The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-03-09

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story of the daughter of friend, and one oi
her letters saying her last gold was changed
into silver, aud that she was too ill and wern
ont to win more, was so dreadful, that fear
ed for her mind. So Mr. Brewer went to Dr.
Rankin, and got her taken in as q patient. ut
hrst, and when she got we'll she was kept on
heart; when she heard of Lady Greystock's
trial, she took to her. DR.. Rankin says he
could never have cured Lady Greystock SO
perfectly nor SO quickly, but for Eleanor"
| singly. Have You been in Ireland since the
girl left it with her husband !~
never was there in my lfc My mother
was Irish, and she li:ed as servant in Eng
land. She married an Englishman and she
had two daughters, my sister-Eleanors 8
Dother-and myself. My mother went back
| to Ireland, year after her husbands death,
on a visit; and she left my sister and me with
my fathers family. She married in Ireland
almost directly, and married well. q mar with
| a good property, u farmer. She died, and left
| one son. My sister and were four and five
years older than this half brother of ours.
Then time wore on and MY sister Ellen went
| to Ireland, and she married there, and the fe-
yer cane to the place where they lived, and
carried them both off, and she left me q legacy
my niece Eleanor-oh sir with such q holy
letter of recommendation FROM her death-bed.
or asked to have Eleanor to stay with hin,
when she knew enough to be useful on the
iarm. He was n good Christian, aud let him
tax take the the giri. She was very pretty, people
there came-sent he said by great rich
English noblenan-a man who called himseif
gardener, or something of that sort. He
lodged close by; he made friends with my
brother. lie was often off after rare bog
Ilauts. and seemed to lead busy If OH easy
lito. He wonld go TO mass with them. But
they knew lie WAS Protestant. Eleanor
knew that her uncle would not consent to
her marry ing Protestant. But, poor child,
she gave her heart away to the gentleman
in disguise. He had had friends there-a fish
he no int 1a1
but they were married by the priest, and ho
got over the holy man, whom every body loved
and honored, with his falseness, as he had got
over the true-hearted and trusting woman |
whom he had planned to desert"
"Well," said Father Daniels "you know l
succeeded this priest for a short time at Rath-
er understood how it all happened. l left n |
record to save Eleauor's honor; but she has no |
legal claim on her husband-it ought not to
have been done" Jenifer shrank beneath the
Is IN a." her heart said, sinking as it were at
the sorrow that had come on the girl whom
breath. 20
"She ought not to have trusted a man who
was Protestant, and not willing to marry
her in the only way that is legal by the Irish
marriage mi law" " My Ije and all that is in it,"
so hopelessly fell on her heart every word
that the priest spoke, that. but for that offer
ing of all things to God, poor Jenifer could
scarcely have borne her trial.
IL
to be Horace Erskine, why, he will marry
some unhappy woman some time of course
ana ana the Inc , law of the land will give him one wife
claim him. OH, if people would but obey the
InOly church and not try to live under laws of
lhH Again, only that could have made Jeni- {
fer bear the trials that were presented to !
her.
And if gossip spoke truth lie was very 5
near near marrying Lady Greystock once-Mr. j
trn ar oil Il -,
one more great act of submisson-' My life, L
md all that is in il ''-camo forth from Jenifers d
hoart. She loved Mr.. Brewer, with u faithful /
sort OF worship-if such n trial as that had f
come ON him through her trouble that was il
aver that had been turned aside; but the 1
thought gave rise to question, even as she \
thanked God for the averted woe Il
Is it Eleanor's duty to find out if Henrv ~
Evelyn and Horace Erskine are one ?, "YesW
said the priest. "Yes; it is. 1t is eyerv.
1ody's duty to prevent mischief 1t is her =
luty, as far ns lies in her power, to prevent re @ y
Nugent says, what then ?" q
:; ., BE content for the present. 1t is very =
liihcult case to act in"
foor Jenifer felt the priest to be sadly want Il
ng in sympathy-she turned again to him 81
Tho VI Knows all and feels ALL and she offered up a
ne disappointment that would grow up in her q
leart-" My life, and all Mat is in il ;" n
She turned to go and then Father Daniels v
poke so kindly, SO solemny, with such a "
epth of sympathy in the tone Of his voice VI
Ged bless you my child - and the sign of &
he cross seemed to bless her sensibly. sTbank h
ou father" Aud without lifting her ewes n,
ne lett the room and the house and still say, HI
ng that prayer that had grown to be her 81
trength and her help, she went up the steen re-
ngged path to the spreading down: and then n,
he turned round and looked on tho great sca N
eaving lazily under the sunset rays, that h,
a,nted it in the far distance with gold and f.,
ed, and n silyery light, till it touched tho cI
uoy coiored sky. and received each separate nj
ny Oh glory on its breast just W here earth and ct
eaven seemed to meet-just where Won conld w
ancy another world looking into the dsntba al
4 tho great sea that flowed up into its gatas -,
{ seemed to do Jenifer good The HhoIs =
cone was so glorious, and tue glory was so far ",
the world seemed to rest n,
11Snd tS ; her bathed in warm light and basking al
the smiie of heaven. She stood still and aa;S ci
u that is in It :" @'e' """ M n,
Her great dread that day when Mr.. Brewor ~
ad told her to put him and his into her nrav. ~
r, had been lest the punishment of ain sbonId n,
ONO on the man who had deserted her Gcar n,
irl, and lest that sims effect in heart broken "
ise1se ssH should fall on the girl herself L.
When Mr.. Brewer said, Put me and NINA -
ito that prayer, Jenifer," the thought had -
sen that she would tell him of Eteanor She
id told him and he had helped her Bnt She
sd never thought that, by acting ON the i'm. NJ
llSe, the two women whose benrta n. |