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His father opened and read it in silence.
"Well, father?" he said.
"A former letter was lost, it seems. This should have come in the
spring; it is only the missing sum."
"Does O'Neil fix any time?"
"No; but he hopes to make a better report next year."
"Then, father," said De Courcy, "it is useless for me to wait
longer; I am satisfied as it is. I should not have given up
Margaret in any case; but now, since thee can live with Henry's
help, I shall claim her."
"MUST it be, De Courcy?"
"It must."
But it was not to be. A day or two afterwards the young man, on
his mettled horse, set off up the Street Road, feeling at last that
the fortune and the freedom of his life were approaching. He had
become, in habits and in feelings, one of the people, and the
relinquishment of the hope in which his father still indulged
brought him a firmer courage, a more settled content. His
sweetheart's family was in good circumstances; but, had she been
poor, he felt confident of his power to make and secure for her a
farmer's home.


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