The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

| on 1t that softened her and changed her indIg
| nat on into q smile of wonder.
| The farawsy eyes were so clearly not look
iug at anything near, but watching the i'm
| aginsry marok of great systems and the results
of long ages, with suoh q strange unindividua
interest. that she could not bring out the
charge of heartlesspess that was on her lips
| It was q sort of enthusiasm that changed the
grey, Insignificant face, and quick en- ed it with
| life and power an incompreh ensible enthus-
iaem for some ideal far out of her sight, yet its
| existence gave her glimpse into q mood she
| could sympsthizs with better than with the
| hard seDse the words professed. The sentence
she did bring ont instead of the indignant re-
proof that had risen to her lips, was perhaps
| more disgusting than the reproof would have
been to her companion.
"You are young yet" Anne said. with deep
Sigh !; "if you live TO be old as am, and by
| chance get in pterested in the lives and troubles
of the poor people you reside among-I think
You could-you will'learn to be glad to take
the most practical way that comes to hand of
rescuing them from present degradation and
suffering, and you will leave remote conse-
auences to take their chance"
Il shall know that the remote conse auences
mUst come when they are due. i shall not ex-
peot by any Efforts Of mine to bring about re-
suits which economical and social laws are
dead az ainst."
"You speak about laws as if they were
alive" cried Anne horrible, heartless things
i don't believe in them, believe in God, and
don't think He is ever dead against any
honest effort to do good to our fellow Great
ures, even if it be somewhat mistaken one,
He will take care that some good, physical or
moral or spiritual comes out of it somehow"
Mr.. Thornley, shrugged his shoulders bis
face changed to it's ordinary grey quietude,
and the light-ef- enthusiasm dted-out.- Here
were questions brought up which he had de-
cided did not concern him. into the discussion
of which he absolutely and always refused to
be drawn. 1t was his turn now to wish to
call back his words, regretting the pearls of
wisdom he had cast away. What was the use
of Explaining principles to woman, since
women never can be touched by anything be-
You'd the range of their own experience, and
will not coneent to consider the most practical
question without intruding subtleties of spec
ulation or emotion that can only lead astray 7
There was strange lightin in Aune's eyes too
ss she raised them p from her valley beyond
it's protecting hills re the golden gates of the
sunset, the sight of which troubled him, and
woke that unreasonable yearning in his heart
kept down habitually at the cost of so much
pain. He would rot be tempted on to such
dangerous ground by any one.
When Anne had done gazing skyward and
walked on, he stopped and gathered handful
Of eyebright and sun n'dews and for the rest of
nothing else. Anne walked by his side silent
and annoyed she had felt rather than seen
the shrHg, and if there was thing specially
repugnant to her, it was the being obliged to
discourse or listen TO discourse on Indifferent
subjects with full heart.
Miss OFlaherty's hospitality obliged her to
bring her visitors into the lodge to take coffee
before they set ont on their long ride home !;
aud just they were saying good bye, Miss
Thornley, contrved by almost her last words
to pat crown on all the petty offences of the
day. She stopped before a portrait of Ellen
Daily that hung in the en- trance hail.
"Ah, look here, John,' she said this is
evidently another likeness of the girl whose
portrait used to hang over the chimney-piece in
the library at Castle DAILY" -
Used to hang cried Anne sharply.
yes, the library is one of the rooms we are
occupying now, and Mr.. DAILY kindly begged
US to make any changes in them that we found
c01VPnient. WAare pariiGUlRr tn
ture and comfort, John and l, but we have
lived abroad good deal at various times, and
welike the pictures about us to be good If
have eny at all. We ventured 10 dethrone the
portrait, which was rather an eycsore, and sub
stituted on engraving we brought with us
But assure yoa the painting is safe car
ried it up TO dry attic, and covered it over
carefully myself"
Mr. Thornley, cana up and peered with half
closed eyes at the canvas. Eyes, certainly, it
ss faeEtrait es the sapeFee bat FATHER
The picture at Castle DAILY is thought to be
particularly well painted hy every one about
here" remarked Anne stifay.
Young Mr.. O'Roone seemed to admire it
immensely, remember" said Miss Thornley,,
with smile at her brother that prote sted
against their being bound by the taste of any
quarrel with John for taking it down, but we
wanted good light for our engraving, and it
did not occur to as that we wero committing
enormity."
said 1--WE" and ''us" with tones and looks of
perfect mutual understanding and confident
sympathy, such AS can only exist between peo-
pie Of thoroughly copgenia charaotere who
have lived long together, and which have q
tendency to make outsders feel sonnet what put
out of court. Anne jlst then thought their
manners detest36le.
When the door closed hind the brother
aud sister she went back 10 do homage before
her daclipgs portrait, sud atone 20 it for the
slight pnt npon it's counterpart. The coloring
might be q little gaudy, the attitude wooden,
but what could people be made of who found
even an imperfect representation of that face
an eyesore.
The artist had really managed to pnt some
thing of the true expression into the pictured
eyes, or Anne looked till she conjnred it up
Wstful, tender, gay, eager and tlmid all at
once, dozen different and contradictory quail
titles beaming out their ex preston through the
souls wide-open windows, blending into a
look, spell, charm, that if it had not power
to "wile fish out of the water, and water out
of a stone." might surely have won tolerance,
if not admiration, from the most supercious
cf English hearts. That the Thornleys conld
resist it, settled their place forever in Anne's
estimation.