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No attempt at escape was made The Earl breakfasted by hiar, roa of the work that was now before hih he knew that the priest was still in Ennistiht have saved themselves that trouble, for he certainly had no intention of breaking his word to the as he did so, that people such as these could not understand that an Earl of Scroope would not be untrue to his word And yet since he had been back in County Clare he had alretted that he had not broken his faith to theland At half-past ten he started on a car, having proe at noon, and he told his servant that he should certainly leave Ennisti were to be ready for hio through Liscannor, but took the other road to the burial ground There he left his car and sloalked along the cliffs till he ca this he went somewhat out of his way, but he had tie before the hour he had named It was a hot midsummer day, and there seemed to be hardly a ripple on the waves The tide was full in, and he sat for a while looking down upon the blue waters What an ass had he an to see now theof such idleness of purpose as that to which he had looked for pleasure and excitement Even the ocean itself and the very rocks had lost their charht, the sky above and the water below, in which there was neither beauty nor variety How poor had been the life he had chosen! He had spent hour after hour in a conorant creature, in order that he ht shoot a few birds and possibly a seal All the world had been open to him, and yet how miserable had been his ambition! And now he could see no way out of the ruin he had brought upon himself

When the time had coe At the corner of the little patch of garden ground attached to it he ht shaas on her shoulders as though she had prepared herself for walking He immediately asked after Kate She told him that Kate ithin and should see hio up on the cliffs together, and then say whatof their purposes? "There should be no talking of all this before Kate," said Mrs O'Hara