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"I'm in earnest now, Father Marty What shall we do if our darling Kate thinks of this young ood for her?" Father Marty raised his hat and began to scratch his head "If you like to look at the fair face of a handsome lad--"

"I do thin, Misthress O'Hara"

"Must not she like it also?"

"I'll go bail she likes it," said the priest

"And ill come next?"

"I'll tell you what it is, Misthress O'Hara Would you want to keep her fro a man at all?"

"God forbid"

"It's not the way to make them happy, nor yet safe If it's to be that id her, she'd better be a nun all out; and I'd be far fro that to your Kate"

"She is hardly fit for so holy a life"

"And why should she? I niver like seeing toothat way, and them that are prittiest are the last I'd send there But if not a nun, it stands to reason she must take chance with the rest of 'em She's been too much shut up already Let her keep her heart till he asks her for it; but if he does ask her, why shouldn't she be his wife? Howofficers take Irish wives home with 'em every year Only for them, our beauties wouldn't have a chance"