The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05

/ seemed to bc ex postulating rather loudly with
Ellen, with her arms piled with pillows and
! shawls, stood q little in the rear. Anne left
| the three W hee1ed car TO be carried OF TO the
| back premises, and exhibited In triumph to
his acquaintances there by Peter Lynch, and
| walked down the drive to announce herself.
Ellen espied her when she wss still some
yards from the house, and impetuously throw W
| ing her load down on the door step es her
| mothers feet, rushed to meet her cousin, Civ
ing her frantic squeeze in her arms before
she exclaimed, athlessly,
| know that we are to leave Castle DAILY in @
weeks time from this think should have
| gone wild if you had not come, and had had
! to leave home without seeing you again"
II think you are wild" said Anne, looking
fondly down into her favorire's face, that bad
| q new wistfnl expression on IL that went to
her heart. "If had not come to YOU, Of
course you would have come to me. Why, l
have been expecting you every day this fort
night"
Ellen "and don't think mamma would ever
| have let me go to you again. Do you know,
my Unole Pelham was dreadfully scandalized
at Connor's 5qnning agsy to you, and at you Q a
| thinks you quite as bad as Copnor. He says
almost every day that from all he hears you
must be g thorough Irishwomap, and you can
ina CINE what a dreadful creature that means
to him. Tuere lie is, standing by mamma"
"a fine, good looking gentleman"
said Anpe II think he will bear the sight Of
me, even IN my 6naDUIe6b nOIDS' mbu0 ClOhhI
without injury to his nerves. Let me go and
speak to him"
Mrs. DAILY advanced a step or two to greet
Miss O'Flaherty, and Anne thought that the
last few weeks bad made change in her sp-
pearapce too. The extreme air of invalidism
was laid aside, her dress was brighter and
more becoming, her step had more life in it,
and there was actually smile-was it smile
of triumph ION her lips, as, laying passive
hand in Annes, she said
II am very glad to see you are able 30 come
ont. Mr. DAILY was getting quito anxious.
We are so busy preparing for our departure
| that we did not know how to spare q day to
drive to the Hollow. Yet We would not on
any account have left the country for q length
of time without sayi1 goodbye to yon.'
Anne was we'll accustomed TO the 'oole Gasp
of the hand, Ind TO she pecuiiSr ssop7tiop of
being looked at without beID y recoguiz d, with
which the misLress Ci CssTe Dtly particGler
lied her greetin gs to her, bat tie sui!e aud
the triumphant emphasis were something ".
A fresh, and perhaps more CALLING pin prick
wound than she had hitherto had TO harden
herself sg ainst in that place.
She would have received the remark in
| silence if the sound of an irritated tap Of the
foot from Ellen behind had not warned her
| versstion at once.
You are preparing for departure already,
I see,' she said. stooping down to pick up one
of the pillows Ellen had thrown down "end
| the person you are sending away is an invalid,
1 fear, from Ellen's preparations"
at is we'll for Ellen's patients hen there is
| herself" remarked Mrs. Daily, with severe
| glance at certain cushions and shawls that
| had rolled down the steep steps and were
| being trsmpled under the servants' feet "a
| few minutes ago she was rapsacking the house
| for comforts for Murdock Malachy, who is to
be removed to the hospital in Galway to-day,
| and you see where her preparations are now.
You know, l suppose, Ellen that you threw
down the bottle of wine you begged so hard
| for, and that it's contents are soaking your own
woolen shawl down there"
| Mamma, you will let me have another" "
pleaded Ellen, her eyes full of tears, and her
face one crimson glow of shame and mortifica-
ton. II know I'm very silly, bat indeed
| cosld not help it when saw Cousin Anne"
| Cousin Anne ia not much obliged to you
for pleading the sight of her as a sufficient ex-
cuse for stiffness 1 think you might have
found something peesanter to say about her
on her first Introduction to your uncle"
"Come, come; never mind," put in Sir
Charles Pelham, Who was not proof against
the sight of tears in such pretty eyes az
her lighter at times. LET Ellen run in and
get another bottle of wine- and permit me to
shake hands with Miss oFlaherty, of whom
child enough. You should take her as she is
and make allowance for laundering"
That is kind" said Anne; SIT you will
make allowance for blOnderlng see hope OF
Sir Charles was puzzled. The warm smile
| and grscious cordial air contL addicted anything
of sarcasm be might have suspected in the
words.
"A much better, looking woman than ex
pected, and qaite the lady. wonder why
Elinor hates her 80 y was his mental verdict
while Aune, reading his thoughts in the sloN
glanoes of his eyes backwards and forwardl
between herself and Mrs. DAILY, came to bel
own conclusion.
'He has prejudices, but he is man." sht
thought, land therefore capable of Justice h
| would never, if he watched Us for twenty
years, arrive at understanding the feeling tha
obliges us two poor women always to show
, the worst side of ourselves to each other. No
not if he knew-as of course he cannot know
? that one of us never forgets that she has be
+ fore her the woman who has married the mai
she loved, and the other that she is talking t.
the woman who refused the man che ha
married."
} A little commotion among the crowd rount
, the car now recalled Mrs. DAlys and Si
Charles attention to the subject that wa
occupying them when Miss O'Flsherty made
! her appearance. Ellen returned from tht
back premises with the news that poor Mur
dock was really coming out now, and dc zsn
eager, curious, sympathetic faces prepared fo
lamentation and coincidence were turned to
wards the door.