But I will be true to her all the same.

You may be sure that I shall not marry at all." Then he recurred to his old scheme.

"If I can find any mode of marrying her in some foreign country, so that her son and mine shall not be the legitimate heir to the title and estates, I would go there at once with her, though it were to the further end of the world.

You can understand now what I mean when I say that I do not know how to begin." Jack acknowledged that in that matter he did understand his brother.

It is always hard for a man to commence any new duty when he knows that he has a millstone round his neck which will probably make that duty impracticable at last.
He went on with his life at Scroope for a week after the funeral without resolving upon anything, or taking any steps towards solving the O'Hara difficulty.