The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-27

told her how my whole heart and soul w
G Gaitng for her this three or four years past
God forgive ME for the Iie"
wasn't, man. o1re vexed now, Tom agra
t but tit it y; wo oa tell yoa sho only wan
se ope yoGm folly her up afther she giyi1
Here Nancy Feebily brought in tho roa.
goose and sqnare of bacon, with a dish {
snioking Browne fancies" in their jackets
an: and check was given to the conversation
ne old man, rs he had said, had keep him
sell starvin'," and Tom could not keep. himsel
from q like nfirmity in his ramble through til
country. He was not one of those who per
nilt,eu d mental annoyance to produce ply
slcai spite In return: he did not, rs they say
cut ms nose to vex his face, nor quarrel witt
ms ms bread and butter; 30, between them. they
| as y cook.
You don't name to say she refused you
i LSm =, said the old man, after the girl had
him another slice of bacon.
She dld, father; but let me alone about hel
nov III tell you no more until mako my.
se1 rousing tumbler of punch after dinner.
events" "
Nor did she. Tom never alto u better dinner
IN bis life, and his father folIowe ed his exam
more upon the subject. There was nothing
ont neiping OF goose, and sicing of bacon, and
c .,;,ns large smiling potatoes through the
i'n WITH u dangerous sound of the knit
Then, when the things had been removed.
anu lotn had made his rouser to his satisfac-
Ion and his father had done the same, Tom told
i hi precisely what had taken place between
o!d Murdoch listened with an attentive
stare until his son had told him ALL He then
P;n out MS tongue and made another extraor-
binary sound, but very different from th o one
already alluded to; and exclaimed, bad luck
to her impotence, sayIw
ana say amen, father
lel- me, Tom, do you think that fellow
Lennon is at the bottom of all this ? Did Won
put that to her p
Il did father, and she was not bit puzzled
Or ustrlhcated about him. She spoke OF him
lfee and easy; but she denied that there
;ivility.'' common
An maybe it's the thruth Tom avic. You'll
ma anyhow that she'll change her tune afthcr
nsr iather gets spakn' to her the subject.
ne le,I II DO as stout rs q bull, Tom; know he
VII. lie tould me he'd never give in, and
'ua1 he'd threaten to cut her FORUM off and
maze over his interest in the land to the
he smallest notion of that pauper-thnt
culilon, he called him. DON'T be down about |
T. lohi. They say that wan swallow makes |
10 summer an say, wan wild goose makes
~ WINTER. NY advice to you now, Tom, is, to |
'ait while; don't be goin' out at all, neither |
lere nor there for some time. Phi let on don't |
now nov, what can be the mattAer with yon; an
Ike pet robin" 49,
Il hope you arc right, father, but DONE
Iinh SO; never saw a woman moro dctermin-
IN my life-she took her oath"
"Pshaw, Tom, That's nothin'. DON'T tor
lent yourself about it now; mark nv words
er father will soon bring her to her senses"
DO not much care whether he does or
oes not as to herself; only for that elk hum
req pounds, the most of which l want badly.
would not envy any man that was tied to the
Ike OF her" ~
ARA, Tom jewel, what would Won want
St ~ 4 Il
! OF it," p'''
Tom had not intended to say what he did
= IL snpped out in his vexation. Bus here
> worldly cunning and self-possession came
MS AID and he replied
feThaps not indeed, father; but there il a
ot OF land not far off Which will soon to he in
10 market, l hear and it would be No Ind .
to buy it. think il womb nav
< or seven per cent. interest" Tom know
s fathers weakness for bit of land. and
as ready enough ' ~
'Ob, that's horse of another co,or rr
,ra, where Is it didn't hear of it,"
NO matter now, father. cannot get the {
oney, 50 iet me alone about it. / wish the
- had the pair of tbemn
~ hist, whist, Tom avic. don,t Iva tol,,;,r -
tnat way. Sure if it's "a safe purchase for
pel cene., 'he money might be had Thanks
~ ~ Gou, were net behauldn' to that girls
Tty urio ior nloney., !
Here new light Lav,,d ,no,, ,,, a1;r+
h?I Work "a lew hundreds out of his ia
IL ~ sohie way or other for this pretended
tenase, ana then say that it would not be s.
u utter an and that he had relodged tho
'iey' or or LOST 1t, or was robed-or-or-some-
~ no Thought was too vague as vet to
>e any satisfactory shape; hut tho result y,
on hlsNhlnd at the nsment was, that his IA n
II was too wide awake to be dealt with in Of
At way. AVA Ia I
We'll, father" he said, 81 shall be ruided "
your acv in this business STILL although =
ave done no good by taking it to. day: hIt G
zen TO me now father" \
An welcome, Tom. 1 like youDr ma, tn
sc mind of his own, au' to be alba to oh
strike out good plan; an then. if
experience isn't able to back it up whv
'ke plain " an tell him what think
My opinion is, father, that ought TO On
ay ont of this place altogether fora while.
n know am not one that moping about the
1se and garden would ans wer at all. must
ses" - VI o'0 my
his was well put, both in matter and man.
> and the closing words told with crowninp
ct. Tom had said nothing bat the fact:
, "a were his disposition and habits that he
Schrc1iy exaggerated the effects of n close
u 1":nent to the premises, while of sound
'iy health.
Tom, what you say is the rale thrutb.
at would you think of going down to yonr
= in Armagh for n start7"
No use, Father,-no use I could be no bet
there than where am. Dublin. father or
continent, for q month or six weeks might
ne some good" {