The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-29

y of the tram.
he Harry accompanied his father. and anotb,
I dismal hour Of silence eDsued. 10 psss tt
be- time, Fanny took up book after book br
Ill never had authors seemed dry and st"pi
r. before, and she very soon returned to her OF
~ ixinsl occupation Of s'rOking Looloo's ear
y At lass wheels were heard approaching tb
house. and Fanny, unceremon iously thrown
n down her Woolly pet, hsw behind the curtain
8 and peeped out into the night.
9 "A lady should always be distinguish abb
y BY her dignity and rePose Of manner, and tina
9 is what Fanny Neville will never be- sax
}. aunt Barbara, evidently addressing hersel
= to l. oolOO, Is there was nobody else to Iist en-
"Sne has come, Fanny, she has coI.e I" cr!ef
3 Harry, throwing open the DRAWN groom dool
, With suoh glee thsr the ornaments on u table
near il jingle "and she's suchs q jolly girlr
he added copfdentialy; .'Sou will like her SOP
We'll am sure, SIR began aunt Barbara
but further speech was prevented By Mr. Ne
Your amt Barbara. MAad, my dear" said
Mr.. Neville. come wh at ceremoDionsly.
ID .nds looked mp in no small astopisb ment
at the gaunt form before her bot recei we'd very
courteously the tips of the two fingers
with which Mss Barbara presented her, and
TIE very 10y kiss that tina. lady imprinted on
her forehead. This frigid ceremony being
performed. Fanny sprsng for yard to take her
| torn, aud the next nome ut the cousins were
| locked in esch others arms. After a host of
'estions from Harry about Der journey, and
another truly parental kiss from her uncle,
whose mild eyes seemed to overflow with hap
piness at having her with him, Maude was
se'z-d npon by Fanny and hurried away, no
lens rolens, to the pretty room that had ue N
prepared for her There another glor ous
| peat fire was burning, aud soou as Maude
was Invested of her travelling dress and her
maid, Mrs. WateoD, dismissed TO make friends
with the houst keeper and aston.sh her with
her stories of Loddou life, the cous ne sat own
before the merry blaz, and talked away unite
as merrily, awaiting the summons to tie.
While the two happy girls revel in their n
strained chatter, we will, with the reaGer's
kind permission, briefy-lss. we should weary !
him or her with another retrospection-ve-y |
bri. hy sketch our heroine's some W az uneven
B'ddy,s faithful arms to be consigned to the
care of Mrs. Carew.
In the ectlon of an iusructress for their
orphan charge, the Neville family had acted
with uncharacteristic wisdom for, except in |
the matter of religion. in WHOM she only acted
according to her lights. Mrs. Carew was all
that could be- desired. During the whole of
the fourteen years that Mauds had rema al n eL
under her charge, sometimes In LONDON, soms-
times IN Germany, sometimes IN France, Mrs.
Carew had watched over her with q tenderness
truly maternal, while Maude's affection for
her adopted mother knew no bounds Mrs.
Carow was entlewoman by birth, possessing
high talents and attainments and still higher
principles, and she had spared no pains either
with the moral or mental culture of her Lupil
At eighteen Maude Neville was a hiphi y-ac-
com plshed girl Jas amisble as she was clever
and as simple hearted as she was bright. Some
VII at iuolined to romance perhsps, but endow-
I'D with common sense more than Sufficient
to keep her romantic tendencies in heck.
At the period that the Neviles had trust
their little relative to Mrs Carew that LADY,
was, and had been for years, extremely Low
Church' in her opinions, in fact an ultra
Vangeiical' A. may be supposed, she was
deeply shocked at the i'm ession that RIddv's
religious training had already made on the
plant mind of her young charge, and immedi-
Ately set to work to effAce it with q peril
1aolty and zeal worthy OF better cause. SO
'tren uously did she la Dor, and with such good
Eject, that as Maud grew to anhood her
'ariiesG aSso;iatioas seemed to be in conuec- |
ION with Bible-cIssses, Snndsy-schools, and
the very remembrance of {
3iddy and the OMearas had faded from her q
mind. q
But as time went on, a change came over q
drs. CArew's op mons. The dreaded and | g
arely been 'rrActariausm' of her youth sradp- i
Illy developed itself int the more modern aud
more widely-spread form of Ritualsm; and by |
\ concaten alton of events that is not peces-
'ary to narrate here, Mrs.. Carew after passing
,hrough the usual gradations, ended by be-
coming an ultra R,tuslst.' AS matter of {
course, Maude became an ultra Rttualist too
and the young lady, who not long before had
defended evening communion and read the
Days Of LaUd aloud at Dorcas. N lettings now 8
talked Of High celebration and Low cslebra. |
',on' went to confession, and embroidered
'toles, slippers, and sermon cases for delicate
md fashionable yoong priest by the dozen. t
But whatever change or changes their reli- e
yiOus opinions underwent during the fourteen 1
,HPpy years that Mrs. Carew and Maude spent
ogeJher, not q shadow of variation ever dis
nr ood the sweet bond OF harmony that o Aisted
between them. And yet one thought, and L
hat very bitter one. for years marred the +
happiness Of both, and that was the CON
cionsnees that an hour of parting must coon q
+ or later cIme; and on the very day that '
daude was eighteen the blow fell. 1t came o
n she form OF letter from her mole Ed
VGrd, upoa whom, a. her fathers executor r
evolved the office of guardian to herself Ia Il
ns~er to Maude'S earnest solicitations he had il
lready suffered her to remain with Mrs. q
'areW twelve months longer than the orr einal v
greement; but the time he said, had row h
xpired : and in the name of all the Nsyilles g.
% was peremptOry. 'Maude must go into II
ociety.' Long as she had ex peoted it, she re- v
eiVed this letter much as she would have u
pceiyed the warrant for her execution: for q
iaude loved simplicity; and the very idea of D
he parade and osten CRtIon of fashionable life
1as distasteful to her. =
few days later a second letter arrived b
bis time from ono of her aurts-and informed il
he young glrl that the family considered il | "
xpedirut Ghat she should spend the next two "
care among her relatives IN England, passing II
20 two London seasons NJ tho town-re.ideuce h.
her two most Influential aunts. At the end II
+ that time she was to return to Ireland and hi
ass the mouths that wond intervene before FL
or coming of age with the family OF her unoIe vi
dwArd THIS was the one sunny spot in the IL
rORramme: for let her aohool her haart a.;