is extraordinary he said to himself how a desire of immortality these a desire of immortality he said fearing he had been guilty of a if i could have the whole window to myself i would give you fifty pounds your reverence the priest had no idea she had saved as much money as that the have been very good to me your reverence and i d like to put up the window in the new church better than in the old church but i ve got no money my good woman to build the church ah won t your reverence go to america and get the money aren t all our own people over there and always giving money for churches i the priest spoke to her about statues and suggested that perhaps a statue would be a more permanent gift but the old woman knew that stained glass could be secured from by means of wire do you know it will require three or four thousand pounds to build a new church if i go to america and do my best to get the money how much will you help me with does your reverence mean for the window no i was thinking of the church itself and said that she would give him five pounds to help to build the church and fifty pounds for her window and she added if the best and paint costs a little more i would be sorry to see the church short well you say you will give five pounds � towards the church now let ns think how much money i could get in this parish he had a taste for gossip and she began by telling him she had met on the road and had told her that there had been great dancing last night but there was no said the priest i only know your reverence what told me there had been great dancing last night the supper was ordered at michael s and the cars were ordered and they went to and back but michael would not dare to serve supper to people who weren t married said the priest the supper had been ordered and they would have to pay for it whether they ate it or not there was a pig s head and the cake cost eighteen shillings and it was never mind the food said the priest tell me what happened said that after coming back from michael said is this the wedding party i and that ned jumped off the car and said to be sure ain t i the wedded man and they had half a barrel of never mind the drink said the priest what then there was dancing first and fighting after pat and peter m were both there you know pat plays the and he asked peter to sing and peter can t sing a bit and he was laughed at so he a bit of stick and hit pat on the head and hit him badly too i hear the doctor had to be sent for that is always the end of their dancing and drinking said the priest and what happened then what happened after that they went home yes your reverence they went home mary went with her own people i suppose and ned went back to his home i don t know your reverence what they did well what else did tell you she had just left her brother and mary and they were going towards the peak that is what told me when i met her on the road mary wouldn t go to live with a man to whom she was not married but you told me that said she had just left mary and her brother yes they were just coming out of the cabin said she passed them on the road out of whose cabin said the priest out of ned s cabin i know it must have been out of ned s cabin because she said she met them at the cross roads he questioned the old woman but she grew less and less explicit i don t like to think this of mary but after so much dancing drinking it is impossible to say what t have happened i suppose they forgot your reverence didn t marry them forgot said the priest a sin has been committed and through my fault they will come to your reverence to morrow when they are feeling a little better the priest did not answer and said am i to take away my money or will your reverence keep it for the window the church is tumbling down and before it is built up you want me to put up statues i d like a window better i ve got other things to think of now your reverence is very busy if i had known it i wouldn t have come disturbing you but i ll take my money with me yes take your money he said oo home quietly and say nothing about what you have told me i must think over what is best to be done hurried away gathering her shawl about her and this great strong man who had taken pat by the collar and could have thrown him out of the fell on his knees and prayed that ood might forgive him the and anger that had caused him to refuse to marry ned and mary oh my god oh my god he said thou that it was not for myself that i wanted the money it was to build up thine own house he remembered that his uncle had warned him again and again against the sin of anger he had thought lightly of his uncle s counsels and he had not practised the virtue of humility which as st said was the virtue to seek in this treacherous world oh my god give me strength 