The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-09-10

10 "Well, small one I"
10 You'll never tell mother how-how shabl
d "Never~
"or that did the work, and only pretend,
d tabout the servant"
!, "or that didu't 60 out riding at all, ar
! seldom took a walk. for fear that she wou
ring and no one would answer"
"Or, above all-Now, Miles, know YOU
laugh, but it's got to be said"
That you sent away poor Laurence with
, broken heart because you wouldn't give u
sister, never, never!"
But with face all aglow, "you nigh
think, Miles, if-f a change came in our for
tunes that it would only be right to tell mothe
all these things-and know you admire them
put she'd never, never think them anythin,
but deceltful, and, indeed, only can speak o
| them In my prayers when am kueelinp befor
deceitful too"
"of the kind" said Miles, in an exceedinpl,
shaky tone, "on which the recording anSe
| drops q tear, and blots it out forever that ia
don't admit"
never tell. Now go and take a smoke go
look over the Rerie,o, which came last night. OF
course, and III be fixing up few little thi n ps
here, and II mother rings I'll call you"
80 he departed to another room, this time a
very bare one, with scarcely a vestige of com
fort, had lt not been for the presence of an
easy chair, with rest for writing and reading q
attached, and pair of slippers at one of its
four csstored feet. This he stood regarding
silently, TIL tears began to gather in his kind
anc veivety-bro"n eyes, and these were about
attraction which SIR Isaac Newton discovered,
when be ruthiessly dashed them away with
the back of his hand, saying:
!, Ue6 out OF 5hat! How can yon come from
Lhe eyes q. such monster of deprayity
Cad! feit ike an escaped convict, TO pat it
very mildly, when the poor little thing was
talking about deceit Deceit, heavens! Be-
hold this for mere sampled ~
He took a beautiful pipe meerscbanm With
'iiVer mountlnks aud amber mouth piece and
tlacing thereln morsel of tobacco set it on
IRE ana let lts modicum of smoke pervade the
.partment which it did quite as com pletely as
ne had heen smoking tor an hour. Then he
proceeded to manufacture out of paper q nile
II asnes ief6 carelessly on the table, in order to
urther heighten the effect.
" And this is smoking, and oh grand easv
b air, purchased for unworthy me, by the poor
aaa ttle thing doing without her one luxury of
ou, oh Reriew, what wisdom do 1 Gull from
our delusive cover"
He took up package directed to bimself in
larked. pow
What wisdom of self f-denial, what depth of
ontentment, all drawn from the simple heart
hioh fears its loftiest acts might hold de-
From all of which the reader will infer that
the advertisement held anything to Miles
ester's advantage, or, by right of knship
1yGhlng TO mis- mothers or sisters advantage, |
three deserved it.
he now proceeded to uncover yelled easel. |
I'd satdown to work upon a picture which t
presented figure of a transcendently lovely t
male blindfolded, and groping for a crown f
gems lying just at her feet but which she
inly tried to reach. q
- In the dark" he said, tinge of bitterness
Yelling in his usually cheerful tones, land b
lemyself, you can never find the crown prone |
gerly as you may! Fitting subject for an
tist, battied as have been !' q
So he vas Miles Lester, and an unsuccessful .
his advantage You can easily infer ali
at. {
. Therefore l dovise and bequeath to said
les Lester, all my property without reserve
him, however, to follow the
ggestlon co contalntd in a paper, which my ex-
ltors Will hand him after his accession to nv
ate"
These were the words at which Miles Lester
speechless, as being contained in the will
! the late William Noble" of moneyed fame.
word az TO the reason of the " therefore" -
an explanation of this something so yery n
to his advantage. Merely an ac- -
, ,ate description Of Mles;L sntecedeuts
tne most probable way of finding his
t was after be had been installed as proprie
OF the late William Mobiles estate that the C
him. 1t said
The property to which you, unexpectedly
yourself, will succeed, is given TO you as an
OF tardy justice for a wrong done your
her in times long past. 1t is given at the
IRE OF oDe who might have possessed 1t her o
I, but for her high sense of honor. This is Oe
niece, Lucy Westfort, whom l brought mn
my own child, and whom I would have made
solo heiress, but who, finding out from nv
a rawlings during sickness that had been
!ty OF this wrong, prevailed on me to make sP
) Will in your favor. l leave her nothing,
ause she has persuaded me l really have no
lt to give away what became mine by fraud
revenge, but suggest that you give her, AZ
our own free will and from yoar own sense w
nstlce, enough to keep her from any bitter
ggle for Livelihood. And this do with
her knowledge"
he man who had done without smoking, III
constructed delusive magazines to make
" poor little thing" think he was enjoying
1t he could not afford to get, sat with tears T
Dpng on the paper. Then he handed it to ado
Invalid, lying watching him eagerly. ~
Explain the wrong, mother" he said "was lL Put
great as to require all his property to re- IN IN
for itp stri
Aye, and ten thousand times his property. Gov
then it would not be paid" whi
Mother" com
Can money bring back life for q moment Yu frop
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