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

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,utumn evening, and watched it when it
was black and swollen. lrimtnl beneath the
coming stOrm-when the wind seemed al
most a living pOwer-;l thing to be seen as
we'll as felt-as it swept over that mighty
mass of waters, mingling it's hoarse voice
D general forces on his troops, until it
dashed them in very frenzy of fru1tiess
valor against the beetling cliffs beneath us.
And, in truth, almost prefer 1t in those
moods" he added, like one thinking his
own thoughts aloud for then it looks
simply like what it is, huge monster ever
greedy for its prey, whereas, now, In this
iazy sunahine, it seems to me nothing more
or less than q great smiling treachery, WOO
ing its victims toward it, only that it may |
afserward tho more thoroughly enguf
Them"
"It is great, beautiful terror, even as
"what a height we are above it It makes
me giddy only to look down r.
"Oo not look, then,r said Roger anxious
", F" hnt rather turn inward toward yonder
Vie, WHOM h .-ay .aparated from the main
cliffs upon that island which look westward
over the ocean and rise eighteen hundred
feet shove it, and the inhabitants Win tell
you that, when the weather 10 calm enough,
you can SEQ from thence, at the settanG Of
the sun, the Ely Brysaii tho enchanted
,as s the and Ss g s q sss e .s s.oe
row never come, and where (so the old he
send tellA us) . handred years Of this NOR
fl life pass swiftly - . single day. Few,
a yo0 may veM sappeae, are the favoEed
mCzsAla who have even reached IL, and Sewer
stu, x any, wss have ever come back to
"Is u Q rsetty 1eSend, aid Nelly, strain-
ing hen eyes ovss Eke ocean % eianestly e.
though she eee3eoiay expected 10 discCver
the Giry islana sf which Ne spoke hoasing
ON it's bososa. slave you ever really seem
anything HE land In that direetienT
IF you choese, We cam 60 some Of these
wniling at her ssriousness; only, IL We do
lind -Rrysaif,' I warn you that We shall
have to stay there. Such is the law by
which adventures to its shores are bound.
1t does not seem hard law either, does It 7
Would you object to it, Mistress Meter
Sorrow forgotten as if it had never been be-
meath the spells Of that magic land !"
Nellie drew a long breath, and her blue
eyes grew well-nigh black with suppressed
feeling az she looked westward toward the
ocean. But she did not answer. 'l- Is
Well, he said, finding she would not
speak, ~ will you try the adventure with
me- OF do YOU still prefer earth and its pass
ing showers to this land of eternal sun
shine ." a $500 'sE'l- 80
Nellie sighcd--it almost seemed as if she
were nal King Il real choice !: and when he
playfully repeated. +" Have you decided 7
which shall it be--this old Kingdom of Graz
ma allie or Tir- n;,- n'oge!" she quite seri-
nusiy replied: ' '~u 1.t Pa
Nm 1ir-na-n'oge, certainly though a
year ago. perhaps, might have chosen
otherwise. But youth md its sunshine is
not real happiness. after all, although some
times ii looks very like it !: and even if it
were, there is something TO me in life OF
happiness, simple and unallOyed, less noble.
and less like the choice of n soul predes-
tined TO eternity, than in one of sorrow
hravely borne" 'r So
Sorrow has done its work well for you
ut all events, "eaid Roger moved to a higher
feeling OF reverence than, two minutes be-
fore. he would have thought it possible to
have entertained. for u creature so young
aud still so childish 20 gay -
Woe to the soul upon which it does Il
not. once that soul has been delivered to it
guidance" Nellie ansHered softly, and al
most, as it were, beneath her breath.
Roger gaEed upon her siler tly. 1t seeme'
as If she were changing beneath his Yer,
eyes from bright, impulsive child into
woman of deep and earnest feelings wo
man in every fibre of her fine, strong ma
ture-and yet still in the untried FRESHNESS
of her sixteen years as innocent and confid
ing as child.