The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-16

papaI there's Billy Tully'e boat with the hole
, rock. where 10 was pot to be mended year,
ago; aud the coping stones that fell from the
J garden wall In the great storm are in their ole
or. can still cetoh glimpse through it of the
red gable of Matthew Borke's farmhouse's
t. a. If SHOULD sn ss
about 60 all the things and kiss them for hav.
ing atood still in their places and not altered
o shade since We left them. Is there any one
! minutef"
lyon love it all. then, you true Irish woman
-ruin and alif Let alone 10 good enough for
Yes. II it makes people happy and hov
happy they are to see you among them agaipi'
"rhey don't 60 in for improvements"
"Mr. Thornley, has been making improve
"He has been trying hard, and fstters him.
self that by dint of pushing aud pulling and
old machine-given it start along the road
Of progress but now you see King Log has
come back again, the frogs will have little
peace, end escape crushing ct all events"
1--WE did very well as we were, think. ]
suppose We might be richer, bat then, how
discontented and miserable We might all ben
II wish John Thornley, we're here to hear
you, and sneer st yoor Irish logic-diseontent:
cd and miserable because You were better of"
Paps, meant lit was not.s bull; it 10
what have observed. Onoe begin to worry
oo0ob bblu8o kOiuk VIGIL anu OolOR IN ROOO
order. and there is no end"
True as the O'Flsherty witch herself could
put 1t, my yellow haired queen. Whereas, yon
and oopeess % walls. and King Logs in the Ws
ter there 10 an end-Bit- BY bit we rot and
crunble away, till there 10 nothing left of us
And You prepared to face that position of
things, you hater Of improvements Z"
II don't truly mean that bate any thing but
being kept away from you. Papa, IIl tell you
q secret; It ss great joy to get back to this
once heart, but it's the seeing you back here
that really care for. l never felt had you
All the time we were in England. don't
think 1t was yow that lived in the doleful little
house with us there; but now. by our own
lake side, have you fast. and You won't sh ut
your heart against me any more. or let there
be any little corner full Of troubles 10 your
them and fold them away, 80 that you will |
hardly know they are there. You alwsys prom
ised that when grew up we would enter into |
Mr.. Thornley, mean to take his place."
$50 You shall, my darling, and we'n make |
the best of it as things stand; but if were |
% well out to OF the the way, IRE, remember there's NO one
Pelham az this young Thornley,. am glad he |
has been here and learned so much; his helm |
and advice might be useful again to Pelham /
for himself and am we'll ont of the way"
Papa, do yon hear met You are not to talk |
of being well out of the way when am tell
lug you tuot bu0 Ouly buIuR i care 10t on earth |
is to see you in it. Don't you think you and I |
together will be worth more than Pelham and |
Mr. Thornleyf II we asked all the people |
usi"
"For King and Queen Log mot doubt of
it. Bnt then you see there is the rotting pro-
OF IS to come afterwards"
I'VE are not going to rot. We will have
our little improvements, and our plans too
My FIRST is that we shall go on living precisely
as we did before. only that in every way we
that never, never sgain shall you say sad words,
or talk of beir ont of the way, when You and
I are walking together in the moonlight, and
I have your dear arm fast between my two
hands,"
eat least promise never sgain to say any
thing to veg you, Eileen nroon. Now We have
,ome to the steep bit of the bill, and it is time
for you to run back to the honse. Connor is
bringing my horse after me. had better
mount here, for have longish ride before
me-"
.Yoa have not told me yet where -yeu are
going"
81 shall not come back to dinner When /
have finished my business sball ride ON to the
HOLLOW, ard stay the night with Anne O'Fla-
nerty."
slow wish you would take me with you'll
Good bye: We must have walk by the lake
avery night while this moon is full.7
Ellen turned at the gate to wave her hand
towards tho tall figure on horseback standing
sentinel on the white road till she should have
entered the house.
'he said to herself. every one would know
rho 1t is, even in the moonlight, and there
will be glad hearts in the cabins as he passes.
Ind welcoming faces peepipg out. wish
'ould follow with my eyes, and see him all the
Tay to the Hollow.
CHAPTER XVIII.
"God doth not need
Either mans work or his own gtfts: who best
Bear his mild yoke. they him best his state
ls kingly thousands At his bidding speed,
And post DER land and ocAan without rest u,
They also serve who only stand and wait :"
MILTON.
If the day had been Ellen's, the evening w as
Iesbias.
Whom she came down stairs into the Castle J
DAILY drawing. room, dressed for late dinner, !
With string of seed pearls round her neck, ,
which Bride had taken from the old cedar :
wood jewel-case that had not previously been :
pen since their mothers death, and presented
o her in acknowledgment of her present right
o wear jewels Lesbia felt not only that she q
vas tasting for the frat time the sweets of her
leiress-ship, but that she was claiming the !
more subtle rights of grown-up young lady
md beauty. hood which, under the pressure of :
Aunt Josephs judicious snubbing, she had :