The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-13

ion at once. The mother and sisters are MOI
| to know anything of the destination of the
too siren uously on the selling out. He himself
has what appears ID me singularly exagger
atfd idea of Lesbia's good sense, and is will
Iug to leave the decision of his future course
in her hands il she accepts him.
Bot his feelings! Did it strike you from
what he said, that be was properly in love
with hor 7"
"On that point decline to give an opinion
His sc mration of her good sense implies q
considerable amount of infatuaton yet on
the other hand, he questioned me so anxiously
on the LIKELIHOOD of her having another at
tGchmen II that half suspected he was search
ing about for excuse for not Offering him
self Lesba willfad oct wha. he means by q
happy instinct, l trust Such intricaoies are
beyond me-"
~ wonder why he did not speak to her to-
dsy."-.-
"He is coming here tomorrow morning; l
begged for the delay. / want to prepare the
child-to warn her not to be hurried into a
decsion because people are expecting it of her. "
"But If the decision is q wise one, why
shonld not the expectations of older heads
have due weight suspect that some of the
happiest marriages are settled so. / hope
am not very worldly minded. bat when l
think of the tranquil safe life that being taken
into such a worthy family az the Pelhsms will
secure to Lesbia. and compare 1t with the agi-
tatiop and risk that an attachment to such q
man as Connor DAILY would inevitably bring,
can't help feeling that q little gentle per-
su8sion may be allowable"
How much you women think of safety, as
if mere freedom from emotion were the great
boon 10 be asked of life !-securs eating and
drinking, and sleeping and dressing, life of
nDbrcben routine! Is that s1ch desirable
fate in your eyes that you would force it on
your frieudsi p
Bride came close aud put her hands on his
shoulders. Its very cowardly, acknowl-
edge: but WON sn don't reach my age without
having suffered enough from excess of emotion
to have learned to sum up nearly all that ia
desirable as to earthly feelings in the words,
"rest and peace" l suppose that is why he
blessed invitation, "Come unt Ne, and will
give you rest" sounds more inviting to women
than to most men,"
II don't know about that The rest of full
sat:sfact tion is very ffsreut thing, remem-
Der, from the rest of acquiescence in medic
Gritty"
II believe my wishes for Lesbia are fathless.
Yet think there must be some ether gronnd
for the difference of our opinions on this matter.
agsir 81 Captain Pelham. He ID by no means
such fool you are fond OF making him out
to be-"
perhaps am preiudiced."
Don't be ngry with me for asking, but did
you not at time suspect he was in love
With Ellen Daily"
"Yes | did"
"You despise him for transferring his fec
tiors from her II Lesbia
Not at all. should only be too gla il
were certain that the transfer were genuine.
l suppose some instinct enables one to divine
what is in another persons mind when one
has u strong feeling in common. L sst night
Captain Pelham sat next me in the Speakers
Gallery while the debate on the Treason-Fel.
-osr B+H for Ireland was going on. He is not
much given to politics, and was disposed to
wonder at the absorbed attention he gave to
the speeches. till the fierce look in his eyes
when the advocates for extreme measures
were on their feet z 7de me understand that
the writer's Of psurrectonary poems, whom
the supporters of the bill were propc sing to
treat like felous, were to him all repre- sented
by the person of DARCY ODonpell that it
was the man " bo had stolen away Ellen Days
heart whom he hoped that nights work
would render liable to transportation for life
in punishment for chance words"
Aud you, John-you were not reading your
own feelings in hisf'
well, no. think may say certainly not.
I have no doubt am jnst as jealous and re-
vengeful as he is, but it would be poor result
Of all ones Struggles if at my age ore could
not see anything beyond the qualification Of
ones own feelings in question of national in
terest, or if one had not got further than the
savage instinct Of wanting to secure woman's
affections by knocking ones rivals right and
left out of the way"
But you think Captain Pelham capable of
cherishing snch feelings while he iB processing
an attachment to poor little Lesbia I"
Not of cherishing them, but of carrying
them alive in his heart without knowing they
are there. Lesbia has been thrown in his way,
and he is allowing himself to be Influenced, as
pectations of him that is why wish to warn
her"
II will not say another word against it; but
don't speak this evening. Let her have good
nights rest after her fstiguiDg day. That is
her step in the passage. Let us be talking of
last nights debate when she comes in. So
You were 10 the House, were you, John, when
Mr.. Smith O'Brien openly advocated insurrcc,
tion in lrelsnd"
Yes, and hear yet the yels and hoo;inss
that greeted his wild words. If his we're o
possible enterprse-if by some strange chance
it were to su cceed, q nd the revolution 10 Ire.
land were to become established fact inau-
gurating n new order of things-I can imagine
some future historian of revolutions taking
pleasure in describing the moment when he
stood up, with hardly sympsthiser near him,
to face the indignation and ridicule of the en-
tire bonse, while he quietly and slowly ex-
pressed his belief in the right of Irishmen to
tight for liberty, to live on their own SOIL and
to possese themselves Of arms at moment /
when their rulers told them they were prepar-
ed to crush expression of opinion, not by argu-
ment, but by force"
81 do believe you we're q symPathisng lis-
tener."
"No, am not believer in revolutions, and