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But when he spoke of the day of his departure as fixed,--as being "the day after to-morrow,"--then he knew that the question o," said the Earl

"You see a man can't leave the service at a ot over that, Fred"

"Perhaps as regards the service we is depend on a sters mayn't have their money ready I said I should remain till October"

"I don't at all wish to act the tyrant to you"

"I know that, uncle"

Then there was a pause "I haven't spoken to you yet, Fred, on a reat deal of uneasiness When you first cah to allude to it, and I left it to your aunt" Neville knehat was co now, and are that he was moved in a manner that hardly becaot into so lady in the west of Ireland"

"No trouble, uncle, I hope"

"Who is she?"

Then there was another pause, but he gave a direct answer to the question "She is a Miss O'Hara"

"A Roirl of whose fa?"

"I know that she lives with her mother"

"In absolute obscurity,--and poverty?"