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It was all going from bad to worse He was allowed by the irl was allowed to wander with hih Father Marty himself had more than once cautioned Mrs O'Hara that she was imprudent "What can I do?" she said "Have not you yourself taught me to believe that he is true?"

"Just spake a word to Miss Kate herself"

"What can I say to her now? She regards him as her husband before God"

"But he is not her husband in any way that would prevent his taking another wife an' he plases And, believe irl a dale better when there's a little 'Stand off' about her"

"It is too late to bid her to be indifferent to hi that Miss Kate is to lose her lover I hope I'll have the binding of 'eh In the meanwhile let her keep herself to herself a little ood, but Mrs O'Hara knew not how toman that she would have his heart's blood if he deceived theood as her word She had courage enough for any great eency But now that the lover had been e she knew not how to debar hi doubts to her And were he to be told to stay aould he not be lost to them for ever? Of course he could desert the from bad to worse certainly; and not the less so because he was irl When he had calculated whether it ht be possible to desert her he had been at Scroope He was in County Clare now, and he did not hesitate to tell hiht happen, and to whoht be false,--he would be true to her He would at any rate be so true to her that he would not leave her If he never al at all points, he would always treat her as wife When his uncle the Earl should die, when the time came in which he would be absolutely free as to his own ht best be done If it were true that his Kate's father was a convict escaped froalleys, that surely would be an additional reason why she should not be made Countess of Scroope Even Mrs O'Hara herself ht that there would be no difficulty