He would break his heart were he to lose his Kate.

When he looked at it in that light it seemed to him that Kate was more to him than all the family of the Scroopes with all their glory.

Dear, sweet, soft, innocent, beautiful Kate! His Kate who, as he knew well, worshipped the very ground on which he trod! It was not possible that he should separate himself from Kate O'Hara.
On his return to Ireland he turned that scheme of his over and over again in his head.

Surely something might be done if the priest would stand his friend! What if he were to tell the whole truth to the priest, and ask for such assistance as a priest might give him?
But the one assurance to which he came during his journey was this;--that when a man goes in for adventures, he requires a good deal of skill and some courage too to carry him through them.
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