The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-14

Give us this day our daily bread
| Paros nobis, Domino!
"woe woe to feel the lifeblood freeza-yTe-e
Fruitless!y. by slow degrees. .-.v.
oh, had We fallen on the plain
Parte nobls. Domino
"'Ther God is wroth our, our fGs%sn saHs Ssycv, ssy
Our Father, turn Thine irs away; way: .,ov,
Bid Thine angel cease to ssyy; ,.
Hear Thy stricken people say; say. non,ns,
! Before the isle is all hSTa STavss have msrcys
Arise, mysterious God; am and save save marcy,
But If the pestileptial
Must perish one by one,
| Parce nobls, Domino !"
"Ellen, I have called you three times aud
you have not answered me- Don's you see
that it is raining and that the drops are
beating in and drenching your face ana
your clotbesf No. don't shut the window-we
surely must hesr something of Pelham soon
but come out of the reach of the rain to the
j fire, and speak to me"
1 Ellen started. She had not felt the splash
| of the rain on her face, it was already so wet
with tears, or noticed the change that had
rapidly come oveRathe sky in the last honr
, and now ner conscience smote her for having
been SO engrossed by this poetry OF sorrow as
| was heR Immediate business to sootbe. w
The roorss might be made to look little
=
a fire at her mothers feet, and began to blow
up the peat ashes and skilfully pile fresh sods.
. !. till the long, low room was filled to its
furthts st corner with ftful, dancing light.
"It is not really SO late as it looks, she SAID.
a tThe darkness has come on q1ite suddenly;
:. was reading ten minutes ago. You have been
n | very good, dear mamma; you have not once
- | asked what O'Clock it wac; and now has not
y | the time passed more quickly than usual Are
oa oOs oOrious smile passed over Mrs. Days face
!. She had been making q great effort over her
q self to control her nervousness in order TO
. 3 spare her daughter, and now she 'would have
= sacrifice by making the admission Ellen's eyes
~ so ooaxingly asked but amiable eubterfqges
~ glad it has seemed short to you," was all she
is could bring herself to say. determined not
~ to disturb you when saw you were reading
~ ~ something that interested you, but of course
U Ue knew all the time how late it was growing"
ns Nc 'And have been selfish !; ought to have
hSughs OF y9n bs boo on - the road
Yeu are rewarded for he is close at hand, and
IL it is not really late"
y. sS the way to take Pelham's horse. He will bt
~ 10 wet through. And speak TO old Bridget about
,If getting his supper ready Immediately. heal
90 90 voices in the yard but surely Pelham cannot
W have brought visitors home with him when nc
Va knows we have nothing to give them to eat.
g !; CHAPTER XIII.
aS aS ireland of the Holy Islands
no Qroied round By 5y m,ssy Iiy highlasads' giIa16s
gh Valleys of the torrent argent
M n9 Since the trance of childhood bound me,
Ter More to me than any other
-, J. DARCY MAeHEE.
on The Daly establishment had been reduced
ly, since the beginning of the winter by the de
ed. fection of two English servants whom Mrs
ow DAILY had brou ght to the new house with her
to and who had been frightened away early il
,ur the year by the loneliness of Eagie's Edge Ant
sp- the miseries of the famine year. An anxiou
as consultation with Ellen over ways and mean
on, | had induced Pelham to persuade his mothe
by not to replace them till the times improved
red so that the kitchen regions were now onl
tn tenanted by one.old woman and girl and boy
? to over whose doings Ellen was obliged to exel
the cise active supervision to prevent her mother
in notions Of comfort and proP5iety sn from @ oe,D
her hasty incursion into the back premises befoI
the she opened the door to Pelham and the guest
,ass he was bringing with him called old Bridge
rao- from telling her beads in the chimney corne
.ezs and summoned Patsey and Kathleen from
ling Irritation in the w0sh-house, to attend to tt
,eat business of the evening Then she went to tt
ness front of the house and stood in the porcl
Ell holding up the stable lantern, by whose Ii igt
~ q Patsey had been doing his courtship, as be
the con to assist the visitors in their progress fro
be the yard where they had dismounted, throu9
>, if the struggling wind gtieved shrubs and up II
her broken path to the front door. The scene ha
lie q greatly changed since she had looked from I'll
her same spot in the morning. The cloud
ther which had lain then like silver ridges in Il
ind western sky, making q shining backgroul
had for the Maam Turks to rear their dark hea
nvy against, had now spread over the whole no
and zon, and, swooping down the sides of the hill
her filed the valley with wreaths of mist a.
,lled slsnting sheets of rain. 1t was like lookl
eep, down into q chaos of seetbiDg element
new smoke and water curded confusedly togeth
Il by while the solid features OF the landscs
heir loomed through, ghostlke and dim, as if th
say were taking uncertain shape for the hrst III
tical from the boiling cauldron of creation. Ell
srpe' was we'll used to the rapid changes of weatt
with peculiar to the country, and could see almC
her as much to admire in the mountains wh
they we're wrapt in rain as when they slept
k up peace with the sunshine on their heads.
ID to the effect q stranger's eyes of the mounts
the farm house seen in such q storm was not che
her ful.
the One pair of eyes on which the lighted pol
tears loomed as q goal, to be reached through
binding rain barrier, grew very dark and p
full as they looked, taking mental note of
the accessories Of the picture, and putt
them aside for future consideration, while th