The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-04-14

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ment, when he was st homo last. He novel
knows what it is to want companions he hsi
fri ends enough all tho yoar round at Eton.'
! "Ab, you ought to have fIiends. Yon ongh
to have been aJ school years ago. 1our mothe
! is right thore. Well Danish no more bare-leg
ged goSsoons for your sins, but send you out o
the way Yourself, sirl"
| "Id be glad enough to be doing something
only it need not be to an English school you send
| me. would not like to come back such q PTie
as Pelham"
Easy now. There's yonr mother beokoniDs
to us to come in to breakfast. | wonder how
| long we have kept her waiting"
Mrs. DAILY was already seated at the break
| fast-table when her husband and children en-
she turned up fair, thin, deioately tinted
check to receive the greeting kiss that each
bestow wed.
! ~ should not have called you in," she said
quietly, addressing her husband, shut it 10
1uesday-the day when l always expect let
ter from Pelham - and the bag has been
here half an hour. Won't you unlock 1t at
oncof"
II think I'll fortify myself with q cup OF
coffee frat. There's no saying that there
mayn't be missives in that bng for me that even
Pelham's etosion won't sweeten"
lie carried the letter-bag off to his end OF the
table with rather n provoking smile and an
absolute quietness settled on Mrs. Dsiys face
not vexatiOn, or disappointment-only o sort
extinguisher, the glow OF soft color that had
risen to her cheek as she spoke, and to turn
her brown eyes into cold shining stones:
He sat watching her as she occupied herself
silently with the business of the breakfast
table, her thin, jewelled fingers moving here
aud there among the cups with quick, precise
motions; and 10 he watched, the same tender
e1 pre- ssion with which he had regarded Ellen
stole into his face.
It was that dainty reserved grace, those still
patient looks on the fair face, that had won
his neart years ago, when he first left his roll
licking trieh home, and became aware OF some
of its defects by the contrast Afforded by the
habits of the weif-ordered English family
among whom he met her.
She, with her oonsiderate wise ways and gen.
tie temper, was surely the remedy he wanted
for the evils ne saw and did not know how to
combat and if he felt chill fall on him afuer
he had won her calm acknowledgment of pre-
ference, he cnmforted himself with visions of a
magical awakening into foil responsive love
and bright enjoyment OF life that would be
effected by her transportation into the warm,
bright, loving atmosphere he meant to take
her to. He had not quite done with dreams
and visions about her yet, though to other
people lit was evident enough that several
years of weak health and weary contention
against disorder she could neither tolerate nor
efiectuslly control, had not tended TO make a
naturally piaintive temper less sad, or to re-
ooncilo an over anxious heart to surroundings
of gaety that were perpetual jar on its fore
bodIngs.
"Come, Eleanor, will you say something
pleasant to me If give you your letter at
onoei'
Spe WOulO not GD6 corners OF neC ulOuIn
relax into the least gllmmer of q smile ss she
snswered-
81 really want it very much that is ALL"
well, here it is, then, and may 10 reward
you. Here's something too for you, Miss
Eileen-a sorawl from Cousin Anne that ille-
gauts home. Ii ade. envelope, with the stamp
upside down, can have come from no other
place than Good Peoples Hollow and the
queen of O'Flaherty witohes' herself; and now"
--orumplipg up the maIuinR contents of the
bag in his hand and making grimace at it
"shall / put myself on the rack for three.
qnnrter6 OF an hour for no manner of use. or
shall toss these rasoals at once into the fire
without giving them leave to cudgel my
brainsi" He made motion as If to throw the
papers on the fire, casting at the same time a
oomicRl lock towards his wife, as IL he expect
ed her to in terfere to- prevent it, She was too
n.uoh absorbed in her letter to heed him. 1t
was Ellen who stole behind bis chair and laid
two dethning hands on his arms.
Papa, l wish You would let me help you
with your business letters. l could write for
You sometimes whom you don't like the trouble,
and then people would not got angry by bein &
kept waiting"
Zine business 1t would be that you and 1
oonoooted together"
IL dnresay it would be fine. Cousin Anne
used to help her father in his business. We
should be like them"
mo donht we should {; if We ever do set up
in business together, it will be in Good Peo-
pies Hollow fashion Fine OFtaherty schemes
for weaving silk out of thistle-Gown, and max
ing straw hats from wood shavngs, you would
drag me iptoi But don't raise your hopes ;
yonr mother will never let yon get astride /.
broomstick and chase Will-o'the- Wisps with
your dear godmother. Does she send you any
news of herself in that crazy looking billet you
| have in yonr hand ~
ait is only to tell me that she has quite
finished her model of the three wheeled oar
that cannot possibly be overturned on the bad
roads between the Hollow and Ballyowen, and
! that old Brian Lynoh has undertaken to build
one. 1t is to be ready before the next great
BallayOwen Fair day, and she will be able to
drive into the town and keep her own boys in
order. There has been nothing but faction
fights and rows at Bafiyoweu on fair days,
lately che says, ust because she has not been
able to look after her own people,"
would not you like to be there to look after
them, too perohed at Cousin Anne's side on
this new Venus car and drawing a tribe OF
ragged followers after you safe out OF the way
of faction fights and whiskyH We will have
| Pelham, and your uncle Charles over from
England to see the triumphal procession ii
that three wheeled car ever gets built. En-
! mAmmAP
The father snd daughter had been so en-.
crossed in their banter of each other, that they
bad not till now observed q change of expires.
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