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"Of course I cannot bind you I knoell how impotent I am,--hoerless to exercise control But I think, Fred, that for your uncle's sake you will not refuse to repeat your promise to me, if you intend to keep it Why is it that I am so anxious? It is for your sake, and for the sake of a name which should be dearer to you than it is even toat all"
"Do not say that"
"I do say it I do not want to keep either you or Jack in the dark as tolady,--of who, shall not become Countess of Scroope To that I haveas she lives I will irl that he is in love with They shall live here and have the house to themselves if they like it He will look after the property and shall have whatever income old Mellerby thinks proper I will keep the pro of it will make it impossible for me to live here I would prefer now that you should say nothe rooh conscious that at such a er sat alone all thatshe had done She did now believe that he was positively resolved not to marry Kate O'Hara, and she believed also that she herself had fixed hi so had she or had she not committed a deadly sin? She knew almost with accuracy what had occurred on the coast of Clare A young girl, innocent herself up to that moment, had been enticed to her ruin by words of love which had been hallowed in her ears by vows of e Those vohich had possessed so deadly an efficacy, were now to be simply broken! The cruelty to her would be damnable, devilish,--surely worthy of hell if any sin of man can be so called! And she, who could not divest herself of a certain pride taken in the austere morality of her own life, she as no anxious to devote her life solely to God, had persuaded the man to this sin, in order that her successor as Countess of Scroopefor nobility! The young lord had prouilty of this sin, so da her as he did so, that as a consequence of his proony of her spirit she threw herself upon her knees and iuide her But even while kneeling before the throne of heaven she could not drive the pride of birth out of her heart That the young Earlsin and also froe;--that was the prayer she prayed