That I suppose was right, but why have you not written to us before this?
Why have you not told my poor girl that you will come to her, and atone to her for the injury you have done in the only manner now possible?
I cannot and do not believe that you intend to evade the solemn promises that you have made her, and allow her to remain here a ruined outcast, and the mother of your child.

I have thought you to be both a gentleman and a christian, and I still think so.

Most assuredly you would be neither were you disposed to leave her desolate, while you are in prosperity.
I call upon you, my lord, in the most solemn manner, with all the energy and anxiety of a mother,--of one who will be of all women the most broken-hearted if you wrong her,--to write at once and let me know when you will be here to keep your promise.
For the sake of your own offspring I implore you not to delay.
We feel under deep obligations to you for what you did in respect of that unhappy man.

We have never for a moment doubted your generosity.
Yours, My Lord, With warmest affection, if you will admit it, C.O'HARA.
P.S.I ask you to come at once and keep your word.

Were you to think of breaking it, I would follow you through the world.
The young Earl, when he received this, was not at a loss for a moment to attribute the body of Mrs.O'Hara's letter to Father Marty's power of composition, and the postscript to the unaided effort of the lady herself.