The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-04

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Tom had told him what had taken place 1e
tween him and Winuy; and although ne III"
not dread any alteration in his promise 10 nis
daughter he felt that he S9Sld ia aea rseoll %
ton of Winny's tears fresh on her cheeks, tnnn
If the matter were to lilo over for any time IA
therefore strollod through the farm ara, ans
out on the lane we have already spoken o OF,
and turned down toward the field az the oae ne
of his own garden. This movement was n "n
Of course 1nnotioed by the man wnT was he
sloped down toward the gate, at whicn NC anu
his son had held the conversational CONVEX
sation which had confirmed Winhy IN nt ne,
and motives
The two old men thus met once again at the
same spot at which the reader first saw tnem
aI'm glad you cum, Ned" said Murdoch sle"a,
| "for was watin' to see you, to tell you about
| Tom. He done his part yesterda' Elegant, nm |
| you may .sPake to the little girl now Us Soon
II have spoken to her, Mick. She tould me
| all about it herself last night"
| he thought she would, nor the way she led MN
| to think she would, aidher. hope sh 20 tonic
the thruth to you Ned, and didn't make 1iiet
Poor boy, he's greatly down about it,"
| "She did she tould nae the whole thruth,
Mick, avic, and it's all no use she 3 w !tn
| marry rom-thats the long and short OF It,.
him the way she was, Ned, and ladin the poor
young boy asthray as to her int'ntions WHICH,
| she brought him to the point"
my little girl never did anything OF the
kind. Mick; she'd scorn to do it,
"Well. no matther; she done it now, Ned
and for Tom he's the very boy I'd nather hum
bug a little girl, nor allow her to hnmbug him.
Did yon spake stout to her, NedW
II said all that was necessary, Mick awo.
chal but seen it was no use, an wouidn't
disthress the crathur."
"Disthress the crathnr aniow Athen may be
it's what you don't much care how that poor
80 5iStbr
"As for that, Mick, it needn't, nor it won't
disthress Tom a bit. There's manS a fine girl
in the parish that i'd answer Tom betther nor
my little girl aud when find that she's not
for him, Nick awochal, 1 tell you won't dis
thress the colleen by harsh mains, SO say no
more about it."
"Athen, Ned, l think you tuck it aisy
enough aither all you had tould me dother
day; you'd do this, an you'd do that, an
wouldn't you do, Ned tould you to be stud
dy, or she'd cum over You wild her pillaver
9 and tell you now what tould you then, that
. it is all through the mains of that pauper
n Lennon she has done this-a purity shauha,cn
a for her to DO wastin yomr mains an your hard
: carnin's upon. ARA Ned, 1 wondher yoa
o haven't more sense than to be delndhered by
!" that be2sarman out OF your little girl an your
@ money"
mo, Mick, young Lennen has nothing to
v say to it; if he never was born, Wlnny
3 wouldn't marry Tom. would not misbe-
n lieve Winny on her word, let alone her oath ;
; an she tould me she tuck her oath to Tom
y that she'd never Yarry him; lie taxed her
:, wild young Lennon, am so did l; an she de-
- clared, an / believe her there too. Mick, that
8 there never was a word between them on such
,r n subject; an let there be no moIe now be-
is tween us. 1t can't be helped. Bnt will not
disthress my little girl by spakin' to her any
v more about Tom"
rr book, TOMS not the boy thatll let himself be
~ med fool of by any one; an Pm the very fell
rs low that is able an willin' to back him up in
ID it,"
es "Athcn what do you name, Mick for the
at dcvil q wan of me can undherstan' that threat,
I'd at it beant the law you name, an sure the
ID gandher in the yard beyant i'd have more sense
ia that to think iv that. My little girl never
O. held out the smallest cumhither upon Tom ;
j. but, instead iv that, she tells me that she al
ways med scarce iv herself when ho to
10 the fore. So af it be law you name, Mick, you
III may do your worst"
" "No. it isn't tho law l name, Ned. Law is
Il dear ut best an twiste as dear at worst but
ed l name to say that III back up poor Tom 'ithin
ed there, that's brakin' his heart about Winny
TN an il you have any regard for her, you'll do
Nv the same thing; and you'll see will
ed bring the thing round ought; that's
he what name. The girl can't deny but what
he she med much iv Tom until that other spal-
I'd peen cum across her. Toms no fool, an
Id knows what girl mains very WELL
at "She does deny it, Mick, an 20 she But
l. there's no use, tell you, in sayin' any more
ID enough that Winny isn't for him tould her
3 l wouldn't strive to force her lkin dislikin
l. an won't; so just tell Tom that the girl is
a. in earnest, She tould him so herself, au' you
10 may tell him the same thing. lie can't think
a. so much about her, Nick rs you let on, for
Is there never was an counting betune them from
d first to last. I'll spake to you more about
it, Mick, an you needn't spake to me-"
to With this final resolve, Ned turned his back
As completely round upon his neighbour and
s. walked with hasty but firm step into the
ia house.
to Old Mick stood for some moments looking
rs after him i'll II state of pcrplexed surprise. lie
lie had some fears, though they not very
:. great, that Winny's influence over her father
;, was sut licently strong to determine him accord
ut ing to her wishes, if she was really averss
II to match with his son but this latter was
III II point upon which he had scarcely any fears
to at all except such were suggested by the
III hints his son himself has thrown ont about
young Lennon. Upon this part of the case he
RS had spoken to Ned in such u way as to make
v him determined 20 be very strict and decided
II in his opposition to any leaning on his
wv daughters part in that quarter.
II Old Mick, as he stood and looked, was per.
lie picked on both these parts of the case If he
ed believed that Wiuny Cavana had really and
nd decidedly refused to marry his son, he could
ut only do so upon the suppostion that young
Lennon was the handspring of the whole
to movement. And, again, to suppose she had
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