The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-28

for bbe nTst time their visitors N hs and
duriog the lAsi half Eour John had severely
tried Brides pAfience by fgetiug sboot TIE
library and ORA wing room, spying ont and
onarIeliDg with all The little added touches Of
ornsnenE which Lsoia, 10 the yet greater
t-iAl of her patience. had spent tie entire
morning in devianE and Carrying into 4 4 c..
She looked mp a lutte sharply from her work,
whea J ohn Ed6r, sed her.
MI dear John, hcw cRn ] tell 1fyour and
Lasbis's principal anxiety sbout the house is
Iaat il should look honelike TO the Days, you
shonld nave thought OF that before the new
forniture was hronght in Ii Is quite impos
si BILE, / assure you, now, Whatever you do or
undo, 10 bring back the old look
If my experience is aEy rnle for them, and
think il ia said Anne OFiaberTy, who was
seated on the other side of Bridss workable
in the recess of the newly thrown ont bay
window, "the com pleteness of the change will
be great relief. Tney are just now 6reading
a stirring pp of old memories, but when they
are once shut into the honse, the surprise of
its Transformation will drive other thoughts
away, and they will be spared pain. / doubt
whether could have borne 10 spend many
hours here rs / have done this winter, or
whether you woald have foGnd my head SO
clear for brs iness, as yen Are pleased to say it
is, if l had lot found the sight of your
grsneeur and luxury very hostiIe to dreams
of old times"
Luxury you do call it then" cried John !;
and that IS jnst the impression rebel against
sober csterpiilars like ourselves forming into
CANDY butterflies, there is the b I'd taste of our
doing il in such q time this l. viii look
very heArtless to some people,
There is nothing absurd in c8berpiiIafs
turning into butteIfies that / ever heard OF, -
| remarked Bride, dryiy; and as 30 the house,
you agreed with me that Lesbia should have
her own way abont furnishing it. Whist has
happened 20 alter yoor opinion sineef7
One does not set up TO ee infAlible, sup
pose," said John, turning away ana Brides
question in them, fell back on her work
II q minute OF two Anne OFlsherty came
round TO Brides side of the work table, and
put arm across her shoulder, while she
nents of the poor Carmen they were making
together; and Bride looked up at her CRATE
fully, Wiling that she should perceive, and
sympsthise with, the discomfort which even
! tnis sight approach TO alteration between
bersen and John cansed Der.
This was one of the results of that win ter's
| tron bles, the sprinipg up OF warm friendship
| between these two women, who had neither OF
| them been n ach thrown in the way OF femi-
| nine companionship hitherto and who bad
sufficient unlikeness in their characters to have
| mutual Tepulsion. Hard work for other peo-
| Pile and the daily witnessing of suffering they
| were &C aAlly spxions TO slleTiate, had been the
| bond tnst Lad drawn them near enough TO look
| through the outworks of unlikeness, and dis
| csrn the wide meeting ground of agreement
| behind.
| Anne, the more sympathetic and deep sig ht
| ed of the two, had found q yet closer tie be
tween herself and her new friend. She had
| made 8 mistake when she said that she hao
! passed much of her time AZ Castle Daily that
winter without being tempted to recur IN hei
| tboughts TO old times. There had been good
| deal of retrospect in her moods, brt it had moi
been the old places that had called it back il
was the subtier interest of living over again
| through sympathy scme OF the In 5ntal con
! ficts she had carried on in the same spot
| years before. The circumstances had been
| different, bat the training through which
| Bride Thornley, was passing was the same
| he training Of having s1lll and The
| pei son she loved best in tie world, TO whom
/ her sympathy and c3mpanioDship bad hitherto
| seemed All-sDffcieDt, drawn away from her to
| wards q more absor bing love. leaving her tc
| stand alone in the old place There had beer
| . time of such withdrawal of old accustomed
1 affection in Aupe's life sbe knew the signs OF
/ the suffering it Caused and its danger. Sb'
| knew that women 10 whom Providence ap
points Q solitary ,ot have 10 come, when ear
ties are broken up. to turning point IN LIE
| when the prospect Of being hepceforth first tc
no one-secoud. or perhaps nothing at all, tc
those they have loved ast-hss 10 be faced
| and that the manner in which this crisis !:
met determines generally whether they are tc
sink or rise forever in the scale OF being-slns
| to level of narrower interests, of pettiel
loves and cares and hates than belong &c
ordinary womRuhood, or rise to an outlook OF
| far- reaching sympsthies and capacity for IN
thanked service that endows them with fore
taste of the self ess joys of the angels. Having
passed through such valley of humiliation
herself, and come out at the right eEd, Anne
1
as an understanding onlooker knows how tc
offer silently to felloW-traveler on her way
Bride Thornley, had no idea that the strug
giles of her soul were in any way open to he
friend; they had never exchanged 8 word tha
seemed to bea- on the enbjsct, bat she had {
sense of being oomprehended and helped tha
was comfortable
The mere touch of Anne's hand soothed hel
irritabiity just pow, aud helped her, whel
John came back TO their side of the room. *
resume the conversation without that note o.
sharpness in her voice that had driven hin
away.
mistakes AL through" he began again. i" L
is all incopgruous- Ny eyes are open to-day
and / zee the hideoDsness of our doipgs.
wish We could COT jure everything back to lool
as it did four monIts ago"
t'Oh, John, and don't / wish could cor jar
} everything not to look but to be, with our
selves as II WAS four years sgoT
" don't say that"
: al do; quite agree with my nsmesake
, Bridget Ella, in thinking that being well Of
is o very uuinterestng state of things, and il
E longing for the good OLD times again when VI
: were poor and enjoyed ourselves. Have yor
| Fljn;a old china