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In those days adultery and divorce had belonged more in

America and England, read about and alien to what

already was being called the 'Irish way of life'. 'Decent,

Catholic Ireland,' Father Horan used to say. The term

was vague and yet had meaning. The emergent nation,

seeking pillars on which to build itself, had plumped for

holiness and the Irish language, natural choices in

the circumstances. 'A certain class of woman,' old Father

Horan used to say, 'constitutes an abhorrence.'

William Trevor, The Paradise Lounge