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When he caate was open, and he knew that somebody was there besides the usual inmates His heart at once told hiht him face to face with his two enemies at once! His breath almost left hiht be the vials of wrath he must encounter them So he knocked at the outer door and, after his custoain at the door of the one sitting-room,--the door which hitherto he had always passed with the conviction that he should bring delight,--and for a moain The door was opened for him, and as he entered he met Father Marty But he at once saw that there was another man in the room, seated in an arm chair near theKate, his Kate, was not there, but Mrs O'Hara was standing at the head of the sofa, far away from theand close to the door "It is Mr Neville," said the priest "It is as well that he should co from his chair, "I ahter Your prospects in life are sufficient, sir, and I givehorrible to look at, tall, thin, cadaverous, ill-clothed, with his wretched and all but ragged overcoat buttoned close up to his chin, with long straggling thin grizzled hair, red-nosed, with a drunkard's eyes, and thin lips dran at the corners of the mouth This was Captain O'Hara; and if any man ever looked like a convict returned from work in chains, such was the appearance of this man This was the father of Fred's Kate;--the man whom it was expected that he, Frederic Neville, the future Earl of Scroope, should take as his father-in-law! "This is Captain O'Hara," said the priest But even Father Marty, bold as he was, could not assume the voice hich he had rebuked Neville as he walked with hio, down to the beach

Neville did feel that the abothened his position He stood looking from one to another, while Mrs O'Hara remained silent in the corner "Perhaps," said he, "I had better not be here I aht that you should know it all," said the priest "As regards the young lady it cannot now alter your position This gentleed for"