The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-28

Then YOU prefer happiness MMcn
would bring Eith it the h hsst ,o Of
al would prefer, at all events, a shappi-
ness founded upon duty" she answered
srayely iand then, as if haf-ashamed OF
Her own eArNesfness, she asked him lightly
gssHIB it not strange to find these floating |
traditions of a paradise of peace and plenty
as these poor creatures, by their very con-
dition as a conquered race, must necessarily
befn
For that very reasonp; he. answered
quickly 1" for that very reason! Men de- |
spised as savages and treated As Wild beasts,
will either brood over schemes OF reaiven1
geance or soothe themselves with dreams OF
unreal bliss. Is it wonderful, therefore,
that these poor people, with their dreamy
and imaginative natures, should sometimes
look wistfully over the broad ocean, and
fancy they see land where IF once only 1T
nal sunshine, would console them for the
misery endured among these barren rocks,
in which they have been forced by their en-
emies to seek-I was going to say, home
il would have been far more correct to have
said-a prisonf
said Nellie, smiling" unjust to this fair
land you live in. The kingdom Of GraAa
Uaille can in NO sense of the word be called
prison; and even were it ten times less
beautiful than it is, to me it would still re-
main the one bright memory left me to look
Roger turned quickly round, but Nellie
met his eye with such . look Of frank can
dor and Inconsistencies Is to the possibility
Of any hidden meaning being attachable to
her words, that he felt tacitly rebuked be-
neath it, and merely said:
cay; but, Mistress Netterville, was
talking Of homo"
WHome - said Nellie softly Sc home,
after all, is but the place where the heart
gamers up it's treasures. These were almost
the last words my dear mother sAid to me,
and now feel their truth 'for II she were
| island in Clew Boy would become to me, I
think, at once as home like almost and dear
as Netterville itself"
| Again Roger seemed on the point of saying
something, but again he checked himself and
was silent.
Nellie saw the hush upon his brow, and
Interpreted it her own way. .,
"You are not angry, Colonel OMore,"
she said with the simplicity Of q child /;
surely you do not fancy, because spoke OF
Netterville, that ann ungrateful for the
kindness which has made this island like q
second home to me-"
"No. indeed he answered with smile
so bright that it must have treasured her
even if he had not said word in answer.
7 No, indeed. was, or at all events l am,
only thinking how I can best persuade you
as your home, even in the absence Of it.
= lawful owner.H
Absence said Nellie "are you going
: then, and whereforein
r "Whers6cre n said O'More, quickly. 81
) Mistress Netterville, though live upon
] this island, and though its Inhabitants
l acknowledge me as their chiestain, it IL yet
! . sorry 6ac3 that am poor, poorer In pro-
!, portion than the poorest Of the number; an
I outlaw, besides, with every mans hand and
sword against me. and nothing bat the ira
4 ditiona Of past maakness to soofhe, or, which
= much offener q thu caae, to add bitserness
= to the meanness Of nay present stetSoa.n
: "Why call Il sneaaness 2" sud Nellie
!, AashinR up. "Yon have fought sna ~
for your king and country, 10 Ne IN FAaF<
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