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

= child would be welc ,ms 70 i. it we're TWEEN
v. times as muoh II ,hal not be my fault If o.
ID is not received like o princess 81 you see
Ie have n world Of business to do for ! must
N back for St. PAtrick's eve, or Mr. Neville vi
It never forgive me. l bad better start to no
y row. Come and dine with me again this ds
u werk, and you shall hear the result of NJ
b Journey"
J. Tho priest took his leave. and for nearly q
!. hour after his departure o Aears sat before b
q Gre. Lost in q reVrris. When at length be ros
from his seat and walked towards bis s0rger.
j. | there was n look Of stern resolve upon hi
/. | countensuoA, such rs one aeldnm saw there
. evident from q few whispered words tina
J. escaped his Ii ps ut the came time. Conld tbs
o agent, as he sat at that moment in bia dinRy
6 ofice in Dublin examining. IKE boattc
spider the various mesbes of hrs ever-exteud
! ing veb-conld he have sesn that glance and
heard those words be could not have answered
more opportunely than be did.
30, q! 30 Miss Neville goes TO uncle Ed ward
the first week in April, does che, aud stops a
week st Dublin on the way Thank you. Miss
Neville-.he very one that wanted; only do
that. and my for nne's made. defy the " hole
world to work Ned Coiqohoun out where be
has once worked himself in!
CHAPTER v.
| the Irish Channel have missed one Il oe sight
at least, and that is the sight of q real genuine
1r'sh tnrf-fre. 1t would really pay London.
or to travel all the way from his grand city to
it sheds from It's glowing breast, what . light
from it's flaming crest, what shower of ash.s
falls. like molten gold. into the pit below, to
be there transformed 20 fakes and feathers of
silver! How ie laughs and sparkles and Kisses
and craokles. as though calling all the world
together to rejoice in its warmth, the merriest
FIRE sliyei
IT, WAS Just such fire as this that wss bnrn-
ing one cold evening in March in the draw
iDg-r"om of the Gebe House. Ballyo GROSS and
to judge by the way in which it twnkled on
he mil and hn old Ill
cabinets, putting the very waxIights 70
shame, 1t highly approved of it's quarters. No
wonder, for That drawing room VAS certainly |
a very comfortable apartment. with it's 1icn
messy carpet aud it's heavy silk curtains. so
carefully wadded that not the tinirst Whit of
q blast could creep tbroulh. Aud very ele-
giant wthsl. with il. tables loaded with tri-
umphs of art and objrcts Of rirtu. its ormolu
aod III arg 1eteIia; it's Indian rarIeties and Chi.
nese eccentr cities its chairs and coaches tnat
met you ut every turn, each more comcal and
lnaint than the last but all the softest and
most lnxuricus when you came to Sit down
D pom them that ever the genius of upholsterer
isv,sed. What fine old paintings adorned
The walls, and what an amount of fancy work,
,xot!cs, books, aud ornaments of every kind
we're heaped togsthe to put their falryliks
finishing touch to The whole!
Truly nothing was wanting in the Glebe
House drawing room that could contribute
o either comfort convenience; and the
our persons assembled therein evidently
new how to appreciate the luxury that sur.
ounded them Mr.. Neville himselflooked the ,
cry personi foation of ease, 49, reclining al. ,
most at foil length In newly-in ted read.
og"chsir, with his lamp on little table be-
ide him, he turned over parcel of new scien-
'ho books just received from London. Close
y tho hre, in the very cusest corner of the
oom, in IuXn6ious sewipg-chair, sat Miss ,
barbara Neville, lady whose dignity of mien
as only surpassed by her severity OF counte.
ance and sharpness of voice. She was knit
ing with exemplary diligence, only coca. | I
locally pan ing 10 soold her nephew, Harry, $
1r looking up from his books, or to assure 8
er niece, on the au tborty of DIR. Watts, that 9
'Atan hnds some mischief still for idle hands t
do !
Aud yet, although her aunps exhortation l
liRht seem 20 imply r. fact to the contrary, q
Mss tanny Neville was ordinarily avery busy
tile body. Every baz .ar that had been held
! the neighborhood, in auy orthodox cause r
hateoeVer, sinoe she could hold q needle, the | q
oor OF the parish, and many of her own sim. I
10 dresses could have amply attosted tho dill q
enee OF those little white fiogeTs Bat to- | q
'Rhe she neither worked at lace nor em. | ,
robbery, children's froeks nor old womeu's {
ettioosts, but she and her little white poodle {
estied instead In the cushions of a large arm | {
hair that she bad ORA wn quite cloee to her {
'ther's elbow. And in spite of aunt Bsrba-
A's stric'nres, they nestled there STILL the
30 taking long loving looks At her father as !
o pacEered his forehead over email print and &
ltricate iagrsms. aud Looloo giaucIug slyIy
aunt Barbara from under his woolly locks g
ing time before be had found more proper ,
: genseel.lookiDg person to scrutintse than t
les Neville, az she eat at her ne phe VS. FIRE. h
dc in the seat OF hia poor gentle dead wife. /
ith her feet nestling in the white silky h
inges OF the ~tD'"r hesrtrug experimenting a
10 reverence's household, IN an aging bis child. .
N, and arranging bis parish matters at one .
"a the same tims With a Versatility of genius IL
orthy of C9.ar .
Papa, think it il almost time for YOU to a
art for the station. If Mande's train arrives n
eight" said Fanny, gently laying her hand y
her fathers arm. r
" What. my deArf what is itf' he asked. a
arting: Then recovering himself and re- e
emberinR whore he was, who was spaakin1, h
ID what was said, he oontirued, No. not A
u, my dear child 1t is not mere than half an | O
'urS drive to the station, aud it is hardly n r.
larter past seven yet !" and after sJrokinv N
Y hair foudly, and PStting L,oloo, he return 4
TO his books. =
Fanny sighed impAtiently.
never knew Rn evening so long as this 81
ems to be in my life, suppose it il bsoause Il
Am 80 anxious TO see Maude. wonder what a.
9 will to llkeI" -
= wonder what my father would have said ;,
had lolled about like that when was n n
Il OF seventeen" said sharp voice from the o.
her side of the 6rep 90. n
Fanny moved signify but a sweet bright b,
ne sole over the top of the new book aud q
-ured the little maiden that one father at uI