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

haTmIeSs at her feet. Whence came tn
er grscsf Was it in answer to q mother's pray
pe bresthed long ago, or to hundreds of other
II that for years had risen for her night an
d morning among her native hillsf
r The more the young girl saw Of her relative
.. tho less she loved them, and gratitude for tn
a atten ions they and their friends lavished q DO
2 her was the ouly tie that bouud her to then
> She felt constrained and miserable; for in n
cue instance were their wsys her ways. He
9 Ritualism soc kept q profound secret, kno win
I that the discovery of it wonld expose Mrs
1 Csrew rather than herself to q storm of re
I proaohes. and che patiently "sat under" men
Sunday after Sunder. who, although mem ber
Of her own church, taught the exact opposir {,
(snd that 90 doctrines of vital importapc-) Il
all she bad learned 10 believe. How ths coulC
> happen In the one Church" Msude was pDz
: cd TO Know, and accordingly wrote to 'Fsth.l
North" on the subject The answer she re
| ceived bad evidently cost the reverend gentle
man q power of paper and trouble seeisg that
! be proved entirely TO his own satisfaction, and
10 accordance with his o~n IDEAS of logic, that
one ana one do NOT make two, but one. Bot
| as the answer only puzzled Msude more than
| ever, she laid 1t reverenLly aside, as something
to DO admired Father than understood, and
solved the question on trust. Meanwhile the
| poor child sighed tor the long. desired momeut
of her emancipation; and although, for the
| cake OF her entertainers, she never manifested
the WEAKNESS she felt, often when she smiled
most brightly her heart was heaviest.
| At last the day arrived, and that even a
| fortnight earlier than Msude had anticipseed
Her departure had been fixed for the begin
her Aunt's husband, who was to have taken
her TO ireland, was suddenly seized with govt.
As his seiz Tres were sometimes of long durs-
ton, maude saw no alternative but to make up
her mind to remain in London at least the half
OF another season, W hen suddenly an old friend
of her fathers one morning Unexpectedly pre-
sented himself He informed her that he was
obliged to proceed to Galway the very next
day, aud offered to take charge of her If she
could get ready upon SO short o notice. That
very afternoon letter was dispatched to
Bailycross, and the next morning Maude and
her maid met the old gentleman at Euston
square tee latter by no means as d eli Z hted as
her mistress at exchanging the charms oil L IN
don life Tor the retirement and monotoDy Of
the country.
After q pleasant journey our travellers ar
rived AZ =, quiet little station on he elm
gle line OF rall that trAVerses, at that time
traVersed, CopDaught; and where they weIe
force d TO take up their quarters in a miserable
little waiting room, crowded with packages
amt pare Is of all shapes and sizes, for very
uncle Ed He arrived at last and with
many EXPLANATIONS of delight at meeting his |
niece, and many expressions of gratitude to the |
cd gentleman for his care of her relieved the |
lat, or of his Charge. The Invitation to the
Gle6e House, with which the thanks were ac |
was declined on the plea of urgent |
business; and i've minutes later Maude and |
her nncle were on their way over a road, all |
hills and valleys, to Ballycross.
1t was not until the porter was heaving the
last box on the cart that had been sent for the
the luggsge-label. He WAS an old servant of |
Sir Morcar, and Immediately sixnifed his de-
light by tossing his hat into the air-an action !
" hioh, although perfectly unintelligibie to
them, was Immediately initiated by posse of
gossoons outside, who had been watchipg the
carIiuse start, and who accompanied il BIZ a
yell that could not have failed 10 have startled
The horses bad they been within sarshot which
they were not.
But jerry, clover as he thought himself was
not the hrst TO make that same discovery. A
oassenger mad arrived in the same tain as the
ravelsrs and the instant he caught sight of
'hem began to make himself exceedingly
'ficions IN rendering them "a very great dsaI of
Ia unnecessary assistance, part of which had con-
listed In abusing the station master and his
Aesistant in the most outrageous manner To
ngraLlAte hiuiself still more, he had ipaisted
On Joining In the search for small box mistaid
Tor The moment; and had re- warded himself for
us trouble, by taking peep at the lid-5he
'ne end of all his attentions. 1t was only
glance, but it was more than suffi
,lent; and as Mr.. Coiq1houn walked to his
odgng that night he blessed his stars over
md over again, and counted himself "a lucky
nan. He should get the start IN her good
traces st any rate, for he had that very morn
ng met DR.. O'Mears in Dublin. How little
Aaude suspected, as she drove along in the 81
ence and darkness of the mountain landso spe, 4
he very different reception that was being 80 |
planned for her, at that same
by being of whose very existence
The was ignorantl
Whatever degree of excellence Harry Neville
lad intended to imply W hen he had q bbed his t
10 Wy arrived cousin "a jolly girl' Fanny was t
oily prepared to admit It, for che thought as I
daude sat beside her she bai never seen any
me half so charming before. Aud yet she r
would have been puzzled to say whether that
harm lurked most in face, figure or STYLE
Perhaps in all three, perhaps u neither; bot
ather in a certain natural grace that old Erin n
owes to lavish on her dsug6 here and there
n every rank of life and which she hsd-be- S
towed with no sparing hand on Maude Ne B
lille AS may we'll be imagined the cousins
ad plenty 90 tell and talk ABOUT; FANNY had
o many questions to ask, aud Maude so many
lessages 10 give, that neither of tuem knew =
7here to begin. For long time the converse.
'as very Joyous one, no Til one of Maude's
uestiOns touched q mournful KEY, aud they
eg"n 80 talk lovingly and sadly of poor Mrs 81
eVIlle's death, that had happened about
ear before, aud of how patiently aud piously Ar
er husband had borne his loss. Bat the sob | a,
set was still 30 trying to Fanny that Mauds =
'ished TO change 1t; and therefore inquired T
nat relation to tnem that very stiff IookinR y
ldIvidual in the drawing room might be, and
ow she came TO be located at the G sbe
.ouse Then Fanny told her how the post
ad one morning brought letter for her
ither from maiden aunt, Miss b Arbara Ne
lille, informing him that the said 81 ~ Neville
naing her long experience Onappreclated 10 u