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You are your own masther. Unsay what you have said to me, and her ears shall never be wounded or her heart broken by a hint of it." "I cannot make her Countess of Scroope. You are a priest, and can use what words you please to me; but I cannot make her Countess of Scroope." "Faith, and there will be more than words used, my young lord. As to your plot of a counterfeit marriage, "
Charles Scroope and I left Durban a day or two after my last conversation with Brother John. At Cape Town we caught the mail, a wretched little boat you would think it now, which after a long and wearisome journey at length landed us safe at Plymouth. Our companions on that voyage were very dull. I have forgotten most of them, but one lady I do remember.
But she could not bring herself to declare to him in plain terms that he had better marry Kate O'Hara, and bring his new Countess to Scroope in order that she might be fitly received by her predecessor. It might be that the Lord would still show him a way out of the two evils.
His brother's arguments were too strong for the young lord, and it was out of his power to deal with one so dogmatic. But he did not forget the last words that had been spoken. It may be that "I shall not be the man very long," he said at last. "Any of us may die to-day or to-morrow," said Jack. "I have a kind of presentiment, not that I shall die, but that I shall never see Scroope again.
The more prudent and orderly of mankind might hardly have understood why a young man, with prospects and present wealth such as belonged to Neville, should choose to spend a twelvemonth in such a room, contrary to the wishes of all his friends, when London was open to him, and the continent, and scores of the best appointed houses in England, and all the glories of ownership at Scroope.
Her eyes were red with weeping, and her face wan with care. "Fred," she said; "dear Fred." "Good-bye, aunt. The last word I have to say is that I implore you not to leave Scroope as long as you are comfortable here." "You will come back?" "I cannot say anything certain about that." She still had hold of him with both hands and was looking into his face with loving, frightened, wistful eyes.
"There should be no talking of all this before Kate," said Mrs. O'Hara. "That is true." "You can imagine what she must feel if she is told to doubt. Lord Scroope, will you not say at once that there shall be no doubt? You must not ruin my child in return for her love!" "If there must be ruin I would sooner bear it myself," said he.
Already he was beginning to hate the coast of Ireland, and to think that the gloom of Scroope Manor was preferable to it. For something over three weeks after his walk with the priest Neville saw neither of the two ladies of Ardkill. Letters were frequent between the cottage and the barracks at Ennis, but, so said Fred himself, military duties detained him with the troop.
Fred made some promise which at the moment he certainly intended to perform. On the next morning the will was read. There was nothing in it, nor could there have been anything in it, which might materially affect the interests of the heir. The late lord's widow was empowered to take away from Scroope anything that she desired.
The address was presented, the account produced, and the house, in a grand committee, took this affair into consideration. The courtiers affirmed that they fell short of the eight hundred thousand pounds settled upon his majesty; and Mr. Scroope proposed that the sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand pounds should be granted to the king, on account of those deficiencies and arrears.
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