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He had come back, to save a citizen's life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal hazard, to the truth.
But was it for this folly that he was about to leave for ever the house of prayer and prudence into which he had been born and the order of life out of which he had come?
They are sought by so many, and they are granted (comparatively) to so few!
Perhaps he prayed for the souls in purgatory or for the grace of a happy death or perhaps he prayed that God might send him back a part of the big fortune he had squandered in Cork.
