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"
I
suppose
not
.
However
,
it
does
n't
take
much
more
than
very
ordinary
powers
of
observation
to
see
when
the
various
members
of
my
parish
are
troubled
,
or
in
pain
.
And
having
seen
,
it
is
my
duty
to
do
what
I
can
to
help
.
"
"
You
're
very
well
liked
in
Gilly
,
Father
.
"
"
For
which
no
doubt
I
may
thank
my
face
and
my
figure
,
"
said
the
priest
bitterly
,
unable
to
make
it
sound
as
light
as
he
had
intended
.
"
Is
that
what
you
think
?
I
ca
n't
agree
,
Father
.
We
like
you
because
you
're
a
good
pastor
.
"
"
Well
,
I
seem
to
be
thoroughly
embroiled
in
your
troubles
,
at
any
rate
,
"
said
Father
Ralph
uncomfortably
.
"
You
'd
best
get
it
off
your
chest
,
man
.
"
Paddy
stared
into
the
fire
,
which
he
had
built
up
to
the
proportions
of
a
furnace
while
the
priest
was
putting
Meggie
to
bed
,
in
an
excess
of
remorse
and
frantic
to
be
doing
something
.
The
empty
glass
in
his
hand
shook
in
a
series
of
rapid
jerks
;
Father
Ralph
got
up
for
the
whiskey
bottle
and
replenished
it
.
After
a
long
draft
Paddy
sighed
,
wiping
the
forgotten
tears
from
his
face
.
"
I
do
n't
know
who
Frank
's
father
is
.
It
happened
before
I
met
Fee
.
Her
people
are
practically
New
Zealand
's
first
family
socially
,
and
her
father
had
a
big
wheat-and-sheep
property
outside
Ashburton
in
the
South
Island
.
Money
was
no
object
,
and
Fee
was
his
only
daughter
.
As
I
understand
it
,
he
'd
planned
her
life
for
her
--
a
trip
to
the
old
country
,
a
debut
at
court
,
the
right
husband
.
She
had
never
lifted
a
hand
in
the
house
,
of
course
.
They
had
maids
and
butlers
and
horses
and
big
carriages
;
they
lived
like
lords
.
"
I
was
the
dairy
hand
,
and
sometimes
I
used
to
see
Fee
in
the
distance
,
walking
with
a
little
boy
about
eighteen
months
old
.
The
next
thing
,
old
James
Armstrong
came
to
see
me
.
His
daughter
,
he
said
,
had
disgraced
the
family
;
she
was
n't
married
and
she
had
a
child
.
It
had
been
hushed
up
,
of
course
,
but
when
they
tried
to
get
her
away
her
grandmother
made
such
a
fuss
they
had
no
choice
but
to
keep
her
on
the
place
,
in
spite
of
the
awkwardness
.
Now
the
grandmother
was
dying
,
there
was
nothing
to
stop
them
getting
rid
of
Fee
and
her
child
.
I
was
a
single
man
,
James
said
;
if
I
'd
marry
her
and
guarantee
to
take
her
out
of
the
South
Island
,
they
'd
pay
our
traveling
expenses
and
an
additional
five
hundred
pounds
.
"
Well
,
Father
,
it
was
a
fortune
to
me
,
and
I
was
tired
of
the
single
life
.
But
I
was
always
so
shy
I
was
never
any
good
with
the
girls
.
It
seemed
like
a
good
idea
to
me
,
and
I
honestly
did
n't
mind
the
child
.
The
grandmother
got
wind
of
it
and
sent
for
me
,
even
though
she
was
very
ill
.
She
was
a
tartar
in
her
day
,
I
'll
bet
,
but
a
real
lady
.
