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"You will not dare to tell me that youover to Ardkill this very day The trap is ordered I hope Kate is well?"

"She is not well How should she be well?"

"Why not? I didn't know If there is anything that she wants that I can get for her, you have only to speak"

In the utter conteot that his immediate situation was one in which it was nearly inity Having brought himself to his present pass by ood conduct now open to hie be what it ht to marry her; but he was stopped frohest duty required hiradation And yet to a mother, with such a demand on her lips as that now made by Mrs O'Hara,--whose demand was backed by such circumstances,--hoas it possible that he should tell the truth and plead the honour of his faer possible to hiainthat you ht of When shall she becoue to tell her that it could not be so while his uncle lived;--but to this he at once felt that there were two objections, directly opposed to each other, but each so strong as to erous It would imply a pro the girl when his uncle should be dead; and, although pro so overnable wrath of the woman before him That he should now hesitate,--now, in her Kate's present condition,--as to redeee which he had made to her in her innocence, would raise a fury in the ot up and walked about the room, while she stood with her eyes fixed upon hi her demand "No day must now be lost When will you make my child your wife?"

At last he s which she had brought him had come upon him very suddenly He was inexpressibly pained Of course Kate, his dearest Kate, was everything to him Let him have that afternoon to think about it On the morroould assuredly visit Ardkill Thethat should he atteirl false and escape from her she would follow hi that at the present moment she could not constrain hi day; and at last left him to himself