3/20 I can tell you that, Mr.Neville." "I suppose not." "That lass up there was not born when I saw him. He was a handsome man too, and might have been a gentleman av' he would." "But he wasn't." "It's a hard thing to say what is a gentleman, Mr.Neville.I don't know a much harder thing. Them folk at Castle Quin, now, wouldn't scruple to say that I'm no gentleman, just because I'm a Popish priest. I say that Captain O'Hara was no gentleman because--he ill-treated a woman." Father Marty as he said this stopped a moment on the road, turning round and looking Neville full in the face. Fred bore the look fairly well. |