The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

second spring viii hardly pass without her
! fate being settled one way or another =
hardly know what 20 wish"
Can yos answer il - your conscience, 20
wish that sry tunsu creature yon have Q
regsrd for, should lie condemned to Marin .,
duEs Pslham's coupspiouship for the rest OF
her uloria lifef'
He is . dull. poor fellow, certainly; wss
observing him ST his mothers coEreTsd:ioHe
possible brother, For t so entire hours and q
half l calculated, he remained leaning with
his back against 9 certain spot in the wall,
and never speaking TO anyone
There was no harm in that should have
comported myself in precisely the same man
ner If had been let alone
"Of course you were not, people know you
can talk, and seek you oot. However, do
not believe that Marmsduke Is more silent
than his cousin, Pelham DAILY and l used
sometimes to think that his silence and
reserve were rath sr attractions 20 Lesbia than
otherwise 1t piqued her curiosity
II. 10 not the silence complain of, bat the
speech-and there is this essential diferen ce
between the cousins-1ourg Days rematks 8,
the purpose Msrmsdake's never. i have
even known 8 spark of actual Irish Wit to
have sen struck oct from young DAILY, on due
applic alton of steal to his nint-thst Is to ssy,
whea his sister talks to him; bot this other
one is pure pudding stone-yon might hammer
forever and never get light
But do you suppose Lesbia sees the differ
euce : She does not valoe it'stlecs as We
d."
"The wiser she-:t is a miserable idol tc
"My dear John, at leas. wais till Mrs. Joseph
Maynard has gone back to Whiteclitte, before
you reverse your worship. l cant profess ev en-
TO tolerate folly while she is with u.s."
"Is the coast clear of her now 1-csn stay
balf An hour here with you in safety =
Most fortunately she has gone to call or
friend whom she does not consider grand
not be back till twelve. To have you for ali
an hours talk will be rarely satisfactory bs
ginning 70 my day"
II don't know that am going to talk, ! fee
and stand with my back to the wall in silence
for half an hour"
"You could do that as well down stairs
However, as You have established yourself II
that niche of the window recess, put your head
a little further back still, and look out L made
discovery when l was watering the piant'
yesterday, and l want you TO share it. Can
you see out far-across the .rees, over tae
opposite house-tops, to the s'opipg roofs o.
some buildings o q back street beyondf There
| is an extra tall one, With three high twisty
| chimneys, and four attic windowe, with dsrh
| blue jalousies, all in q row"
What of them 7"
Don't they bring recoI!ections to yonl
mindf knew them again in minute, and
| went out last evening to make sure. The
back street is Spring street. aud those attic
rooms with the blue jalocsies, the apartme Mt!
| where we lived once for eighteen months. The
| last year you were at Westminster, when yor
|
full of prizes, and poor mother cried so bitterly
| because she had nothing but bread and cheese
to give you that day for dinner"
| Let me see it was the year before She
died. 1t is six teen years ago, then"
'It feels like century. l remember usec
| to make ( atom Square my way whenever
up to the fowery balconies of the grsnd
houses, AID wondering what the people were
like who lived inside. was esking mysel
yest srday how should have felt if wise wo
Of thaG Pirry faLy To-
ing in those days, had shown me through on
| of the windows a vision of ourselves as We ar
now. inhabitiug this room"
"Very much disappointed, should say, i
your castles in the air of that period at al
| equalled those with which l seasoned 10!
bread and cheese dinners. l never doubted IL
those days thai prosperity would come soone
or later, and Imagined her wit fsrer nc
| than sb g has shown me yet"
| II believe l would have been some hat dis
| gust sd if had seen N! self as look now; TO
q girls castles in the air generally presuppc -
q little Lesutifcstion, let her have in sobe
earnest such poor opinion OF her owl
| looks; but. John, l think should have beel
| satisfied with what the years have done 70
| you if could have seen it then and under
stood as do now. TIE outside circumstances
the riches and display, we two have very little
to do with, and shall soon give up, but all ths
really graces our position, all the consld eratIoI
worth having, is what you have wop. don
think that even when you first began to fee
your own powers and be ambitious in thos
| W6Stml n5Ler Gays Wnen your nESL HLLie Ltl
umphs were won, that you could have expected
greater recognition and literary success thai
the two last years have brought you. Reason
ably, or unreasonably, you could hardly hav
expected more"
no, but expected something different from
| what the reality of this sort of success prove
to be. It's the character of the work itself
sm diegusts I'd with-my own powers, as yo
call them-not what they have bought me.
believe It is the experience OF those thre
years active work in Ireland that makes boo
work, now have come back to il. seem tame
can n o longer, as / once did, consider it th
most glorious occupation in the world TO pu
words adiciously togtt 7er."
"As If that was what you do bnt, however
dare say it is best for you to be dissatisfe
With your o~a 6oings. 1 sm sure would no
have you
BoT before the little Drop OF Light
That dIElsyed men Call praise and glory here.
"It's very dim little drop in my case
o., John, that's ambition, not humility"
Or perhaps nothing more dignifsd than il
hunor and dIsconteut."
viii you own at once candidly that the dit
con tent has a cause in the shape of a lette
from Conuemara slnoog tast bundle in you
hand -