The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-31
Written ferfhe Morning star.l
LOST FAITH;
OR,
PH II WO SISTE II S .
BY JAcoUELINE.

On a bright October evening, III the year
1921, there landed at the foot of B street q
large emigrant ship, just in from Cork, crowded
with families, who, dazzled by the glowing ac-
counts of tho new country, had left home and
friends to seek assured fortune in a strange
land. Among them was q young couple, hay-
ing for their solace. two little girls-the ono
still in her infancy, the other between three
and four years of age; her exquisite beauty
of the passengers, and her innocent prattle had
served to tighten the heart of many q solitary
young girl who had left just such a cushla
machree Of wee sister at home.
Dennis OBrien and his young wife, Nora,
were of a better. stamp than the majority of
their fellow passengers; and, Judging from the
which they were always ready to share with
their sick or more impoverished comrades, it
was also evident that they had started from
their home with heavier purse than generally
falls to the lot of an Irish emigrant.
This was true, for Dennis O'Brien had sold out
a piece of land that had come to him from his
father, who had received it as bequest from
his former lord and employer, for long years of
such fidelity as is rarely met with beyond the
boundaries of the Emerald Isle.
Finding, however, that it would be impossible
for him to cultivate and hold the land under
the oppressive rule of the English tax system,
he wisely determined to gather his household
gods and try his fortune in the new EfDorado,
that offered such bright promises to the strong
of arm and brave of heart.
To Nora, who had seen her father harassed
for long series of years, and finally crushed
solve was welcome; and, having only the
graves of her people to leave in her native
land, and being proud and aspiring by nature,
she gladly seconded the wish of her husband,
and followed him with joyful heart, full of
golden dreams, to the ship which was destined
to nut the wide ocean foreyermore between her
and the beautiful isle of her childhood's home.
She had never felt n moments regret for her
choice until the time came for leaving the ship;
but, owing to the delay of making good land
ing, in consequence of the crowded state OF the
shipping port, night had gathered around them,
and the faint twinkle of the city lamps only
served to make the darkness more visible, and
the unknown labyrinths of the city more dan
gerous and uninviting. In spite OF all these ,s
had been imperative to clear the ship" and
Nora clung in terror to her husband, question
ing the how and where of their future course.
Just then, the captain, who had been won
to the parents through the magic charm OF the
little Kate, stepped up to where they stood,
and settled all difficulties by offering to accom-
pany them on shore, and conduct them to q
private genteel boarding-house, that was kept
by one Of their own country women.
Thus, all fears and evil forebodings were set
at rest and, in an hours time, Nora felt, in the
% comfortable room and clean bed, safe and as
much Mt home as she had done in the ninety
DAYS that she had been sleeping to the lullaby
of the restless, moaning sea. ~
The means that Dennis OBrien brought with
him, together with his industry and persever-
ance, soon opened opportunities that gave
promise of Il rich harvest of future success
Ten years, with all the marvellous changes
that come to n thriving commercial city, mao
passed. and on IL New Years eve we meet again
our young friends of the good ship Robert
Emmett Dennis O'Brien enters q neatly fur
nished room in one of the low French houses
then the ruling style of architecture but which
were beginning to give way before the en-
croaching might of bricks and mortar; for til,
people were fast emerging from the old Spanish
and French idea, that the foundations OF thu
CITY were too weak and watery to support an.
thing more elevated than one, OF, at tn
highest, a two-story structuresof light wood:
money value OF bricks--thatD Dennis had achieves
such fortune in a few years, as a long life o