The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-23

rode tooether. He took boxes ut the theatre, |
and they made parties and went together. ~, no
gave the girl jewelry and fine ciorhes' anu 10y
really got to know each other, and to ENJOY
life together as could never have been the case
had they not been thus left to their own way.
The child no longer felt herself OF dlheTens
q companion in the child who could grace ms
position, and keep her own: They parted with
love and anxious bookings forward to the sum- n
a new happiness. When Mr. Brewer got back
to Marston, he led q dull. dreamy ufeIa year
and a half of widowhood passed-then ne went
to Mrs. Morier's, saw Mary, and asked her 10
be his wife. It is not easy to declare why
Mary Lorimer said-after some weeks OF won
dering- mindedness-why she said YES" Sne
knew all Mr.. Brewers goodness. she preieIEeu,
no Doubt not to wound heart that had SO
often sympathized with the wounded. Sne
never, in her life, could have borne to see 6I n
vexed without great vexation herself. que
liked that he should be rewarded. Sne was
interested in Claudia. She liked the thought
of two hundred year settled on her mother:
She liked to feel that her own little Mary might
saucy county family" damsels, her COUSINS
who already looked down on her, and scorned
her pink spotted calico frock.- 7i--,---.-,7.- -
Mary aud Mr.. Brewer walked quietly 70
church Mrs. Morier still in astonishment
and Jenifer "dazed :" but all the working peo-
pie loved Mr.. Brewer And they walked PACK ,S
man and wife, to her mothers house. ana haa
a quiet substantial breakfast before they ne!
started for London. And when there DIT.
Bre VI er told her that they were not to return
to the respectable stone-fronted house rae
had bought Lord Byland's property-and that
Berem0uth was theirs. Beremouth, with its
| spreading park, and river, and lake, its miles
Of old pasture-land, it's waving ferns, ana Gap,
pied deer; Beremouth, with its forests anu
gardens, royal oaks and twisted hawthorn
trees; Beremouth the finest place in the coun-
try And all that Mary felt was, that he who
! had kept this secret had had q trne hero's
delicacy, and had never thought to bride her,
| or to get her by purchase into his home. l
think she almost loved him then.
In due time, after perhaps six months OF
wandering. and of preparation, Mr. ana Airs'
Brewer arrived at their new home, made gicrl-
GUS by all that taste and art could do, with
London energy working with the power OF
gold to back it. With them came Claudia.
The child loved her new mother with an aDan-
donment of heart and perfect approval. She
was still too young to argue, but she was not
too young to feel The mother she had now
got though not much more tnan zen nv years ad'
mire, delight in-the mother who could I'M
derstand her.
Then Beremouth just suited this young lady 8
idea of what was worth having in this world !;
and without any evil thought of the homeiy
mother who had gone, there was thought
that " Mother Mary" as Mrs. Brewer was call
ed by her step-daughter, looked right at Bere-
mouth, and that another class of person would
have looked wrong theresa wrong that her
father under such circumstances would never
ha
Minnie Lorimer was happy in her great play
ground for all the world and all life, was play
to little Minnie. She loved her new sister
and the new sister patronized and pstted her
! so all seemed right. 1t was, indeed, great
happiness for Claudia that her father had cho
, sen Mary Lorimer. Claudia was vixenish
hiph-sprited, full Of life, health, and fun:
, giTi who could have yielded to very few, ant
Who brought the homage Of heart and mind t.
MotL.r-Mary," and reJoieee s;l IN dong g, ~
| after three years Claudia came home and cam
. out, all parties were happy. :: ~,
. In the meantime Mr.. Brewers way in tn
: world had been straight, plain, and rapidl
:, travelled The county was at his feet. Mar
y was no longer congratulated on having bee
y broug ht up to poverty. Behind her back Their
4 were plenty of people. to say that Mr. Brewe
= was happy in having for his wife Il well con
~ nected gentlewoman. Her pedigree was tolt
her poverty forgotten. Her singing and play
!, lug dancing and drawing, were none the wors
= for unkuow thousands u year: And peopl
wondered less openly at the splendor of We
= vets and diamonds than they had at the me-
W muslin gown. To Mary herself life was yer
" she admired her husband, and approved {
d him. 1t was the awakening into life of
# new set of feelings. She knew none of tn
~ love and devotion she had felt for her frs
u husband. Mr.. Brewer never expected any
"a it. But he intended that she should, in SON
~ other indescribabie manner, fall in love wit
az him, anu she was uoluS IL oNeiy QaS-M hit
~ -, thing her husband saw, and welcomed Ii
y with great satisfaction in consequence.
m 1t was when Claudia came out that the IN:
in we have seen, Horace Erskiue, first came
Is them He was just of age. Mary did not lii
es him She could give reason for it. Her s.
gs ter had always praised him-but Mary COZ
not like him. He came to them for a series
ri. cav doings, and Mr.. Brewer admired him, a,
ar Claudiaepoor little Claudia! She gave hi
If that strong heart of hers; that spirit til
M could break sooner than bend was quite c
10. slayed-she loved him, and he had asked
or her love, and vowed q hundred times that
to could never happy without it. He ask
en- her of her father, aud Mr.. Brewer consent
A It was not for Mary to say no; but her he
ch went cold in its fear, and she was very ssrry
lat The Erskines in Scotland " ere delighted
nd seemed doing we'll. But when Horace Ersk
So. talked to Mr.. Brewer about money, he
md told that Claudia would have on her marrii
one five thousand pounds; and ten thousand me
at if she survived him, would be forthcoming
TIL his death-that was all. Enough for a
ew man." said Mr.. Brewster, and Erskine V
nm silent. 1t went on for few weeks, Hor
it being Eighty and odd, Claudia, for the 4
.lly time in her life humble and endearing. IT
ge. he told her that to him money was neoessa
Yer then he asked her to appeal to her father