I believe a man needn't be a lord unless he likes to be a lord;--and needn't call his wife a countess.

But, Mr.Neville, when you have married Miss O'Hara, and when your uncle shall have died, there can be no other Countess of Scroope, and her child must be the heir to your uncle's title." "All that I could give her except that, she should have." "But she must have that.

She must be your wife before God and man, and her children must be the children of honour and not of disgrace." Ah,--if the priest had known it all! "I would live abroad with her, and her mother should live with us." "You mean that you would take Kate O'Hara as your misthress! And you make this as a proposal to me! Upon my word, Mr.Neville, I don't think that I quite understand what it is that you're maning to say to me.

Is she to be your wife ?" "Yes," said Neville, urged by the perturbation of his spirit to give a stronger assurance than he had intended.
"Then must her son if she have one be the future Earl of Scroope.

He may be Protesthant,--or what you will ?" "You don't understand me, Father Marty." "Faith, and that's thrue.