the stained glass window."

"The church is tumbling down, and before it is built up you want
me to put up statues."

"I'd like a window as well or better."

"I've got other things to think of now."

"Your reverence is very busy. If I had known it I would not have
come disturbing you. But I'll take my money with me."

"Yes, take your money," he said. "Go home quietly, and say nothing
about what you have told me. I must think over what is best to be
done."

Biddy hurried away gathering her shawl about her, and this great
strong man who had taken Pat Connex by the collar and could have
thrown him out of the school-room, fell on his knees and prayed
that God might forgive him the avarice and anger that had caused
him to refuse to marry Ned Kavanagh and Mary Byrne.

"Oh! my God, oh! my God," he said, "Thou knowest that it was not
for myself that I wanted the money, it was to build up Thine Own
House."

He remembered that his uncle had warned him again and again aginst
the sin of anger. He had thought lightly of his uncle's counsels,
and he had not practised the virtue of humility, which, as St.
Teresa said, was the surest virtue to seek in this treacherous