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the good ten dace of Ralph, Meggie lives happily. However, Ralph is a priest and he dreams to be the eparch. He loves his God so he cannot love Meggie. In order to gain more money to help him advance in the catholic hierarchy, Ralph goes close to Mary who is Paddy’s sister and the richest person in the Drogheda area. Ralph is a handsome and ambitious priest. The treasure of Mary is attractive. She knows Ralph love Meggie. She also knows she loves Ralph but Ralph could not accept her love so she carries out a perfect revenge. Just this revenge Changes the whole life of Meggie and Ralph. Ralph always refuses Mary putting him being a priest not a man as excise. He also refuses Meggie. At last, he gets the chance to the Catholic hierarchy, and he loses his freedom, his love even his all. He ignores that he is also a man, a nature man. He can love others. This is one nature as a man. Therefore, Ralph is painful. He puts himself in the dilemma of loving God or loving Meggie. Due to Mary’s money, Ralph gains the attention of the church and is promoted to Sydney. Before he leaves, Meggie confesses her love for him. Ralph refuses her because of his duties as a priest and he entreats Meggie to find and marry a beau. Then he leaves her. Then Meggie courts Luke, who has recently come to Drogheda. He looks remarkably like Ralph and Meggie take a liking to him .He marries her and takes her away. After Meggie married, Ralph knows he loves Meggie so deep. He always thought Meggie could not marry because she belongs to him forever. Meggie is lonely and distraught for Luke leaves her in a poor place and goes to become a sugar cutter. When Meggie bears Justine, Ralph visits her once. He wants to say goodbye to Meggie because he is leaving Australia but whether Meggie yells and swears at him, he leaves her again. Meggie is getting weaker and weaker and the family she is staying with pities her greatly. Therefore, they sent her to a quiet summer resort for rest. Ralph comes back on a holiday to find Meggie. The family tells him where Meggie is. Then Ralph joins Meggie, and then a revelation comes over him. He loves Meggie more than He loves God and he is indeed only a man, no matter how godlike he had tried to become. They spend two days together, and he is forced to return to his position. No matter how deep he loves Meggie he cannot change the fact that he is a priest and his whole life belongs to God. When Meggie comes back from the island, she leaves Luke, but she does not divorce him, because she is now pregnant with Ralph’s baby. C. The Ultimate Victim—Meggie As Dane grows up he wants to be a priest, Fee tells Meggie that she has to give what she steals from God back. Justine wants to be an actress. Therefore, she leaves Australia to seek for her dream. Dane goes to Ralph who is now a cardinal but Ralph does not know that Dane is his own child. He takes great care of him just because of their resemblance; people mistake them for uncle and nephew. Ralph and Dane encourage the rumor. So Ralph’s close relationship with Dane is not mistaken. Dane drowns in Greece in order to rescue two girls life. It was the time that the civil war is going on. Meggie needs to find her child. She needs Ralph’s help. He refuses to help right away. Therefore, Meggie speaks out the truth she wants to keep secret the whole life –Dane is his son. Soon after Dane’s death, Ralph passes away. Ralph contributes his all to God. At last, he loses everything except the love co