The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-07

Charles Pelham keeps sending you suoh fat
tering letters, and 30 many OF our relations 10
England who had forgotten rs. are claiming
our acquaintance and making fuss."
"In tact, now. when have the honor OF being
guardian to Miss Maynard and her eight
thonssnd year. Well. / suppose zee are not
certainly don't reveal any high. flown delicaoy
that one need be afraid Of bruising. You had
better run away now, for am busy and
here comes Bride, In time to help me to look
over the bnilder's estimate of repairs once
more. Where are those papers. Bride"
"Peibam DAILY carried them off rather in O
pet. thought. You told him, last night,
there was no use in going further into them,
thought Of inhabitiDg Eagles Edge: Have
ge1 heard anything to alter your opinion y
S'Eo--but-"
"Ah. John, you don't find your second fam
lily of bankrupt orphans 30 easy to manage as
your frst |; and, must say, you don't show
Yourself SO competent to the task as you did
of old. There was no hesitation for MS when
o dlsagreeable thing had to be done. Steady,
right-about- -face-dragons, IL dragons are in To %
way-march into their mouths such were
the ordera you gave Ms in the old times. There
was what 1. for one, liked. and what carried
Ms through"
"If q big boy will wear little coat, and q
little boy big coat, and neither Of the fools
but am obliged to let each take his way"
"You viii let the Days take their way
abont the big house, then Z"
81 don't see where the money for the neces-
sary repairs is to come from but presume
1t will have to be found, if tney won't live
anywhere else. There 10 no dou bt, I suppose,
that all the family wish to live at Eagles
Edge" .!g,. n,,u ...,,. D., ,,,v 49,, u,.,..
left-to please her eldest son, and to live in q
house that belonged to her husband. Poor
woman she never would let him have any
peace in his ewn houses while he lived, and,
now be has gone. che seems disposed to make
Q religion of being miserable hersef in the
precise spot where she would not allow him to
be happy"
ain Mrs. Daly's case, you cannot label the
sentiment 'Irisb,' and dismiss it forth with as
unworthy of consideration"
people would be content to make their friends
happy while they have them, and when they
Forget them Comfortably"
"No mourn them in q reasonable way"
"I don't think, If were dead, I should OBJ
jeot to be mourned as Mr.. Daily 10 mourned by
some. However, that is nothing to us. Eagles
Edge 10 five miles distant from Castle Daily,
little Of them this winter, If they set tie there.
SO much the better for u.s."
"Ah, you are beginning to see, then, that I
more easily to what has happsnad aimee yoo
left home yesterday. The Days have taken
their departure"
Left the house without waiting for my re-
turn-you can't mean itP
Il do. Pelham spoke 10 me early this morn
Ing of his mothers wish TO leave Castle Daily
at once. He said he had been telling her of
the difficulties You saw in the way of their re-
movsl to Eagle'S Edge, and that, since they
could not have houae of their own immedi-
Ately, she had decided on accepting an invita-
tion from Anne oFlsherty to stay at the Hol-
THAT child Lssbia has been giving herself
airs. then"
"No, / don't think so. She may long some
here bat she has too much good feeling and
affection for the Ds!ys to chow them glimpse
of such q wish. 1t IVES just spurt of unpro-
voksd pride on the part OF young Dsl3; and, by
the way, John, If you think you are going to
rnle him with o rod Of iron, and turn aim out
after any pattern you please, fancy you will
6nd yourself miataken--Hs is-EeFy- proud
and since he cannot prevent our living in his
house, he has made mp his mind TO be very
defiant and haughty towards us. You should
have seen him standing there, on the hearth
rug, making known his intentions to me, and
pointedly Ignoring Lesbis. who sat all the
time oroucbed on q footstool, with screen be-
fore her face, very much disposed to pout at
not being referred to, but too frightened to
the signs of sore hurt feeling that peeped out
in all he said. It's not an agreeable experience
for anyone to come down in the world, and the
kind of people who won't be content wish
b6AiuB 5uoE A1Al III OuO BOOu onOCfb Dub I1ubO
be forever casting themselves down from
imaginary heights and breaking their bones
over again, certainly make the most of it."
Il wish you had dissusded them from leav.
ing 90 hastily. How was I to guess that my
innocent proposition of the semi-detached villa
would be looked on as an insnlt, and put them
ell to aightr
81 sAid what could; but Miss Daily excused
their haste by putting it on her mothers dread
of excitement, and fear that crowd from the
villages round would collect to see them drive
away, II tho time of their departure was
known long beforehand. 1 suppose two or
three hundred people oSu howl louder than
fifty, or should cay we did not gain much by
our haste. thought had been cautious, and
allowed no suspicion of what wae Afoot to get
abroad. Yet, no sooner was the carriage or
dered, than three or four of the servants dart
ed off full speed to carry the tidings to all the
cabins near, and by the time the preparations
we're made, and Mrs. DAILY ready to start, the
front garden, from the steps to the gate, was
crowded with people On the watch. The in
slant the front door opened, and Mrs Daily and
Ellen appeared, they fell on their knees John,
L never cav such q sight-the men swayiug
themselves backwards aud for Yards, and
bowling and wringing their hands as wildly
0s the women, all in q moment and in the
midet Of the weeping, one fellow spraug to mis-