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Neville sat in his roo, for a couple of hours after Mrs O'Hara had left him In ay should he escape from the misery and ruin which seemed to surround him? An idea did cross his mind that it would be better for him to fly and write the truth from the comparatively safe distance of his London club But there would be a meanness in such conduct which would ain hold up his head The girl had trusted to hiht herself to this miserable pass He could not desert her It would be better that he should go and endure all the vials of their wrath than that To her he would still be tenderly loving, if she would accept his love without the naive her His whole life he would sacrifice to her Every luxury which o and make his offer The vials of wrath which would doubtless be poured out upon his head would not come from her In his heart of hearts he feared both the priest and the mother But there are ed to encounter all that he most fears;--and the man who does not do so in such moments is a coward

He quite ; but the intermediate hours were very sad and heavy, and his whole outlook into life was troublesome to him How infinitely better would it have been for hiht a twelveive up the army at once! But he had made his bed, and now he must lie upon it There was no escape froh he should be stunned by their wrath he ot into his gig before nine He must face the enemy, and the earlier that he did it the better His difficulty now lay in arranging the proposition that he would make and the words that he should speak Every difficulty would be ser dispelled if he would only say that he would al forms would allow Father Marty, he kneould see to all that, and the ht be done effectually He had quite come to understand that Father Marty was practical rather than romantic But there would be cowardice in this as mean as that other cowardice He believed himself to be bound by his duty to his fae, such reneould be caused by fear and not by duty, and would be et froht of the Captain, and perceived that he must make all possible use of the Captain's character Would anybody conceive that he, the heir of the Scroope fahter of a convict returned froalleys? And was it not true that such promise as he had made had been obtained under false pretences? Why had he not been told of the Captain's position when he first hter?