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"Likely enough, Father Marty"

"In course you will Sorrow a doubt of that" Then the priest paused

"And why shouldn't I?" asked Neville

"I' that you shouldn't, Mr Neville It wouldn't be civil nor yet nathural after knowing the there was a rason for your staying away, and that'd be worse than all But, Mr Neville--"

"Out with it, Father Marty" Fred kneas coood deal upon the matter

"Them two ladies, Mr Neville, live up there all alone, with sorrow a hu myself"

"Why should they want protection?"

"Just because they're lone wo and very beautiful"

"They are both beautiful," said Neville

"'Deed and they are,--both of 'em The mother can look afther herself, and after a fashion, too, she can look afther her daughter I shouldn't like to be the man to come in her hen he'd once decaived her child You're a young man, Mr Neville"

"That's h in the world They tell reat lord sohing

"Anyways you'll be a richhere in this out of the way parish, a lord doesn't ers "The only lord that matters me is me bishop But with theoes a long way It has been so since the world began In riding a race against you they carry weight fros with it"

"Why should they ride a race against ainst the as isn't yet out of her teens?"

"God forbid that I should injure her"

"I don't think that you're the man to do it with your eyes open, Mr Neville If you can't spake her fair in the way ofher your wife, don't spake her fair at all That's the long and the short of it, Mr Neville You see what they are They're ladies, if there is a lady living in the Queen's do is as beautiful as Habe, as innocent as a sleeping child, as soft as wax to take iainst such a one as you?"