The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-02-04
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FROM THE ORIGINAL FLEMIsH or
HENDRIX CONSCIENCE.
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One morning early, in the middle Of IL
| second week, Thys was sitting by the hPenlaee
at the Abbey farm with good tire bufutfss -
| the hearth. With the help Of q pair Of tonGS q
was broiling piece Of meat upon the GOALS, sliz
| ping it every now and then in plate OF mu3fta.
butter; in the embsrs on one side OF the haafaN
stood steaming IN earSheEn pfpkin.
The piece of meat cooked, Thys Get u on TIE
table and devoured 1t with an intense axpEea.
sion Of gluttonous satisfaction upon HE cola1-
tenauce. Then he put plato and bread aWa1
| in the cupboard, carefully wiped his monSE
and sgain took bis seat beside the Are. TheGG
the boiling pot, ho fetched mp . qaansisy ~
green herbs, eyed them for moment, tkru19
them back again, and presently commenced h
soliloquy: 80
"a dainty looking MEGA this Of Uncle Jn5Ss
and much good may IL do hims--As II oRaf
stomach was TO DO chester In fAie Silly weSl q
wonder what ass ~ VIA wrote the hteeE u
which he hnds ali these Ane thinea! Chloc1z8
and water-cresSes to pot young heah npcn Cd
bones must 90 out and gather some WAsSSss
cress, that the folks may take noticel An
scurvy. grass too; that will parity his hi01a
for himl Misery upon his very aeath-bea
However, that's no affair of mine; Ym me-
here to thwart him: If he 10 determinsd % ~
the experiment OF living without eating, why.
With sil my heart, and good luck 90 him
didn't think at 6rst he could have held out 50
long; but he has as many lives as . eat"
Here he paused for o moment, bent his eyen
fxedly upon the Are, and sank away deep laie
a reveTie, daring which his couD tsnnncs grade
ally dArkened more and more. Then again 10
resumed his Mutterinss:
Yes, he has 30 many lives &c q cat. And Vyh0
knows how long the lamp may flicker on yoe
I'm regularly made q fool Of, and after ali Pas
selling the skin before the fox is caught. Thio
burgOGtaster and the rector had been aalEing
him after Uncle Jan at the vestEy.DeetInG.
And then this COMPOUNDED woman that ROar
about everywhere abusing me and setting al
mat aba ana al al
that's she cause of the folks hating sne so. This
morning did but step ont round the corner ~
get soue ehiccory-nOt twenty PAGES from The
house: there she stood watching me from bas
hind the coppice. done know, but caaiS
help feeling as If some miscbisf would come %
ne one day or another through that beggegs
TomAn. If the buTgomaster and she reneor
we're to come here and want TO see Uncle JAM
we will that leaves me everything, tbatb
ure enough; but that they know IS well a. I,
md who can tell what they might say 20 chs
night be talking him Overland pHttinH things
nto his head
This last r. 4ction evidently threw him iato
violent trePidRnOB. For o while he set on II
Hence, his Iead resting on his hand, then be-
IAN again:
Cost what it may, no one must come at
i'm As IL Is, he already begins 70 think un-
aBly about what hes been doing, and 10 81.
Vays talking about Cecilia. IL Woaldn't taks
ouch TO make the old fool change his mind.
What to dot Something must, to stop ths
o quite alone with the old man that pate
thoughts into their heads. II Cecilia was kat
till here they wouldn't concern themselves
bout what became Of the old aklndlnt; bas
hat would be stupid iek:-to lock the esd
INTO the cupboard 70 tsko care Of che meaes
md yet the only way 20 keep things smooth
nth the rector end the b0TgomR0ter and sho
est Of the busy bodies IL TO have come OnohGae
D the hOUso with ue,-eom0 one, it might bos
nder the pretonoe Of doing odd Jobs ard e..
a1dS, that DoedR't see the old man after ali,
Is, 60 IL must be; Of two dangers take tie
'asti Then, who's it to bef that's anOthss
He bethOnght himself moment, shook HE
cad with an air Of annoyance, aud then re-
'pSed into thought again, till at last . smile
sgan slowly TO steal over bis counteDAnca.
"A capital ideaP be exclaimed, IL only I
nartish, though; for promises must be kept,
y the simpletons. And then, too, fhefSa
anger in it-fair and softly; don't let's b
.Sh, but think it well over frat. Well, I
Ould think Uncle Jsb's scurvy-Rrass would
} done by this time. Now, then, let me give
eDemy is better than . stupid
lend. Perhaps, after all, the beggar-woman
III 90 into the thing more readily than /
ney. Bat come, I'll take tho old man his
ass."
He took the pot from fl the ere, and, passing
{ side door and along q dark passage,
lched tho foot Of a staircase, which be pro-
cd TO mount. Then again came q long paB-
gs, at the epd Of which be AZ last entered tha
1m occupied by Uncle Jan.
There lay the unhappy old man, stEstohed
on q bed the filthy state of which vvoaiR
We made . beRgar turn away from it with
gust. wasted with long sieknosg can apahIuE
1med left Of him bat skin and bun1 H
eelrs were totally fallen il, 90 Aa En'tc1 o.
play thna 80 marx the Qo1 loeK - Q laff