The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
slsraIng Star and Catholic messenger.
naW oRLKAHs, SUNDAY. MAY 5, is1s.

Pendants" ,,i.b men and
women are notbiu q better than children. w hat
do you call me-" , D..
indeed, only meant on. unea"o"'o"' ""'
West country people here
"I am very much obliged to you for giving
me such . philosophical reason tor coming 70
tho con ol usion that onr household VIII never
woxk well together. You can't blame me now
for what have come 70 toll you. Anne, have
given it all up. I made mp my mind last n,gnt
and told my wife, SO there 10 no going osok
nov. / am going to turn absentee. Being
convicted Of incapscity to manage my oMu ~
fairs by my brother ia-law, have consented
to put them into the hands of an agent OF MS
o6oosipe. who is to live at Cattle DAILY and keep
a tight hand over the ensnts, while We pass
our time in England or abroad.tiIi fsinam
is Of age. at all events. NOW WY uon ,bc,
have sworn q hundred times that nothlng
ebould induce me to skuk out of the country
and leave WysIps %y people pour 70 ipdiGDation
"You said you had made up yonr mind and
could not go back" -
"Thats no reason for not abusing me Come
say something, good or bsoi nothing is so othih
ous ss silence from you"
"What can 1 say bot that it is very sudden
resolution ~
have been gradually pushed towards it. You
don't know the force of persistent wish IN
she mind of q person with whom you nave 10
pass all your days, and whom you are alW ays
Grying and failing to satisfy with something
else There is an overpowering mesmerlsm IN
it. The moment comes when the temptation
strong to be resisted. Anything for peace, one
aBat will it be peacei Won't you begin to
have . persistent wish to get home again
"Good for nothing, and miserable; but what
of that Ny wife tells me she has been miser-
able here for twenty years and ssaRs nS ,.ss my
matrimonial arrangements, should there
not 2"
"Let me finish your sentenoe-ffI had done
my duty and been Prudent years ago."
''No, II you would begin to do yonr duty end
means, IL you can't es indeed know you can't,
afford to live in it but don't leave the neigh
borhood. Stay and do the needful work your
is :s snetry oF want that
kept you idle all these years"
"went of thought! No, indeed i! is too
You talk Of my not being grown up. II look
ing before and after is the characteristic of q
man, 1 am one above others, for do nothing
else. It has paralysed my hands for other do
Ing. What is the use Of throwing seed into
ground that 10 ohokefol of dragons teeth
There are hsrvests Of evil to be resped in this
land before anything else can come; and seeing
labor. II you were to die to morrow, Anne,
Good Peoples Hollow would be bog agsin in
few years, and the people you are try ing to
drag up into civilization would be as open as
any OF their ueighbors to have their passions
reused by the frat schemer who appealed to
the old grndges and hatreds and wild hopes
that centuries of chershing have made stron-
ger than anything else in their natures. There
would soon be not q trace of your work left"
.'Granted; but what is that to met II can 60
mp to Him who gave me my work, hand in hand
with one brother or sister whose life have
made happier and better, it will be enough.
That little bit OF good vi live as well as the
evil you talk OF, and survive it. have moth
ing to do with the sowing or reaping of other
peoples hArvests."
"You are freer than am, Anne We come
back to the root of Hy difficulty again. What
ever other enemies make, can't bear to ave
foes of my own household; and within the last
twenty -four hours l have come to see that If /
don't yield this point OF going away there will
be division among US that will make family
union for the future an impossible thing. You
must hear how far the antagonism has gone
before you judge. Aud that brings me to tbe
fine piece of work of Master Connor's 1t is that
have to tell you Of. Has not he told you him
selfi'
"No. hope it is not anything wrong
nothing worse than o wild prank that has
turned out ILL.,"
at has turned ont very i'll; and unluokily
the prank, If he means it for one wss aimed at
his brother, who is too like his mother to be q
happy subject for prAnks. Pelham, must tel
you, had fAvorite dog sent from England, tc
which Gas 1t was good house-dog, and barked
dislike. Unluokily, few days after it's arrvA
it threw down and seriously hurt q little boy
who had come to the place on on errand fol
Connor. Ellen and Connor were mad to have
the creature sent away on the instant, and
Pelham just refused to part with it, as well he
might, not choosing to be hectored by hil
younger brother. Small blame to him for that
you'll say. l was too full of other things tina
day to give any heed to these quarrels. Ellen
lays the blame PelhAms contemptuoui
manner but, anyhow, Connor's spirit wa
a VI tn VI
by fair means or foul. He connived wi h som;
OF the servants to get the dog ont of the yard
and carried It off himself and gave it into tht
keeping of two men well noted in the neigh
borhood for misohief-Pat Hanalau and Red
haired Dennis, whom the Guagers have beer
hunting from hill to hill the last twev
months on account of clever little still the!
have between them. confess I've sort o
kindness for the rogues myself, and can't be o
angry with Connor for oolleaguing with then
as l ought to be, for many laugh have h
and had together over stories of the c,eve
shifts they've been put to. Dennis professe
to feel himself safe on my ground, and oonsid