The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-08
b us against the Union If they were moro

with us against the Union if they were moro
| Irish than anything elsc-'
: "They have got to be more Christian than
anything else, and how can they counsel such
bloodshed 10 must come before the revelation
you are dresmipg of can be brought about !
Conpor, dear, by making you look through
one of my windows into Cynthes ORoone's
miserable little worst-working world. My
other windows ut least look ont towa,ds fresh
air and sunshine, and real mirth and forget
fnlness." TO-.
"Euglish letters, of course"
ayes; have been besitating whether to
keep them to myself or not, and have decid.
ed on trying their effect on you frat, knowing
you have power OF getting oas OF mortihoa-
tions that Pelham laoks."
she is engaged. I suspected something Of tho
kind when saw the thick letter.. Whist fool
has she taken mp With Oue Of the Pelhsm
Coart fools; IN engage. JOY 60 witn ~ onen them
me this year"
81 sm glad you can take it SO. am afraid
1t will 20 much harder with Pelham; but.
Connor your Imagination has jumped too far.
Il does not amount to an announcements Of an
engagement. have only hints, and the most
significant don't come from Lesbis herself, but
Marmaduks 60 you see his charity at leaet lie
must acquit him there
"Marmadukel We'll, used to think he was
q mule, obstinate enough to get what he
wanted henoeforth I write him down an as"
'.An ass for taking what you were dying to
get very little while agof"
Daily"
sob; Con. what 8 fatterer you are, making
believe that you value me above Lesbis and
her great fortune"
"Cupid has not q bsndsge thick enough to
hide from me how You two compare together
81 am glad you are 80 free of Cupid, If Pei.
ham were the Same should say it was very
ttn fn kspdl lrv -nln
to Msrmaduke, though the Pelham Court peo-
Pile will never believe am not secretly morti-
"The news comes from Pelham Couit. then"
"Yes, it has been growing in Mary's and
Louisa's letters all the summer, and now
1t is full blown. The Pelbams spent the
spring in London, and began to make much of
Leebis as soon as she arrived there Lady Pei
ham presented her at the last drawing room.
She had some difficulty in persusding Mr..
Thornley, to think it necessary, but ct last he
the occasion was window into another world
indeed. 1t reached me just when Cousin Anne
was in the worst of the fever. I carried it
about in my pocket for days. thinking would
administer it to Pelham as an an ti-love potion,
but never had the heart There is o dread
fol look Of heartache in his face alwaye, now.
he lie different from you. Connor: He feels
does not believe in the possibility of washing
it out in blood. / could not give him side
blow just then. After ell, there was nothing
really heart-rending in Leabia being pleased
with her pearls and her oonquests, only it was
perhaps bad time to write about them to u.s."
"Other conquests besides Marmsduke"
eyes, there was baronet refused"
81 should have thought he would have done
better than Marmaduke, having title to be-
"she did not take him, however and it is
possible the Pelhams have been deceiviBg
full of your cousin Marmsduke,' but there is Q
sentence at the end about Whitscliffs that
cannot fancy new lover greatly liking to
read"
tWhere is she nowW
"On visit to Pelham Court with her brother
and sister. Both my letters Of this morning
criptlons of picnics and shooting parties. 1
won't infict it all on you, bat you must hear
one sentence from Mary Pelhem's epistle, 1t is
60 Observation-Disclosures. "ldon't know, dear
tumn as We are having this year. Since our
cousins John Thornley, aud Lesbia Maynard
came to us. it has been quite delightful. Duke
said the other day it put him in mind OF the
time when you all came from Ireland and spent
an aut nmn with us, for We making just
the same excursions to show the country to
Lesbia is dear little thing, and we are all i'm
mensely taken with her. think told You in
my last letter how well she and Duke get on
together; it is quite joke, in all ouraittle ex-
cursiona, how those two are invariably found
side by side, and how they forget to look at
the landscapes We have come to see, they are
30 absorbed in each others conversation. am
sure, dear Ellen, that you will not feel hurt at
my saying that we sisters think all the better
Of her for being able to appreciate dear Duke.
She never complains Of being doll in his
company-indeed, she could not well do 30. for
he is in delightful spirits again now and We
all 30 enjoy seeing bim happy. Mamma and
often say to each other that the events of this
year ought to teach us how wrong it is to
grieve when disappointments come to good
people like Marmaduke; one may be always
sure that something much better than what
they had wished for is in store for them"
There now, is not that we'll put shoald you
have given Mary Pelham credit for being able
to concoct snch pointed sentencef"
"The nasty little epitefnl cat ! am right !
glad to remember that never lost sn opport- |
unity of Sggravating her when was with her. |
It was time well spent"
"All the letter is not as bad ss that sentence; |
there is o good deal of sympathy squeezed into |
the crossing, and, as told you, twenty pounds |
from Uncle Charles. It will do great way in |
buying comforts for the fever stricken" |
1--WE should not need to be fed by charity If |
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