The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-16

inhabitsnts Of ths renovsted, stately room,
bat always seeing herself moving about viii
dignity among . throDg Of guests, and Elle
ssIps iiDd ot assoniss%eSs at sisDSs the cSaDSs
Other figures glided In and ont emopg tn
throng, bot she would not quite look ut then
or decide why they were there. She was jus
conscious OF some other pre- sence besides th
gay furniture that lent halo to the scene
bnt IL was something underlined, long way of
@ from any possibility of being put into words
dreamers In suoh separated worlds. Ellen wal
! the first to break silence.
There, 1t has gone. have seen the sun sci
oas sas1n s.w him clint
dayr
like o mad creature ever since IL was light
said tsbia. little maliciously.
with all that, have not seen all the shapes
that Lacy -Core has taken since sunrise
changes of color on the side of the rsvipe that
/ have not caught, and that may never come
again, for no two days are alike here"
II don't understand caring 80 very much for
not enre that 1t is quite right; at least, I know
Aunt Maynard thinks it silly.h
"My dear Leebis!"
eyes, You are surprised to hear me quoting
her. ! am surprised myself, for don't forget
how tires / used to think her sayings o
week ego. However, things and people look
different when one has left them behind, and
Ellen, just look down into the wer-garden.
Your mother and Bride are still pacisg up and
down the broad walk, and Bride 10 telling your
mother about me-"
"About youf"
"Why, Ellen. you surely have not forgotten
already what told you at Whiteoliffs about
my fortune!"
i4I am afraid have been very unsympsthiz--
ing, but you told mo ros to speak Of it again,
and waited to hear how it was to be-what
your brother and sister agreed to do about it."
80. About bon dividing il: do yo1 psen mean Ellen. il
feel how difficult it would be for me to propose
suoh o plan to- them. They don't care for
money, but they don't look upon q great for.
what to do with all in q minute. II had
spoken of giving it mp to John he would have
called me impractical, and should have felt
was annoying him."
"Your own brother ?"
"But have not lived with my brother since
was q child; and he is so much older than I
me- as wonderfully old, shat brother of yours,
BAbettA.n
Indeed. no; I beg your pardon he is under
yiWhat does it matter what people call them |
seivesf That's q stupid way Of reckoning age, |
when some people can crowd years and years |
Of living into day or two. That is what has |
to your brother and sister,"
How do you knowp
"By looking"
81 am afraid you don't like them, then and |
yet thought you seemed very much pleased |
when John mentioned his having stood at the |
top of hill looking down into Miss O'Flaher-
Sy's valley 30 long one dsy the he quite forgot |
;he business that had brought him there."
II was very much surprised, Just 10 one is |
g whom one picks up q bit Of o dead branch,
Ind finds that there are buds upon il; and that |
t is not SO dead ne it looks"
"John is not bit graver or older-looking
han o man of HE age ought to be-"
"Well, he is an Englishman, and why should
aot he be old and grave If he likesf I'll not
'ure. Therel he aud papa have come out of
The house together. their business talk over ct |
ast, hope. Oh. what q mighty stretch and |
Vawni Papa has thrown off every grain of
trouble and care with that, and means to en-
oy the evening; but look, your brother puts
ais hand on his arm and begins talking again;
loes not wish to do, and if there were twenty
ilver moons beginning to show in the sky in
'tead of that one, be would go on at it all the
o the rescue. won't have papa defrauded
# his evening walk for any Englishmsn's per-
,ipacity.n
Ellen found it an easier task than she
expected to carry her point. She had many q
sthers company, and looked for q sufficiently
ong opposition to give her pleasant sense of
'ictocy.
Mr.. Thornley, was o different sort of antag-
mist, however, from those she had been used
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