred had been induced, with soht at Castle Quin Lady Mary had not scrupled to ask a question about Miss O'Hara, and had thought the answer very unsatisfactory "I don't knohat ht you would have known that," replied Neville, in answer to her question