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65. CHAPTER LXV.
THE END OF ALL.

WE must add something for the reader's sake.

Of course young Mr. Urston married Skipper
George's daughter in due time. He first
went up to St. John's as a Protestant, and, finishing his
studies, was ordained in Halifax to the ministry of the
Church. He served his deaconate in the capital, and
when advanced to the priesthood, was appointed to the
mission at Castle-Bay, within sight of his father's house;
and a fine fellow he proved to be. His wife, as the
reader will believe, was not a whit unworthy of him.

Father Terence was said to be a good deal changed, in
the last years of his life; having become more silent and
reserved. Some Roman Catholics, who were ill-satisfied
with his tolerant and kindly spirit, gave him the name of
the “Protestant Priest.” Indeed, an assistant came
down to him of quite another sort from himself. Yet he
kept about his quiet way of life, beloved by the great
body of his people, until his death.

Fanny Dare was married happily to one between
whom and herself an engagement had been formed several
years before, but broken up for a time, or clouded
over, by things and persons in no way affecting their mutual
love.

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A letter to Mr. Wellon from the midst of a bridal tour
on the Continent, described an incident which may interest
the reader.

In entering her carriage at Civita Vecchia, she was
struck, without knowing why, by the appearance of a
person in the dress of an avvocato, who was bestowing
most animated attentions upon an English clergyman and
his wife just alighted, to whose party he seemed to belong.
Seeing her eyes fixed upon him, he lifted his hat,
with a grave courtesy, bowed, and turned away; but she
had already recognized, not the voice only, but the features
of one whom she had before both seen and heard
in Newfoundland, as Father Nicholas.

She saw the same man, playing the same part, afterward,
in Rome; and from the best information that she
could get, in answer to careful inquiries in both places,
believed him to be an agent in the pay of the pontifical
police.