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She closed the door carefully behind her before she spoke, excluding the military servant who had wished to bar her entrance "Yes, sir; as you would not come to us I have been forced to come to you I know it all When will you make my child your wife?"

Yes In the abjectness of her race; or, rather, in her weakness had suffered her secret to fall from her lips That terrible retribution was to come upon her which, when sin has been ht upon her who of the two sinners has ever been by far the less sinful She, when she knew her dooer ties of love to him who had so cruelly injured her She was his before; but now she was ive her orders that she ht obey them, was the consolation that she coveted,--the only consolation that could have availed anything to her To lean against him, and to whisper to him, with face averted, with half-forht convey to hiht be al that could restore hope to her bosoht hide her face upon his breast But he cah, as best she kne, she had thrown all her heart into her letters Then her spirit sank within her, and she sickened, and as her mother knelt over her, she allowed her secret to fall fro-room at Ennis was not a chah, as are usually barrack roo quarters in small towns in the west of Ireland,--and it was also very untidy The ht hardly have understood why a young ed to Neville, should choose to spend a twelvemonth in such a room, contrary to the wishes of all his friends, when London was open to him, and the continent, and scores of the best appointed houses in England, and all the glories of ownership at Scroope There were guns about, and whips, hardly half a dozen books, and a few papers There were a couple of swords lying on a table that looked like a dresser The rooh there were three large easy chairs, even they were torn and soiled But all this had been compatible with adventures,--and while the adventures were simply romantic and not a bit troublesome, the barracks at Ennis had been to hirandeur of Scroope