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"No"

"And, oh, Fred, as you value your own soul, do not injure a poor girl so desolate as that Tell her and tell her mother the honest truth If there be tears, will not that be better than sorrow, and disgrace, and ruin?" Aht that a broken pro which his nephew had subjected himself

And so the intervieas over, and there had been no quarrel Fred Neville had given the Earl a positive promise that he would not marry Kate O'Hara,--to whom he had sworn a thousand times that she should be his wife Such a promise, however,--so he told himself--is never intended to prevail beyond the lifetime of the person to whom it is made He had bound himself not to marry Kate O'Hara while his uncle lived, and that was all

Or ether and tell the truth,--not to Kate, for that he could not do,--but to Mrs O'Hara or to Father Marty? As he thought of this he acknowledged to hi such a truth to Mrs O'Hara would be alth Could he not throw himself upon the priest's charity, and leave it all to hienuine love told hiirl in such fashion as that He would break his heart were he to lose his Kate When he looked at it in that light it seemed to him that Kate was more to hilory Dear, sweet, soft, innocent, beautiful Kate! His Kate who, as he kneell, worshipped the very ground on which he trod! It was not possible that he should separate himself from Kate O'Hara

On his return to Ireland he turned that sche ht be done if the priest would stand his friend! What if he were to tell the whole truth to the priest, and ask for such assistance as a priesthis journey was this;--that when a ood deal of skill and soh them