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

Ttey were going to q great house IN a,rtsS :
park, whore fern waved us ~. . Ian,nied deer
from sightSwhere great ancestral oaks Trees.
protecting branches where hawthorn u, Moj to-
that it had taken three Spotted' twisted
strange, dark, stunted looking trees las like /
cd, till spring came, and no green green W." dover {
their and the fludy %; to see
place was called Beremouth. ona of ,
A mile and o half off was town oeS
those odd little old places whlcn ten am.n.cta6le
place There had lived in Marston the uU
aeer ladies of old country families, IN no.o on
which had no pretensi1ns 70 ganist street, but
which on the other side broke out INTO pay
widows, garden fronts; charming consesv, asin
to make life pleasant. So the inhabitants OF
Marston were not all mere country to wu
pie They knew themselves to be someooo'e'
and they never forgot It,
Now, in this town dwelt q certain wioow
lady poor she was, but she had pedegree
and two beautiful daughters. Marie and LUCIA
Morier were not two commonly, or even Gn
pssats ssad and nothing
lovers came q Counting: One married Scotch t
man, q Mr.. Erskine. They liked each otGea
t nsSe d hsI p: They lived happily did good
wished for children but never had airy, ana 30
adopted Mr.. Erskines orphan nepne ,vith such
strange imprudence in tho inn at Hull Mr..
Erskine the uncle was twenty years 0ioer Juan
CT was but q child when they adopted him.
But no was their heir, rs we'll Us inc III neil.o,
Of his fathers fortune, and they ioved ado
cared for him.
at twenty, her younger sister having marriee
the month before at eighteen. Mary did on,
ferenty, for she did imprudently: They u. naa
mines thirty miles off and there he lived
bnt lie came home often enough and made TN me
house in the old town gay year s;ster was
away on visit to friends in Scotland, the
brother came home i'll. He was i'll for SIX
months. 1t is wonderful how much expense Is
, incurred by mother in six months 8 for son
who is sick. 1t made life very difficult; Inc
money to pay for Lucia's journey home had 10
, be Thought Of. To be sure, she was not there s
r cost something. George had only earned one
+ hundred year. 1t had not been moro than
enough to keep him. He came home III Win wiz
only ten pounds in his pocket, beside his nall
years rent, which would be due the next
month-certainly money at this time was
wanted, for our friends were sadly pinchea.
/ want Jenifer was paid her wages and tea anu
a sugar money for the day and the doctor got
so many guiueas that he grew desperate ana
suddenly made q Chrstian-like bargain, that
never saw another piece Of any kind OF mon
@ -ey. ., =;
the face one day, and that look told all, There
. was somo plate, and they had watches, and a
i little fine Old fashioned jewelry-yes, they
n must go. They were reduced to poverty at
Il | last-this was more than Limited means"-
q hard penury had them with a desperate grasp.
O Fortune comes in many shapes and not often
/ openly, and with flourish of trumpets-
II neither did she come in that way now; but
g slamefacedly, sneaking, and ringing the door
10 bell with meek, not to say tremnlous pull ;
g and her shape was that of a broad-bnilt, short,
is man, with curious quantity Of waistcoat
p showing, yet, generally, well dressed. Your
= mistress at home7' "Yes, Mr. Brewer" MT n!
Gsorse better heg yoar paren 9s
" be ssss Ms aske deg s F Ah yes; have
We little business to transact with your mistress
Id by Jcnifer into the little right-hand parlor HI
c, Gravely took out q huge pocket-book ana thel
lie n small parchmcnt-covered account-book ap
rk peared. l believe he had persuaded hilnsel
NJ that he really going to transact business
IN, and not to perform the neatest piece OF decep
ie ton that respectable gentleman ever at
d. tempted. lady entered the ROOM Mad
he am, your son has been my agent for niue.
n three ycars-my mine and land agent since
&C. Christmas He takes the additional work a
nd seventy pounds year extra ,,o The .s maj!
DIS have brought it," Aud thirty-seven pound
les ten shillings Mr.. Brewer put on the table. say
re ing, 81 will take your receipt, madame. Don
lie when you do speak of that you will have, al
IL. sorry to say, to inform him that in both hi
nd places have had to put another man. hay
at to give George three months payment Mt tn
ok rate of one bundled and seventy pounds a yea!
to as gave him quarters warning. That
business, do you understand ~ asked NJ
ST. Brewer. sit is for my to discharge him
re- self, sir-since he cannot"--the mothers voic
re-, faltered.. "Ah-only he didn't, and did,
of said Mr.. Brewer. "Your receipt When you
to son RECEIVERS, let him apply to me. am SOFT
it to end our connection SO abruptly. But it
not business. Business, you know" and thel
hey Mr. Brewer stopped, for Mary Morier was
,ch the reom, and her beauty filled it,, or seemed
hes do SO. And Mr.. Brewer departed mutterin
get as he had muttered before often, "the mo
se," beautiful girl in the world" Still, he had
net uncomfortable sensation, for he felt he was
AXE underhand sneak, and that Mary had four
in him out and so she had. She knew that b
brother had been discharged" only to afford
I'm, pretext for giving the quarters money; al
he she was sure that his being land agent, at 1
,ng additional seventy five pounds year, was
to pure unauthorized fiction.
,ed Mr.. Brewer was extraordinary man.
of had turn for tho supernatural. He won
inc have liked above all things to have work
no miracles. He did do odd things, such
He, We have SEEM which he made, by means of t