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

Through 1t speak the light Of Love-"
Anne's first glance at Mr.. Daly's face when
he entered her room, confirmed her fear that he
| had come to announce o serious mishap.
"Is anybody i'll at Castle Dslyf Have you
been really made anxious by Connor's dis
appearance 7" she asked eagerly.
| "Oh, no Ellen knew he was here, and told
her mother 80. He has behaved i'll. and am
| very angry with him. have some bad news
for him too, that will punish him more than
my displeasure; but all that will keep: +
want some talk with you nrst, IL it 10 possible
| to get quarter of an hours co versation here
without half the Inhabitants of the Hollow
| for audience"
81 have secured that we shall not be inter-
rupted!"
And you can actually spare me the time ="
81 think You neod not ask that"
But with all these prelimin aries the CONVEX
sation was long in beginning.
Mr. DAILY wandered restlessly about the
room for considerable time, pRusinR before
| the numerous cabinets and little tables to take
mp and seem to examine carefully the various
ornaments all OF home manufacture, that we've
| scattered about
"Cousin Anne" he began abruptly, ut last,
"you were q wise woman to refuse to marry
me when asked you about this time twenty
years ago"
Cousin Dermot," she answered, "you were
q foolish boy twenty years ago, when you ssk-
Cd "a woman older than yourself, whom You did
not love, to marry you"
What makes you say did not love youf 1
thought did and l am sure swore 1t often
enough"
"Bat knew you did not, and you know it
now; so if you will % back to look at old
times, take care to see them in their true light,
not more promising than they were"
~ should have loved you il You had listened
to 1 wonder, If you could have foreseen
the mess have made of my life, whether you
would have taken me out OF compassion"
mo, should not had too much respect
for You and for myself, Dermot, TO marry You
managing your own life, and it wonid not
have answered IL had"
"If yow had ever come to despise me, Anne,
1t would have been for my real sins, not for
impulses that are too much bound up in the
heart of me ever to be put of. Just blame IL
whole some it is the dull, silent, dead weight
OF opposition to ones whole naturs that oruSh-
es all the life ont and leaves one q dead, stupid
log, to be drifted abont by the tide Of events"
MAY I ask one question Are you talking
of q remediable trouble Ifnot, is there any
use in looking at 1t :"
'Is there any use in crying out when one 10
in great pain May not one allow once self
at rare intervals the luxury of Rrumbling3
You have never had greet pain in your life,
Anne"
80 everyone tells mo-" said Anne, smiI-
"Aud claim a right to inact grumbli on
you, seeing that you refused to give me the
chanoe of having nothing to grnmble about.
There was another expectation had Of you,
Anne, that you failed me in."
II how did fail you !"
"When brought my young wife home here
to meet trusted to you to make her path
sm Doth for her. thought you would instiI
your magic of governing into her, and teach
her TO win the people and tolerate their ways,
a thing she has never yet been able to bring
herself to do. | even fancied that, II misun.
derstandipgs should arise between ne (such
different natures as we are), might trust TO
your old knowledge of me to interpret me to
her, and gloss over my faults with the Rlamor
OF your sisterly indulgence. pictured you
two living together as Sisters"
at WAS an extremely masculine fancy, Der
mot and If y ou bad really wished to carry it
out, you should not have let her see me for the
6rst time when was dressed in q red cloak Of
native mSnufaGture, and standing up to my
ankles in q bog with half the population ofthe
Hollow vociferatiDR round me She has never
the shook of that Introduction"
"I wanted her to see how you brought order
ont of disorder, and managed the upmRnBRe-
able. She has the came ends in view aS yOn
have, and ss sbe and fail, and you succeed,
surely abe might let os learn OF you"
mo, no, my ends are long way from hers,
and she would not be satisfied to come Ot them
BY my means. We are all children together in
the Hollow, you see, DermOt. Some WisS man
has said that an unmarried woman, however
old she may be- always remains sOmething ofA
child; and 10 my case it answers very we'll.
can be content 10 coax and 8oold and role dss-
my folio Children without expect
ing too much from them OF being discouraged
BY their outbFeaks and VsgaEies. IL II
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