The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-31

evening
wine and when fire. being lighted in the CRATE diff
fused its warmth around the bare stony walls he chated with
him about his lands crops and SO on and heard from him
some experience of great storm in which vessel
wrecked on the coast local incident connected with
the political disturbances which had occurred few years
previous When the farmer descended the ladder for such
was the means of reaching the upper chamber after hearing
him speak his wife in high good humor about the strange
gentleman above and when presently all quite Lucien
who had passed time arranging his books raised the
small window of the urret and looked out the solitary
scene with feelings of tranquil satisfaction The full
beamed the waters which, then at full tide covered the
sands and washed the rocks beneath the distant islands and
headland gmmered and gloomed the passing of few
snowy Clouds seagull two foaed the shining calm
and wind swooned and through they
draping the batements and change from
solitude another hasts charms and Lucien pleased with the
strangeness of his residence and the tranquil beauty of
the scene continued his contempve survey long after the
inmates of the beneath wrapped in Sleep At
first the completely deserted but presently along the
shining line of the horizon single sail appeared dmly
visible however, that he remained half uncertain
whether it was barque a cloud.
CHAPTER II.
1t Lucien Hamars rise early and the next
morning before the risen he had gone out for
rambe along the high seabanks enjoy the fresh air and
coast scenery Having reached struggling path that wound
On side of black rock arranged in fantastic strait
caions ued from the Shore whence the dim sands spread
away for than mile before ending the fringe of the
waves whose fresh howery, ringing sounds from the
distances dim haze still vailed Lambay and Howth The
yet remained hidden behind magnificent cloud
overhangng the bay, whose SUBMITS rdged with gold
against the palld dawn, seemed like tumu of pillows
heradng splendid deuge while its clouds and mists
assumed architectural FORMS amphitheater and temple and
off
with the light and air.
Presently the misty spaces of sand the opening dawn
radiaed in long shafts reddening the slips of water the
sands and the rocky POOLS and lighting up the grassy banks
covered with dew and wild flowers In the sky wheeled the
seabirds in crooked lines and from the
their cry they fed by the hay sand ridges Westward the
country sloped away in arabic and pasture the thick
woods which here and there against the sky overlooked
by the chmneyedroof of mansion the urrets of
Maahide case while in the distant fields the husbandman
guideds pillow through the deep burrows his voice rising
and then under the gray solemn morning.
Lucien had turned from the shore and crossed fields
towards an old belfy-he last fragment of ruined chapel
which stood about quarter of mile off green hillock
surrounded by green grasses when the slow oing of little
bell from the village floating in sad cadences at inter-
walls the and looking in that direction he presently
funeral train approaching through the adjoining mead
He paused until the few figures bearing the coffin had
passed towards the graveyard and hen possibly DESTROYS
witness rural BURIAL followed them The had just risen
above the seward of cloud they approached the
ruins when the figures of two who had been digging
grave were seen resting from their completed toll
Lucen drew near to the grave around which stood few
peasants, and beside which lay the coffin. The priest had
not yet arrived and several stretched the grass
others old man, who having saluted Lucien the latter
sitting by his sde inquired in low tone the name of the
dead about to be consigned to the EARTH The man told him
young girl who had died few days BEFORE and pro-
ceeded say that she the prettiest girl in the village
that she went by the of Mabel Maurice name given
her by the farmer by whom she brought up and who
had saved her from shpwreck when little child Imcen
interested in the simple narrative inquired how long it was
since that event had occurred fifteen years this very
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