The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24

was rendered TO the memory of the two wbc
had lat,ly reigued supreme over the district
"Hs preteuds that helped him." she woulG
say in conclusion, "but l am sure don't kno
how he can imagine such thing, for all ever
did was t. sit beside him while he considered
exactly how poor Connor woold have ordered
all il he had been master here int aad of us
aud then he aud agreed together to carry ont
what we believed would have been CounoI's
wishes. Pelham does not object, he once
would have done, to the nthusiasm the peo pie
feel for him now, because they bsiieve he 80 f.
fered for the cause. Since he has been in priso n
| WITH some of the boys and has got to know them
| thoroughly be can put up with their warm ex-
pres sons of thanks and gratitude, and no
longer thinks it humbug He is even at the bot
| having given him back their allegiance so
readily and being as glad they all are, tb 1T
he is coming back to Castle DAILY to reign over
| them as glad. it really seems, as they would
have been if bis father had come to life again,
| or the revolution bad succeeded, and Conpor
| bad got the estate back for his own. John
talking about him as il he had both suffered
for the cause, and given hmselfup though in.
nooent, to save his brother because he could
not have done the two things The people
about here, however, will always go on saying
| that he did both. and if they mean that dou BILE
praise and gratitude are due to him, think
! myself that someho W, in spite of John, their
way of understanding his conduct must be the
! right one."
The satisfaotion felt by the neigh hborhood in
the funeral observances with which Miss
rest, though it did something to-soothe the
wild grief of the inhabitants of Good Peoples
Hollow, did not hV any means overshadow
heir anxiety for L lens recovery. This John
Thornley, had t, acknowledge to himself when
he went among the crowd assembled in and
about the tent where Peter Lynch's wake was
held. He had come out in q mood of restless
mieery, seeking not 80 much for distraction as
for that bitter tonic of seff-pity " hica he fan.
oied would be afforded by the sight or other
peoples forgetfolness contrastsd with his own
bafr,, tafx No ,vaS
medicine different from that he had come to
seek the balm of sympst by pergadpg and
true, that its subtle soothing could not but
creep to the heat most resolved to hug its
sorrow in solitude
Bride Thornley,, FOR whose speedy retarn
John had entreatsd, arrived at the Hollow the
hours after her entrance into the house was
installed in full charge of the sick-room.
Order, regularitJ and calm seemed to 'low
her stops, and from that day the invalid began
to mend Bride would not have permit 5ed q
wake to take place within few yards of the
room where her patient lay sick of nervous
fever, and she could not conceal the contempt
she felt fIr the excuses which John and Pelham
urged in excuse of their compliance After o
trihing disagreement, however. on that score,
everything went smoothly. Mrs. Daily, who
was of too anxious q temperament to make 3
good sick nurse, was th ankful to yisd the chit
management of the sck-room to Brides skill
fol hands. and Ellen, who had never in her
days of health songht Brides company, turned |
to her in her suffering and weak mess with an !
absolute clinging dependence that laid a
strong hold on Brides generous nature, and |
banisned exery shade of jealousy or grudging
from her heart for ever. AS day by day little |
tokens of amendment in the PATIENTS state ap- |
peared, aud were atteibuted by DR.. Lynch to
Miss Tnornley's careful nursing, fresh links !
were woven bet weeu these two, and when
Bride dressed Ellen the first day of her
leaving her room she did not feel as if it were
the old rival whom she had distrusted and
been tempted.to envy, whose golden hair she
wit Af. re- hut kbar
some altogether new creature whose charms
and whose manifold sweet -esses were in some
sort posst ssion of her own that conld hardly
be rightly appreciated by anyone but herself. |
1t had not come into her previous experience
to be brought into close intimacy with per.
son TO whom expressions of affection, and ten.
tsneously and folio we'd feeling as necessarily
as breathing does being; aud after the
first surprise she could not deny that this
gracious warmth of nature " az pleas ant to her
and would be missed as the unclouded sunshine
of southern lauds is m 5ed by those who re-
turn to colder climates. She began to dread
the thought Of living ont of sight of the one
face that now always flushed with pleasure
when she came near, oct of reach of the hands
ever ready tt be stretched out towards her for
welcome or cares es, out of hearing of the voice
that in all the feebleness of sickness had been
so profGse in thanks for every little service
rendered. She did not know that she could
face the blank s1ch q loss would leave any
better than John could really faoe the es-
tran cement he always auticipa ting as the
end of their present engrossment in the D 4lys
SffIirs.
When Ellen was we'll enough to be left for
an hour Of an evening, 3 i 1e and John
used to pace mp and down the short garden
walk in front OF the house while Pelham and
L,sbia INDUCED in endless lovers talk in the
sheltered nook of the bridge head that had
baen the lovers corner since the bridge
was built. Then John always propounded t5e
same plan for their joint future lives which
Bride always listened to with the same con-
seriousness that he was longing ell the time for
her to dispute it's inevitableness, and the same
wonder at herself for the pain it ,st her to be
able to do 80 truthfully. They were to ain
few weeks longer in Ireland till Lesbia was
married, and till such arrangements could bs
made would enable Ellen Daily to manage
the ,od Peoples blow estate, left her by
Anne, adeantageously. Tnen they would take
their departure together and spend year or
so in foreign travel, out of the way of being
called upon to take part in events which the
next year would certainly bring, viz, the de-
paItIre OF Ellen to join Connor ard his friend
in America, or, if such a course conld be safely
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