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But within her own bosom there had been dreadful conflicts as to that duty Lady Mary Quin had by no means slackened her activity Lady Mary Quin had learned the exact condition of Kate O'Hara, and had sent the news to her friend with greedy rapidity And in sending it Lady Mary Quin entertained no slightest doubt as to the duty of the present Earl of Scroope According to her thinking it could not be the duty of an Earl of Scroope in any circuard to such troubles as now existed at Ardkill cottage, always think that the woman should be punished as the sinner and that the man should be assisted to escape The hardness of heart of such women,--who in all other views of life are perhaps tender and soft-natured,--is one of the h a certain line were drawn to include all women,--a line, but, alas, littleknown to have overstepped it, a woman ceases to be a woman in the esti has strong effect in saving woeneral tendency ood rather than evil, is possible But the hardness necessary to preserve the rule, a hardness which , is a marvellous feature in the feht but little on the subject The woe on the cliff, ere befriended by Father Marty, were to her dangerous sche Roman Catholic adventurers The proper triumph of Protestant virtue required that they should fail in their adventures She had always known that there would be so disreputable heard of them sooner or later When the wretched Captain ca,--she was gratified by feeling that her convictions had been correct When the sad tidings as to poor Kate reached her ears, she had "known that it would be so" That such a girl should be made Countess of Scroope in reward for her wickedness would be to her an event horrible, almost contrary to Divine Providence,--a testi allowed peculiar power at the moment, and would no doubt have been used in her own circles to show the ruin that had been brought upon the country by Catholic emancipation She did not for a ed to break any proht have been allured