The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-09

anything sbout my fortune TO your Drotneis
| or any one, just yeti had rather not speak
Of it again till after 1 have seen John and
| Bride"
! "I understand. You think you may possibly
or divide IL with him; and in that case you had
rather not have IL spoken of as you're now:
will be careful. i won't even be provoked to
give hint, If . person we know Of takes lib
critics, In verse, with your gowns again. On,
Bsbetta, how shall laugh st him for that by
"At him. But though you said You never
Afraid Of laus hing at Connorl do moth
Ing else but laugh st him all day long. L. not
be the boy one must laugh at and loveS There,
I hear bin opening his door softly uP. stairs.
that be may be ready to meet you accidentally
as you 60 ont and escort you homo"
''oh, no. NO; don't les him." cried Lesbia
whose cbapgeful faos had enddenly cloud cd
leasestop BIN; oould not bear to talk nonsense
to him to-day, have go much to think Of
went t9 get home quietly without any more
talk. do indeed"
"You shall, then, IL have to hold Connor
down in his chair only don't tire your poor
eyes with any more tears. Babetts, you really
must not be so rainy when yon get to Ireland
faces have to make sunshine. shall not let
yon do anything but laugh at Castle DAILY"
With hasty farewell Lesbis ran down
stairs and fed across the road. and up the
little garden path. not suffering herself TO
pause and take breath till che was sefe shut
into the attic bedroom she shared with Bobbie
and Waite. There was NO real occasion for 90
self for the energy of her flight, not knowing
that it was, in truth, from an unwefcome
Thought she YVES fleeing. The thought over:
took her, OF course, - soon as she stood still
and began to take of and fold awsy her walk.
ing dress. It came in the shape OF another OF
the revulsions of feeling from elation to de-
presaion, that had been uneAsily rocking her
poor little heart and brain for the last twenty
hA6 q
upon her-s bright haze Of e1ultation and
new conseq oence investing all her surround
ings, when che had stood before the glass, On
the Dalys and now she felt rs if she had had
. fall and was bruised and shaken by it,
Those verses that had been Ginning in her
head all the morning did not mean so very
much. after all They were no secret between
herself and one other person Ellen DAILY had
laughed over them, and Connor had written
them.
solved he had been her first friend and
champion, and certainly he wrote beautiful
verses only he need not have said the poorest
gown, poor was such an ugly word, and was
her worst, really and somehow the remark
seemed greater liberty in him than If it had
como from some one else whom she could bet
ter forgive for knowing always what she had
enough for her.
Then this fortune. Ellen DAILY had not
seemed to think oft es really hers ut all it had
struck her only as q thing to be given away at
once. just as IL its having been left to her did
not invest her with q lasting right in 1t. Les
bia stood still for nearly q quarter of an hour
mechanically smoothing crease out of her
bonnet string and turning this reflection over
and over in her mind.
With all her heart and soul she wished and
intended to be generous to John and Bride
but then she had thought of always going on
giving, lot of doing it once for all, and having
no power or part in the matter afterwards i;
becoming job ma little sister again, instead of
being she had begun to think herself,
Leebia Maynard bis ward, to whom hs was
faithful guardian. That hasty, utter giving
up of all at to John Thornley, looked
rather hst aud uninteresetng conclusion to
the bright dreams and hopes, that even in the
last twelve hours, she had begun to weave
rnDud herself.
been in her mind. but, as sns finally rolled mp
her bonnet strings, she decided with . sigh
thai The appaEtnIi for t[Ees4a- -ae~-he~eF
come tbs glorious chsnce of bsing wooed
poor and giving herseif rich,, WHOA had
seemed clurs to- her this morning Before
sne had oocs fHpoyinR how &c poes bly, might
have brep, the bell rang. and ne tad to leave
her bouuet on the table aud ron down breath
less to dinner.
CHAPTER xv.
Ellen did not flud @ good opportunity for
bringing for yard L-sbIa's request Till the
eveuirg when the family wero SIT sting together
sf..r d'uner aud che was SO conscious that
P,Ih an and CouDors eyes were turned upon
hsr the instant She introduced her friend's
nsm-iinfo the conversation, that she could not
bring Out her plan quito in the simple, uncon-
cerned manner abe had intended. Her eager
IVES ruouKh TO raise q host of little ner-
voUs scrupi.s and doubts AZ to the propriety of
tha arrangement in Mrs. Oaly's mind.
u the Fl sc place, who was Leebia MRypA ard,
aud how did Eney know that she was any re-
l~'ion tc the Me. and Mise Thornley, who were
no living at CsstIe Dslyf And again, what
proof had they thai ser brother and sieter
Hppr, we'd of Ter leaving her cousin, DR.. May
nA'd's housef Might they not be sbsttpg On
act "f rebelliOn against rightfal authority, II
thsy aided her sudden flight When Connor
and Ellen had exhausted themselves in vehS
ment explanations and assurances on these
points, came another difficulty, which Mrs.
Daily, by way Of giving turn to the oonver-
sation, and possibly saving herself from
second avalanche of indignant wordO, referred
to her husband
elf this Miss Maynard, or Thornley,, is sister
to your agent, and is likely to live with him
for the future, would it be we'll to encourage
euch intimacy between her and Ellen, as q long
journey together would certainly lead to 2"
"What does it matteri" answered Mr.
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