The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-09

EENGEK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER
1t did not need much reckoning up. or any "
treat powers of calculation to mako it appar- n
ent that Ella had started off at the rate Of two
could manage on a simple hundred q year. She q
sat for q long while in o dreamy, mnsing way, &
marking down figures on the paper before her 8
p e or looking at vacancy. Finally she rose, q
rung the bell, and requested that copy OF q
The Times should be sent for, and supplied to q
her daily until further notice.
Then, when brought to her, she ran her eye
carefully over its advertising columns, and Sc
lectinS three from persons requiring daily
governesses," she at once wrote TO the aoVer-
In the evening, a clean, healthy LOOKING
young woman made her appearance, and Ella
eaeed her at once as nurse to the baby. She
proved unsuccessful in her applications, ana
at length decided on advertising herself and
ton as daily governess, in the new suburb OF
Brixton, q salary of one guinea week. ,..s
She had entailed upon herself endless din
culties by the abduction of the poor infant, as
Well as much hard work and one way or an
| other lived more poorly than formerly on her
small stipend of fifty pounds year. sun s .o
| never for one moment entertained regre1 ior
| the step she had taken.
CHAPTER v.
"Then it is settled, definitely settled, that 1
am to return home next week"
Yes, my dear child. Mother Prioress sees
You have yourself heard what the doctor has
to PsssisS z oSf was
it is Gods will that you should return to the
world. We have done all that was in our
power, and still your Health continues SO weak
that we dare not admit you to your Religious
. Thus spoke the mistress of Novices of one
: of the English Converts, to one " hom we In
9 kathleen Fitz Maurice. am very sorry to
q leave you all !; very sorry to have to return to
stood in her eyes. Mother Prioress is right !;
- as this decision is resolved upon, the sooner !
!. leave the better"
~ who has q real, honest, sincere. earnest desire
4 to leave the world, to be forced back upon II
ia again. am not abiding to the vast numoe!
- Of young ladies, who rush in moment OF b!1e
enthusiasm into o convent, to try their reil
:, pious vocation, the term goes, but OF the
- few here and there who believe, in the SINGER
~ ity of their souls, that they are called to life
a. of retirement; and 1 cannot well conceive .
s sr greater disaster, more imminent to the
Ct future happiness, than for such as these to b.
"A thrown back upon q world they mad imagined
"a Such was the condition of Kathleen. In tn
~, ~ midst of her zeal, she had proposed to make
eioa Ths vow wse
70. forbidden to be made by the prudent dlscretlo
&c of him in whose hands she would have mad
~, it, but the poor girl was SO earnest, that dul
WI ing the long years that interviewed between he
w leaving the convent and her finally giving
o ~, all idea of a religious state, she no NOR
w dreamed of breaking her resolution than sh
80, would have broken her VOW had she made /
he and consequently she could not bring herse
Ihe to accept an eligible offer of marriage mac
Sho by a we'll TODD chemist in Dublin. Thoi
'no years. too, had been years of great trial, bt
she became happy at last by the remembran'
IN, that God 80 willed it; aud by her perceptl9
no ea1f.sacrlfCe. al
OF came at last to the conviction that her missile
her was cast in the world; then she set herself
let' work, and never again pined after that swe
I'm Elysium which is the lot of the favored tie
Ugh whom God hath really called to the cloister.
had Just before Kathleen returned home, n
ling Ftz Maurice had written that he should -
cure with her mother and younger sister, her tath
mis- having obtained an Apo ntment in merca
For things he
and elapsed when her father was seized with
lnds sudden illness which terminated in his dea
this leaving behind him sckly widow, his
T of Robert, at that time holding situation il
her merchants office; Kathleen, then twenty-ei
years old and her younger sister, Helen,
her was come eight years her junior.
mni- Even in her long years of sickness,
'rds, energy of character which Kathleen posse 81
t di- made her an artist, and though little m,
that self-taught she nevertheless produt
be sketches far above what may be termed O
Jug mediocre quality, ana WHICH OeluR Solu ny
e of mother prevented her from being burden
>, IN her family.
1T as Blessed with q strong constitution,
and eventually struggled through her illness,
the devoting herself entirely to the task of tea
an ing, she managed to struggle along in
is to state of genteel poverty which is just Ii
with raised above the horrors of downright W
their
and CHAPTER VI.
~ The Gaming House.
In certain street in the neighborhoo'
Grlo1s Leicester Square, there is one of those ho
in which are the pest and scourge of society
road, allude to q low clearinghouse.
pay In the place in question honesty is sc
90 Of naught, for it is frequented by gang of sh
hotel ers, who lay in wait for the unwary; and
sting be to those whom a passion for the card-t
hood draws to such place as this
On a bleak night in March, young won
f her very tbinly clad, if we may judge by the "
ly in worn black shawl with which she strov
i9ued protect herself and an infant, whom she
ot re- 10 her arms, from the inclemency of the
q TO- ther, emerged from house in the Palace R
de in on the Surrey side of Westminster Bridge,
needless of the pelting storm, against WI