The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-10-10

would comfort her best, had brought her there.
constance" she said, II have heard of your
duct to me, and take You home"
''Ny sorrow! oh, mother, is it possible it is
not yoursf"
Aud no answer being given, she rose from
her couch, and stood before her erect, the i'm
personation of majesty.
'Do you know his great heart broke 7" she |
said, in the tone of judge bestowing sentence
"do you know the life just over was martyr'si
Do you know wbyf"
Then she turned to the door of the room
where she knew be lay, who was dearer to her
in death than anything left in life.
will never go home, mother" she said, and
now, cannot talk to you about it. l must
see my darling. Forgive me if seem hard to
you"
She passed out of the room, and entered the
dear and silent presence. She did not see
Bruce Aire adorning the poor room With rare
flowers she saw nothing but the face that
had greeted her the first time. She found her,
self within its walls. She knelt down aud
looked long and lovingly, but without one
the peacegof God, and majestic beyond words
in its victorious repose She kissed one of the
unbound hands set free forever, and then she
said:
"Beloved, had promise to make, that yon
would have smiled upon, but you could not
stay to hear it. 1 will make it now, and you
can smile on it from heaven. As truly as
gave up all in the past for you, SO do give up
all that might be mine in the future, for GOO.
will become one of those women you 30 non
ored, who corsecrate their lives to the service
of religion, and all that 1 accomplish shall be
of your creating"
sound like gasping sob arrested her ear;
she looked up and saw Bruce standing before
her, pale, stricken, speechless .
''You heard Bruce she said gently; well,
dear do not mind, and it is kind of you to be
here"
"Oh, Constance, is it true7 Have you given
me up forever? Is your love deadf'
"Dead!" she echoed softly "no, hope the
prayer of my love will yet bring you to find
| what have found.'
"But will you never be minei No duty calls
you now, and surely you will let me protect
you from the evils of the future"
"a mighter arm is stretched out to protect
me, dear, and barrier has arisen betweed us
that only God caR remove. Nay" seeing that
he was about to speak, 81 know what You
would say, but oh Bruce, since that first fare
we'll of ours, the whole world has changed to
me, and could not be your wife, believing as
1 do now. With the memory of my fathers
martyred lot could not marry, where knew
for myself, and could I set that knowledge
aside, it would be impossible for me to resist
Gods call to higher mission. But" and her
face seemed to him in that moment to have ave
dead one mutely looking upon the solemn in
terview, 81 say farewell in this sacred presence,
with complete trust that God will grant the
prayer of my future, and we will meet where
there can be no parting"
| He took her hand.
"Ohv' he said bitterly, "heaven is far off.
and life, without you, is near and dark-dark1,
| Heaven came to darker life than yours"
and shs pointed with the dsepgaged hand to
| the beloved dead. "God will reveal it to you
some day, and do not turn aray, but let it enter
, tn
The tone held O prophecy the pointing
finger beckoned to the future the face he
adored was as that of one inspired. With the
| memory of these stamped indellbly on his
| heart he uttered his farewell, q feeling enter
ing with the word that the being he had in
spired to call his own was as far above him as
| heaven is above earth.
1t might have been year afterwards that
Mrs Grundy gave g utterance EnH.S to the following
, Aots .s6o voH. voH.Ssaow, my dear, if had been Mrs
HonSbfon fo or Bruce Are's father, would have
mt constance and Br1Sese,i ,ipto separate lunatie
asylums. If shoplifting came Ponteiy cat,eo
kleptom ania, and treated as disessi 1871 ooeou !,
!. ing the dupe of priestcraft certainly euto
claim the title of insanity. Such match as /
, would have been! and what a future that in
;, fatuated girl gave up! On , at she would, a. IL
= her mother; and think of her buried in con
: vent! Then Bruce Aire going to join the Cath
q olic Church, and be disinherited therefor! On
Z | of our greatest lions gone! Should not wonde
L , to hear of his becoming Romish priest Thes
, Catholics outdo the world in cunning There
!, the Truth of Itw
d And " my DEAR" uttering an appropriat
o wall over the defunct lion, turned for comfor
~ to the discussion of the latest scandal.
> AS for us, my reader, let us contemplate
- later phase of the Truth of 1t (for Mrs. Grund
7 said all this just ten years ago. and then la
= it aside as q story told.
10 In the celebrated Academy of st. l. the1
% is a thronged study hall, where bright heat
. of those who are to be oHr coming women lea
>, eagerly forward to listen to " eloquent lii
., that utter in polished language" soul inspirir
" lectures, by which their future is to be Shape
~ " for noble ends. And she, who draws the
y hearts to God, was once Constance Maxwe
20 % Her proud intellect and her strong mind ha'
o. found tasks worthy of both.
= "Then, with name banded about in Il
n papers of the day, as a thing to mock at,
cities to wondering and nnbelieviug audience
IN who listen from curiosity, and criticize u
~ ~ sparingly; who ridicule without fail, and co
y tenn in the cores of their hearts. This is NJ
-, Houghton, celebrated alike for her talent as
q queen of the PLATFORM" and her scurrilo
a abuse of the meek dwellers in converts, W,
ot have found the high mission of woman
cS which she seeks in wrong paths.
W Bruce Aire, well, the Truth Of 1t compels t
~ record that he is not "Romish prizes
Nevertheless, he has permitted "heaven"
"enter into" his life, by becoming Cathol