position for i should have to tell certain friends of mi to whom i recommended her that she was not all that imagined her to be but all s well that ends well i yon will be glad to hear that i have appointed her in my church it remains therefore only for to thank yon for your manly letter acknowledging mistake yon have made i can imagine the anxiety it must have caused y and the relief it must have been to yon to get letter although miss spoke with bitterness did not try to persuade me that you were naturally ha hearted or cruel the impression that her story on my mind was that your allusions to her in your i mon were your letter is proof tha was not mistaken and i am sure the lesson yoa h received will bear fruit i trust that you will use y influence to restrain other priests from similar it is only by gentleness and kindness that we can good i shall be glad to see you if you come london i am sir very sincerely yours michael o all s well that ends well so that s how he a different point of view and feeling that he betraying himself to he put both letters his pocket and went out of the house but he had gone many yards when he met a with a story to tell happily not a sick call only a dispute a land so he invented an excuse his inter tion until the morrow and when he returned home i with he stopped on his door step the ter is over now her letter is final he said awoke in a different mood next morning everything to him in a different lights and he wondered surprised to find that he could forget so easily and taking her letter out of his he read it again it s a hard letter but she s a wise woman much better for us both to forget each other good bye father she said good bye say i and he walked about his garden tending his flowers wondering at his light she thought of her own interests and would get on very well in london and father o had been lucky too was an excellent but if he went to london he would meet her a meeting could hardly be avoided � and after that letter perhaps it would be wiser if he didn t go to london what excuse o would write again he had been so kind in any case he must answer his letter and that was but was he obliged to answer it o wouldn t his silence but there had been enough and before he had walked the garden s length half a dozen reasons for writing occurred to him first of all father o s kindness in writing to ask him to stay with him added to which the fact that would of course tell father o she had been invited to teach in the her vanity would certainly urge her to do this and heaven only knows what account she would give of his proposal there would be his letter but she t show it so perhaps on the whole it would be better that he should write telling o what had happened and after his dinner as he sat thinking a letter came into his mind the first sentences themselves so suddenly that he was compelled to go to his writing table m f from father to father o oar � father o i a letter which i received three days i from miss and i think yon will agree n me that the letter is a harsh one and that all things e it would have been better if she had h self to saying that i had committed an error of which she forgave she did not however choose to this as regards my sister s invitation to her to co over here to teach she was of course quite right to o her own interests she can make more money london than she could in ireland i forgot that i couldn t bring her baby with her remembering only tl my eldest sister is mother in the g vent � a very superior woman if i may venture to my own sister the was very poor at one but she has made the school a success and hearing tl she wanted who would teach music and i proposed to her that the should engage miss with whose story she was already acquainted she did think that miss would return to ireland and this opinion she showed her good judgment she v always a wonderful judge of character but she see that i was anxious to for any wrong thai might have done miss and after some she consented saying well if you wish it miss did not accept the proposal and i si pose that the episode now ends so far as i am concern she has fallen into good hands she is making her thanks to your kindness but i dare not think might not have happened if she had not met you p when you have time you will write again i si be glad to hear if she in improving your my conscience is now at rest there is a term though it not be at the parish boundary when our responsibility ceases thanking yon again and hoping one of these days to have the pleasure of making your acquaintance i am very truly yours from father to father june � tt t father thank you for sending me miss s letter and i agree with you when you describe it as harsh but i understand it in a way miss came over to london almost and expecting the birth of her child she suffered all that a woman suffers in such circumstances i 