The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-06-10
NUMBER IL.
THE LADY
NEVILLE COURT,
Il TALE OF THE TIMES.
Continued.)
CHAPTER XIX.

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| CHAPTER XIX,
Spring had passed away, and tho spmu.,
roses were beginning to bloom In the Neviiie
Court gardens. Aud not only the rosss ,n,s me
many other bright and besutifal flowers Re-
siass Ss ionOkeefe's horticultural enterprisos
Maude loved to tell him that she beiievsS her
garden was fast growing as beautiful AZ anv-
tning ont OF f1iryland could possibly be. Al
on ooseiner @ sne 9io house, both within and with.
lot Its mistress; ''apd suoh mistress Zoo ~
l Mrs. Barton whispered to herself, ss sho
r es Of mH ana dFearfanged the new silk hang
sor IL mad been decided by Mr. Neville and
certain other of Maude's more responsible re-
ia.ves hn. snas the young heiress should take mp
October, immediately after her twentv.erst
birthday. Dearly would Maude have wiaheS
10 10 nave remained at the Glebe House, among
the friends she loved so we'll bat 'Vox popuii
yox Deli said her uncle and the yonnc
heiress, who understood how deeply her men,
PIE lopgsa 5 to see her in the old place. and how
would contribute to bring back into GSs srN
actlon the long stagnated blood of her iarSe
ssRhnerttanoe, sh bowed her head in resienstioI.
Sfterwsrds Io"9ver. To- ever raised II q few min0ses-'
That as she must have q cbaperone. th AZ obnns.
erone should be Mrs. Carew. Only too n,sassd
10 10. glye i've her pleasure. Mr. Neville. for once ia
oeiyed an answer from Mrs. CnreW aimost ~
return OF post, joyfuly oonsenting TO eive ~
Co,Gt own ;es mouse IN town and reede st Neville
capacity of friend end protectresa or AZ SSaS
iovea TO say' summing the two sweet oa3oes in
one, az mother. VS~' ~
IN Mssnwhie saw terrific storm had burst, ragged,
and oeen dispersed in Ballycross. The docfor'
as ne had promised Maude, had prenaroS thS
documents regarding COlquhouD. and. inst -
tion e nst efPeo'ed, the latter, having no expia-
IiouS 10 oner' had had recoorse to Yeorimtna-
tione and invectives against the autbor al the
inquiry. IL argued no little for the dooto,is
prudence that he had left no point uDRuarded.
nor used any word OF opprobrium or hsrsbneSS
10 Yards MS adversary. On the coptrarv ho
had tempered every expressioa be had nseS m
ssssatiug the bare truths with the most perfect
Christian charity. At first Colouhonn baS
seemed inclined to fight it out for the
sided with him bat ho soon changed
his mInd' and wrote them instead q letter of in
'ommer quarter. Perhaps it suddenly strnck
him that his triumph, If gained, would onIV
sSI uIl OCTOBER perhapS, that under tho new
having.
Meanwhile, too, the search after truth CON.
.inued and morning after morning, and
liRnt AIter night, haude read, Draved 1nd
'ondered over her little books No oos Sn.t Snu
'eeted her' not even Fanny, or, what wsa nor
apS sun stranger, not even the doctor After
'9iq ,,'l qunouh resignation be had, at Mr.. Me-
lies earnest request, been Commissioners nv
re trustees 10 choose new agent for the es-
Ate' and business connected with this brouahr
im oiInOSt every uSy TO the Globo House. R1k
Though, in discussing the suitabilitv Of
ariouE applicants for the Office, religion Uas
ften br"nght upon the tGpis, so fealSuslv aid
nsGt lsoae guata ner secret that, much as he had
eslred to interest her in the subject he naver
II moment suspected that he had succeeded
/ doing SO except as q passing thonrht
nee, indeed, when he oonnlaiped of NJ
arbaF9s interference with Tim her lin oor-
linIy qulVered, bat only with the sama
mount Of indignation that any act Of mean-
ess or bigotry would have eicited, AraIn
hon he spoke of Father DonOvan's untiring
al and devotion, tears stood in her evon bnS
ut such tears he remembered had stood
Iere on st. Pstrioks day, when he h0d
avn picture that had thrown Father Done
IN and her uncle into contrast, and 30 thov
Id no tales.
1t was, perhaps, an unwise course on Mauds's
'rt thus to reject the one kindly hand that
nged to point the way, the one kindly voice
aT could SO ably have expiained aGav r6s
ubts and dtfHoulties that tbronRed her
th. Bot from the very beginning Maudo
resolved that NO human voice or intellect
ould influence her judgment or bias her
II; ana, dimculE though ut times her rsso-
ion was 20 keep, she kept it 20 the end. She.
weVeF, by no means Intended 10 Co lask for
~. On the contrary, she fully determined
It IL in the end she found herself called To
Catholic Church, she would then cop6da
secret to the doctor, and ask him to advise
how to proceed next, For Mnnde had
nly resolved not to make Father Donoyan
Instrument Of her reconciliation 90 the
1rch, mnch as bis kindness end gentleness
won her heart tho very first tine che HAD
hfSa. The ono bright epos in efs r,aIesrT
se1 her eat1aad "a - afsn kirsfts ~aS- 3ie'-,.
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