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"You must not joke with me now If you knehat it was to have one child and only that you would not joke with "

"And what is to be the end of it?"

"The end of it! How can I say? My uncle is an old ood, very prejudiced, and broken-hearted because his own son, who died, ainst his will"

"You would not liken my Kate to such as that woman was?"

"Your Kate! She is ht as that would be an injury to me as deep as to you You know that to ood as she is bright and beautiful As God is above us she shall be my wife,--but I cannot take her to Scroope Manor as my hile my uncle lives"

"Why should any one be ashamed of her at Scroope Manor?"

"Because they are fools But I cannot cure them of their folly My uncle thinks that I should entleman, I presume, and she is a lady"

"That is very true;--so true that I myself shall act upon the truth But I will not make his last years wretched He is a Protestant, and you are Catholics"

"What is that? Are not ever so many of your lords Catholics? Were they not all Catholics before Protestants were ever thought of?"

"Mrs O'Hara, I have told you that to h she were a Princess And I have told you that she shall be my wife If that does not content you, I cannot help it It contents her I owe "

"But I oweby quarrelling withinto his face the while with soaze that his eyes quailed beneath it "By the living God," she said, "if you injure my child I will have the very blood from your heart"

Nevertheless she allowed him to return alone to the house, where she knew that he would find her girl "Kate," he said, going into the parlour in which she was sitting idle at the ,--"dear Kate"

"Well, sir?"

"I'm off"

"You are always--off, as you call it"