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"All that I could give her except that, she should have"

"But she must have that She must be your wife before God and man, and her children race" Ah,--if the priest had known it all!

"I would live abroad with her, and her mother should live with us"

"You mean that you would take Kate O'Hara as your misthress! And you make this as a proposal to me! Upon my word, Mr Neville, I don't think that I quite understand what it is that you'reto say to ed by the perturbation of his spirit to give a stronger assurance than he had intended

"Then must her son if she have one be the future Earl of Scroope He may be Protesthant,--or what you will?"

"You don't understand me, Father Marty"

"Faith, and that's thrue But we are at the baich, Mr Neville, and I've twothe coast to Liscannor"

"Shall I make Barney take you round in the canoe?"

"I believe I lad at any rate to hear you say so distinctly that you are resolved at all hazards to irl your wife" This he said, al close to the boat, with his hand on Neville's shoulder He paused a th to his words, and Neville did not dare or was not able to protest against the assertion Father Marty hi such an affair as this in which they were now both concerned

Neville went back to Ennisthe matter over in his mind almost hopelessly This hat had coirl,--postponing his ht he knew as yet that race his fa the solemn promise he had made And in such case he would be encumbered, and possibly be put beyond the pale of that sort of life which should be his as Earl of Scroope, by having Captain O'Hara as his father-in-law He are now that he would be held by all his natural friends to have ruined hie

On the other hand he could, no doubt, throw the girl over They could not h they could probablyso If he could only harden his heart sufficiently he could escape in that way But he was not hard, and he did feel that so escaping, he would have a load on his breast which wouldto hate the coast of Ireland, and to think that the gloom of Scroope Manor was preferable to it