Now you can take her, yourself, and me, out of all our difficulties, if you have only sense enough to shove over from the old P---- to the young P----.

As a Protestant, you can marry Helen, Reilly--but as a Papist, never! and you know the rest; for if you are obstinate, and blind to your own interests, I must do my duty." "Will you allow me to ask, sir, whether Miss Folliard is aware of this mission of yours to me ?" "She aware! She never dreamt of it; but I have promised to tell her the result after dinner to-day." "Well, sir," replied Reilly, "will you allow me to state to you a few facts ?" "Certainly; go on." "In the first place, then, such is your daughter's high and exquisite sense of integrity and honor that, if I consented to the terms you propose, she would reject me with indignation and scorn, as she ought to do.

There, then, is your project for accomplishing my selfish and dishonest apostacy given to the winds.

Your daughter, sir, is too pure in all her moral feelings, and too noble-minded, to take to her arms a renegade husband--a renegade, too, not from conviction, but from selfish and mercenary purposes." "Confound the thing, this is but splitting hairs, Reilly, and talking big for effect.

Speak, however, for yourself; as for Helen, I know very well that, in spite of your heroics and her's, she'd be devilish glad you'd become a Protestant and marry her." "I am sorry to say, sir, that you don't know your own daughter; but as for me, Mr.Folliard, if one word of your's, or of her's, could place me on the British throne, I would not abandon my religion.