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RICH THOUGH POOR.
-eT ♦.. A. V. aucaoLro.
so rood of land Mail the we.
So ships upon the sea, -‘ " •
Nor uessures rare, Isar gems SlCti gold,
Do ony keep for me ;
Sr yesterday'[ wrought for bread,
So I most toil today ;
yet some are not as rich as 1,
Nor I ao poor as . they.
Da yonder tree the sunlight Ws.
The robin's on the bough—
gill I can hem a merrier note
Thanbe Is warbling nor ;
lie's hat en ArstLot theskr.
!rid never lingers long—.
Bat bid (Annus the lire keg yor
With music and with song.
eme:gsther round me, little ones.
And as I sit me down,
SIM sbout4 of laughter on roe plant
A wink regal crown ; '
Ssi. childless king, would I accept
Your armies and domain,
Or e'en your crown and never feel
These tiny hands again ?
There's More than honor in their toady
And blessing unto me.
Than kingdom unto kingdom joined.
Qr !pries on the sea ;
S greater tarts to me are brought
Than Sheba's queen did bring
TJ dim mho, at Jerusalem,
ias bon to be a king.
Look at my crown and then at yours I
took in my heart - and tktne
Hordo oar jewels now compare..
The enthly and divine ?
Held up your diamonds to the light.
Emerald and amethyst, ,
They're nothing to these krre4it eyes,
These lips so often kissed t • -
' notde Roman of them an.
That mother. good and trim.
'Who ;pointed to her little ones.
Ttir jewels of ber s eyeo l
For gortle in my own tothiy.
To deck a sinless Mimi;
Bow pow my riches at the
Of those in glory nom!
And yet no rood of all the earth.
So •
Fkiisi upon the sea.
Nor um:4am me, noe l gold. not gims.
Are safely kept for me ;
Tel I on rich—myself a king !
And here is mydoliain.
Which only God can take mray
To give roe back maul
Stletitlt talc.'
(Prom the Nadia University Usgvine.)
Life and DeOrinliPPerarY•
A Stars Founded on Fiat.
CONCLI:DED.
Begone, you shameful wretch ! " be ex
imed, wildly. " Disgrace riever darkened
!car fatiser'is name till it was Nickelled by you!
tilt the 'Aim I Hide your face limn all be
*in' to ye,, you ungrateful girl ! How dare
show yocirmlf back here in this brazen way?
L well ImiMines you to have that impadeoce,
cv that you've got nowhere eke to go, since
t bla'guard you skit off wid is tut up for
=der and robbery.
Astonisbed-at Ibis reception, yet fully corn
athendimg what the words of her father meant,
tielly emleasored to' utter some explanatory
slesees, bat he would not ristea to a word
ltm her, sad even her mother called oat stern
:—
"Come in. Pat ; shut the door, the air's
s ,
sarrin in cowict.'
Is an instant after the door was banged
f`+ . a force that made the hinges tremble, and
Ms miserable girl found herself once again
Wm, standing oat in the chill night air, with
Me rant pattering thickly oo her. Her head
*um giddy,and4etapeeri e , ng a few paces from
*knew., she would bare fallen to the ground,
friendly arm been - pamettecend' her alight
blk as the race of Bet Fagan tuttrindred in
le ear— • -
'N'eser heed, slang ! you'll cowed me."
All elm was mist and confession. The widow
Iperted her to her own dwelling; end there
4.4 her on a bed s tenderly at she 'Wight have
se her own child.
"Oh, poor thing !. poor Wag! me you
Seried for your own ruin any way!" she mar
tzni. ss she chafed the girl's hinds, awl drew
"4s wavy hair from bet beautiful: forehead.—
Oh, sore meself often thought things 'id come
e ttas pau f•
Neßy heard the words, and waderttood thfir
**anon too well. She fixed her dark eyes
;They on the widow's face, bat weld not at.
. 11. 2 wort Pride choked her ittemusee. The
*mow waisted to esansur forth sandiyothar
its that sere passing through her shed,
al of which left the miserable girl without a
eltht that she regarded tier as &last NA 0 . -
tie aware. Bet MOW that Mout *akin
jtail - and even when she bent low *Ter
- w-4, as earl ia • whisper il Abe Irelt . Mr
:1111, 4) NOM, end received a hemmedansutor
a aim:satire, she milt shoot bet bead -
IngMe
g"kil that ever, again,,
- Xll4 k - st! poor Meg Is
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tittel, : _ sz in se =Bed .sui•e=ta
row Hawaii be*'face, sa
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mistaken.. I never want away willite. He tek
me awayr.Ood sees he did; ati WM' laid
erste him since the eareshe he carried me to
the meantaina. ' The Lord only knows what
tempted him to do the like r . I
-Bet, ogee more urged the poor girl to eatm
herself. As she could excuse frailty Of one sort
so she could that of another ; and P. did not
surprise her that Welly should. as Slits thought,
resort to falsehood toscreenherself i fTm shune.
Therefore shedid not toms her t.) give.. par
ticular account of her late 'Ministate* so firm
ly was she convinced that a dark ; blot, which
nothing could remove, rested on ber character.
Appearances were .all against ner. No story
that she might frame, however plansible, could,
in Mrs. Fagan% estimation, and to use her own
phisse, " deceive the people out Of their seven
senses ;" and when , the girl took her by the
arm, and solemnly recouoted the daring act
Fogerty had been guilty of, in carrying, hater
cibly from the Calipanick hills, Mid the after
events, which the reader already knows, the
widow listened incredulously, though kindly,
thinking, at the same time, that it would be far
better, and more likely to awaken the compas
sion of the neighborhood, if Ned* stock to the
truth, and confessed her fault repentantly. As
the young girl went on with her narration, she
only nodded her head at appropriate periods,
and ejaculated now and then, 'Dear, dear I"
"Is it possible I" and so forth.: But it was
only when she slyly observed_, "Wasn't it the
poor story that you met Flogarty at all that
day!" that Nelly suddenly becaine aware that
her words were doubted. Starting uP•she ex
claimed, "You don't believsme,; Bet Fagan—
you know von don't I" and Bet., taken very
Much aback; made as Jesuitical a reply as pos
sible, which, might neither 'offend her poor
friend, or endanger her own knees by one of
Father McCabe's penances for downright lies.
Without crediting anything whatever of the
story, Mrs. Fagan, nevertheless, remembered
ever) word of it, from beginning to end ; and
being much of a gossip, as well is kind heart
ed, lost no time in telling. it over again to some
of her particular friends, and among them to
Kitty Dillon, Nelly's sister, who earnestly wish
ed it might be true, though she could hardly
dare to hope it was.
" There's only one bein' can ; clear Neill.,"
said Mrs. Fagan, as she spoke upon the subject
. to Dan Phelan, a neighbor to whom she gen
erally applied for advice in time of perplexity;
for being„as she often obserse& " a lone wo
man," she frequently fancied hersel: in want of
assistance. This was considered a decided de
lusion on her part by the neighbors, who were
opinion that she was perfectly Capable of man
aging the affairs of the whole country, without
help from any one, man or Woman. There
wasn't such a "Stirring'woman" for miles
around as Bet Fagan : she was the best '.„dau
cer and the swiftest walker in' the neighbor.
hood ; she could sit up . with the sick night.af
ter night, without once snatching a wink of
sleep i she was the merriest,joker at a wake,
and the mast skillful layer-out of a corpse—
an accomplishment much prised in Ireland;; in
Ishort, ill alltimes of need, Bet presence was
very much in demand - not a 4 ristening, 1
fu
neral or wedding, could be ' plete without
4xh,
1 her ; and her large, good-natured face was of
-1 ten the most cheering sight that met the gam
of teeny a dying one; So she Said to Dan Phe
lan, "Tiler's only one bein' that can clear Net
. ly, an' that's Pety Fogarty. himself. You see
he's in gaol at enamel s ail' maybe if you'd ride
1 over there, 11112, you'd get him to tell the truth
to you." 1 '
,
" Put wine. to do it," ,replied . Phelan,
stretching his head, doubtfilly ; " but I "mis
.
trust, Bet—it'll be of no use."
" Ge, any way. whin I tell," tweed the aid
ow ; and Dan was obliged to say he would.'
) .
The ides that his daughter bad the unblush
ing effrontery to return to the neighborhood,
after her supposed delinquency, struck Pat
Dillon, if possible, with greeter wrath than he
bad felt for the last three weeks. The com
passion expressed for her by the neighbors, in I
cornideration of her youth and previous good
conduct, only hardened his heart, and made I
him more unlikely to forgire her. lie consid- i
ered it a slur cast upon his mat; that any ex-
cvne contd . be &end to palliate, her glaring mis 7
conduct. Far better would be have been plea- 1
sed, if the country all round /had kiira con
demning her supposed gates somethiti, mon
strous and hitherto unheard of. Xis sons felt 1
equal fury, 'yarding their sister with feelings I
that might have honor to Spartans of old ; I
nor was their mother at all more lenient to. 1
wards her unhappy child. Kitty, alone.,'of all
the hinny, experienced anytbing like comas- i
'soon forthe disregarded Cam; but ahem= peretnp-
tordy ordered. nit to see or
.speak to her. Net:
ty moaned °oder the frienly sbelter,at Bet I
Yam's root.. a prey to the Want dliipirtag 1
feelings. Th ere was one person sea Interest -
ed in the misforttioes of the girl. who, never-1
thetas. apoke_but little a the subject. This
was Doris Ityasi. Doubted, despised, as she
felt herself to be; Nay-mild rather hate saf- 1
feted her right hand to have been lopped off. 1
than deign to ask for an itteririelr Inth her
lover, when he ithl - not seek of it him elf. and
this Denis was too proud tti do. Up tank i
bonest, with: repetition net We'.- 'Rya!! i
was yet mare ceatioasAn: gramme and his
.affection; for Netti., •po ul es it may bare:
beak was not weeded iiiiiislese lit Amin 1
she tmeehAll huighimete* of abs .4s .sulilli 1
aett dieno ha heart lbw aeoeuet ~ Nelfiviaed
lief Wadi, aid NE 0141100 ,1 rial
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EVERY THURSiArtriOICANDA, BUDFORD COUNTY, BY E. 031EARA GOODRICH,
or h
ry. comParuenil a gut e
bad beer! betrayed to the police, who after
mach-. fndtkat.searching among the Galtei
milantalas, at length captured him near-Lim
erick, where he was about to embark for Amer
ica. Upon the evirtiltig that heltrulCarried off
Nay Dillqa, a hint was given him by a com
rade that he was to be thus betrayed, and in
consequence of this information, he abandoned
the usual hiding-place resorted to by himself
and his lawless companions. Having deposited
the senseless form offer in the cave,he found
it necessary to make his escape in another di
rection with all speed, hoping to evade the po
lice as be had often done before. But anima
ted by the fiercest feelings of revenge, his pur
suers were determined to bunt to the death, and
after some time .Fogarty and a few others were
made prisoners.
Dan Phelan was not exactly the sort of per
son calculated for such a mission as Bet Pa
gan despatched him on to thergaol. 'Peter re
ceived him sullenly, and as the poor stupid old
man scratched his head, and hemmedand haw
ed, ignorant of how he should commence his
'inquiries, Fogarty maintained a dogged silence,
'by no means encouraging. At last Dan was
necessitated to take his departure as wise es
he came, with a very unsatisfactory report to
' bring airs . Fagan. Kelly, who 'had clang to
hope that Fogarty might haie honesty enough
to clear her chara.cter f was *dully disappoint
ed at the ill-success of Phelau's efforts ; the
blow fell so heavily upon her that she had be
came very ill, and was for many' weeks laidap
on a sick bed, while Bet Fagan and herold
friend, Norry Croon, nursed her with unwell
tying kindness.
Father McCabe, the parish priest, was call
ed in to see her, and from his manner, and a
feW words he dropped nPon hearing Nelly'S
confession, Bet felt, at list, almost convinced
that she was as innoeentasshe declared herself
to be. ,
" Bedad," though she, ' " thry woonst
more again, afore it is too late - to get her righ
ted. au' sure if I fail I can't help it ; no one
eel do more than their best."
The *sexes had commenced unusually early
this year, arid Fogarty was DOW a condemned
criminal, airraiting the hour of execution in his
cell. One morning Bet set out on foot for
aonatel, without mentioning the object of her
journey to' any one. It was a raw day ; sleet
was drifting over the hills and valleys ; laden
clouds darkened the sky ; but unswerving from
her purpose the widow heeded not the weath
er. Her short, sturdy pare might bare been
seep moving steadily along, undaunted by wind
or arrow. Arrived at the town, site made her
way at once to the.gaol, and asked permission
to see Fogerty. After some difficulty it was
granted, and she soon found herself in the pres
ence of the coodemped man. Ever since his
capture and conviction, Peter bad preserved a
most undaunted bearing. The fire of his eye
still burned brightly as e'er ; the wild, scorn
ful expression of his countenance remained un
changed. Ile might hove stood as a model
for any bandit hero of romance. He had lis
tened to his death-sentence in court without
moving a muscle of his face ; yet, when Bet
Fagan stood before him:his eye quailed, and
for a few minutes he appeared struck with deep
emotion. '
" Pety," said the wieow, kindly, while her
voice quivered slightly ; it isn't here I ex
pected to meet you next, whin we parted after
the dance in Tim Scully's barn."
He made no reply,Anft Mrs. Fagan continuer :
" I'm sorry for you, an' that's the truth, Pe
ty. There's a world o' trouble kern over the
neighborhood since that same night. Poor
Nell) , Dillon was blight and merry at the dance
an' now. sure nongti not one 'id think she was
the same colleen ; it's on her account that I'm
here today, Pety, an' as ye expect mercy for
yer cowl whin ye lave this world, I'd have you
make a clean confession of what passed to make
her quit her father's ; -house the way she did.
She'ill never hould up..her head unless some
thing's done to make the coattail. y think bet
ther of her than they do."
".What do you watt me to do r asked Fo
garty, gloomily.
"I want you to tell me; in the name of all
that's blessed, did Silly go wid you wid her
own free will an' consent r
" Does sbe say sbe.did ?,I asked Peter, fix
ing his eyes with a mOckingeou on Bet's
face.
' Never heed whatshe says," said the widow , .
evasively ; but spake for yourself,'
" Whatever Nelly says is true," replied 1
Fogarty.
" But that won't do," reioinel Bet. " Her
people, ; more shame for &in), wont blieve her '
own story they're is black agin her as if she
was' no more to theta than a stone wall. If
was you. Pety ; •rd *eke oat to the truth, if it ,
was only to shame them."
Sirs. Fagan was e skillful diplotnate, and
had very cunningly spoke the last words. •
" Does Seny carne me r asked Fogarty.
a Ouse you.Petyl i.h„ not ahe Nelly ma%
the one to came you. let who will - bat she's
Irene her life oat about everything D'ye
think she forgets the time whets- yon an' she
was mortis', an' coo swot higher than meself ?
Curse yea, indeed ! hatfraid it was only too
welt she liked voa always, an'there's the truth
lot Ytm poor el d . abei by as *she is
an infaat riow. Viipst dead m me hotise at
ticOkei ; an' thereioefosi O' bee Rao* pnt
ltir.fclot inOdtabe - 400e."
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dammitrolgrerbieves.in the house 1 Ice's
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"Bore there's .time Jour confes
sion, anyhow." replied .Bet, is a businesslike
manner. ." It wouldn't take more than an
hour or , two to see Father SteCabe and Atli
him everything."
"Well, maybe you bad beat send him, l ola•
served Fogarty, after a pause.
" An' what 'ill you tell him ?" asked Bet,
who now began to entertain doubts about the
sort of confession Pety might make.
" tell him what's the truth."
" You'r not joking, Pety P'
" Sorra joke," replied the condemned man.
" But what's the truth ?" persisted the
widow.
" Father McCabe 'ill tell too," replied Fo
BfrtY•
" Pety," said Mrs. Fagan, solemnly, " re
mimbex that we'll part shortly. niver to meet
agin in this life, an' whatever you say, let it b ,
nothin' that 'ill b'lie Nelly." -
Fogarty looked impenetrable, and hurriedly
said
":tend Father McCabe."
As the turnkey came to say he must put an
end to the interview, Bet shook hands kindly
with Fogarty, just as she had, during her life
time, shaken hands with scores of men about
to be hung, and wiping some tears from her
eyes, left the gaol. Back again, through wind
and sleet, with the gathering gloom of night
descending upon all outward objects, the wid
ow went home. She was afraid to mention
any thing of her expedition to Telly, for fear
of further disappointment ; and when the girl
anxiously inquired where she had been all day,
she vaguely replied—
" Only a piece off, Mang', seein' a (rind,
an' I was delayed longer than I intinded."
"Whet day is this ?" inquired *telly.
It's Friday, sure."
" Saturday, Sunday, Monday," muttered
NOV, as if to herself, adding aloud, " there's
only three days more for him to live, Mn.
Fagan, hell be hung on Tumcday."
" Well, an' if be is, aura the world 'ill be
well red of him," replied Bet shortly.
:idly said no more ; but the widow looked
uneasily at her as she saw her clasp her hands
convulsively together. A long silence ensued
only,hroken by the clinking of pots and pans,
and .the whirr sud.crackle of the blazing wood
that was fitlpitin. e' ` to get the supper ready.
Netly was sitting by the fire, looking beautiful,
though fearfully emaciated.
" What way d'ye feel the night ?" asked
Bet, after a long survey of her pale features .
" I feel: as if I was decd, Mrs. Pagan."
" Lord ibe good to us ! Howes that, an' you
sittin' there alive enough r
" I feel as if was dead, Bet Fagan, an' as if
God had cursed me so that I was condemned
to walk the earth, a spirit that nobody wanted
to see."
" les a sin to talk that wild way, agra,"
said Bet, looking a little alarmed. Kelly cer
tahly looked rather spectral ; but there was
the light of an unquenchable pride burning still
in her eye.
The next morning wasSatnrday,a wildAreary
day, and Bet went early to Father M'Cabe to
give him Peter Fogarty's message. The priest
was a good natured man, and he lost uo time
in repairing, in his gig, to Channel. Mrs.
Fagan saw him off with great satisfaction, and
yet, when he was gone, a dull misgiving cros
sed her mind that Fogarty might., puss - ihly,
make matters worse than ever by stating false
hoods in his dying confession.
" Musha, he was always full of tricks and
divilmint," she muttered as she wett home •
an' be no more cared for priest nor mass that;
the havthen."
This reflection induced Bet to take a gloomy
view ofaffairs for the remainder of the day
and she was glad that she had not given
any reason to hope. She felt very uneasy,
indeed ; and when she heard the well-known
rattle of the priest's gig returning, she ran oat
in the dusky evening to hear the worst at
enee.
" Well, yes rilcereaee, what news have you
for me 9 " she asked, 83 Father 31'Cabe alight
ed at his own house.
" You mustn't be impatient, Bet,' replied
his reverence, slowly and calmly ; " whatever
I have to say, you can't hear it till-ta morrow."
" Oh, mush*, Father John let me bear it
this rainnis," (titivated the widow, in &lawny
of suspense.
" To-morrow, Bet—ta morrow," repeated
the priest.
" Oh, it's no good moaned the woman,
striking her hands together. " Sore, if it was,
you'd /sake it out at wont."
" You must hear all things patiently," re
joined 'rather 31'Cabe, gravely.
"Oh, sorra bit o' natienee ever; I had, your
riverenee,” said Bet, with frankness. "If
you'd tell me at won't what news pm hare,
I'd sleep sound the night." , -
"To-morrow I will—not tiil then."
"To-morrow's Sunday, au' sure there'd be
three masses an' a sermon, an' it 911 be alt hours
afore I can see yer riresenee to sprite to_"
"Never mind that. Come to mass, just as
you do every Sunday, and. don't be thinking
of anything but your prayer;" replied Father
John. its 'he unrelentingly entered his house
and closed the door:
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Tax Sandal broke, over the, world Welt
sod elondless, and - from far and near the horn
ediinlifir4iiek.a bright k•ht &Aid it peasants
eta 7to - Farber -IPCiabee chapel. Bat
DigagOr lowsai, got ready: for twelve o'clock
Atata.. andas she left the hooie sbereconnaended
tole attenikin of old sorry Croon.—
," ihip4 reas:ricimadi*encirdedibat dot.
Betibind some 'Malty is psih Be? way
Ihrangit thaoaarof people, that thronged the
building. The Dillon Terrlthera,, praying*.
m 4 and wrinkrinthenstelres.erell with
tolyWater";,lulalleilalty4:enold be' tax
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Anil istesirmit deictkir
Mop Ink* ilieratt. Sim sinsystbeirselt: bock
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greatir.' At length the sermon commenced.
Evelbody was attentive. A pin tnigbt bare
been beard dropping. so still was the
,congre
gation, At the conclusion of the distourse,
Father. Weabe, according to custom, entered
into some secular affairs of the parish' -, asked
why Jack Molloy hadn't brought in his harvest
dues months ago, like everybody else; threat
ened to denounce any man that had been con
cerned in cutting off Tim Brogan's cow's tail,
and painting his horse's skin ; arm declared his
intention of horse-whipping; whoever it was that
nailed Mary Hannegan's three fine hens to her
own door. The worthy pastor kept his most
remarkable piece of information till the last,
summing up all by an astounding, disclosure—
" And now, good people," said he, as he
turned his face fall . round to the congregation,
" I'm going to tell you something that'll as
tonish and gratify you all ; and it's ooless that
I have it in my power to declare to you this
blessed day that Pat Dillon's daughter, Melly,
is as innocent as the unborn ebild. I heard
the confession from Peter Fogarty's own lips,
in Clonmel gaol, yesterday ; and it was his wish
that I would tell it before, you all this day."
Here followed, amid the breathless silence
of the hearers, a brief, but correct, account of
events which the reader is already acquainted
with ; and when Father John ceased to speak,
a che er burst from the crowd that shook the
chapej windows, and made the image of the
Virgin over the altar sway from side to side
perceptibly. A rtish was made from the build
hit, without delay ; and Bet Fagan, beingnear
the door, 'got out rst, and with the speed of
lightning rushed to her own house, where she
communicated to Kelly the glad tidings, she
had heard, and which sere now known to
everybddy, far and near, in the parish. On
being made acquainted with this intelii , ence,
:idly slowly arose from he bed, where she had
been reclining. d, bright dash was in her eye,
but speech seemed to fail her, for she uttered no
word.
•' Oh, thin, it's meselfs the glad woman this
day I" exclaimed Bei, clapping her hands, and
swaying her large bead to and fro. N4rry
Croon now confronted ber, with her hands in
her sides, and her withered face agitated in
every feature—
•• Didn't I tell yon, Bet Fagan, that I never
believed a word again' Nelly Dillon. Didn't I
say she wasn't the one to disgrace ber people?"
" Ye did, -Sorry, ye did," murmured the
widow, who was now fairly shedding tears of
thankfulness.
A Mighty surging sound was now heard with
out, and preently the doorway was blocked
up by figures all eager to enter the house.—
Pat Dillon, with his wife and daghter, Kitty,
were given precedence, of course, and rushing
in, they frantically embraced Nelty, who stood
upright in the middle of the floor.
" Stand back, all o'ye !" said Mrs. FtWan,
as she motioned to the crowd outside to keep
off, and, obeying her commands, the people
'moved front the door, leaving Nelly'a relatives
to speak to her in peace.
" .Nelly, my own jewel, you'll come back to
your poor father wont more ! ecried Dillon,
triumphantly.
" An' it's Dinny Ryan's the proud man this
day ! " exclaimed the mother, weeping. Kitty,
unable to utter a word, hong upon his sister's
neck, shedding tears. Nelly made no reply to
any expression of endearment, and returned no
caress. When Dennis Ryan rushed joyously
into the house, and prepared to seize her hand
with enthusiasm, the girl drew back proudly.
and in a voice that thrilled through theuerves
of her hearers, spoke out at last—
" Keep Lack, Dennis Ryan ! keep hack all
o've ! You're uothiu' to me, nu'l'm nethiu' to
ME
"Neily, dear Nell,. !" said Bet Fagan, re
bakinaly.
'• Ay, nothin' to me," repeated Nelly, with
flashing eyes, while the proud dilation other
beautifully formed nortrils lent an expression of
wondrous power to her countenance. A pain
ter might have chosen her as a personificutiou
of proud woman's Indignation—" I'm nothin'
to one o'ye ! "
" yig," said Dillon,
,soothingly, " you
are the mime to me you ever were. You're me
owe pet child again !"
" But you're are not the same to ale," repli
ed Kelly; bitterly.
" I am ! I am, me poor child," continued
Dillon ; " an' you're father's house is there
ready to receive you this tainnit : so yon had
bet come at woast"
" Never !" cried the girl, vehemently.—
"Never will I, crow the threshold of the door
that shut me out in the dark night. No, Pat
Dillon ;Pm your daughter no longer. I've no
father nor mother, tor sister, nor brother, ! I
har'nt one to love me hut the man that ' ll be
bong in the front of Clonunel gaol the day
after to-morrow 1 .
" Nelly, seeable l " murmured Bet _Fagan,
reproachfully
- - YOU were kind to me, Bet Fnan !" said
Nelly, takkr her hand ; " an' you, Norry
Croon, knew rue better than my own people ;
yo u ,trustell me more than the man that want
ed me for his Wife ; still there wasn't one o' ye
fared - and trusted me like Peter Fogarty. Wid
all his aims on his head, an' great wrong as
be done mew and great sorrow as he gave
my heart, Pd marry him this blessed day. in
Father M'C.lbe's chapel, if he was here. free
out of prison!' -
-The tsethhors had by this time gathered i
intotthe home ; sad stool tooting on egiest— i PROM' Goon rintrnatorsesrm-a.eebool-
Whispess ran round to tbe effect-that Neil; i m'au out West tens the inikurist riebineblem:
mor / t bars grown light in her head ;,tint Some -; - She was teaching ostratiliehotil in nosll
- were that thought she "saved her peo- kiuirg town. and I",boorrling.rolivd,!, ths ow
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- . - 4 tug a - sew +lave," onAenday . nom, she sea
~- "TotilleOritei bomb this ninuit !''vi e d - Pat . tie; herself with the family corind s_rms..ll
Dillon, arbasuager was - law roam!. sad bet pine table. and made n =go( ber4l l - '4.
OM KO. teltake his OalWineee Osnsio a - fizin ; fat filed ilea; and roost 4 01 4 1 Infei:" 4rist fie
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mese& ano th er toot to shelter melts thisyntid haw *bee "05' [' Do von indeed rex -
Pd petisb *bee than pat a foot inside year led thi - sehxigneam. not knowing
balm I 1 kinred yes wrist, , ;limed y;our. whit to say, and Ashamed to say nothing
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strove to like another tilt I did like sod
gave my prongs* tooutvritli4ssak, God
sees it I.Mil piomiso I'd, have 11 blot Um
sorry to the heart now that evetl
for the love I threw away was the- of trse
love awes.: ye all I Ay, rety Fogarty Nair
derer, robber, whatever you are, ~&'.d PAM You
this mionit if you were here to to ate .08,
we'll be together soon enough IR, :
Fiercely wroth, Dillon • made vusihar% tpih
towards the eseitedzgirl, iSit tutuay isao44Asu
hint back. -
" You'll not lay a Boger on,her 1-7 -.aboutel.l
the voice of Bet Fagan. " Ye.,dessrve
every one o' ve, fbr yet rwerwlike Turks to her
ate ye know it _ - .
Mrs. Dillon looked-nearly -as-stern,4o ;her
husband; end her sous; who were wow enter
ing, would have almost torn .their,wistex 4 l4l,
from limb, so grelit . ass their indignation, bad
not the crowd , lo „Chem out aeitk. itn
much bustle ensued, itrengt% tleesuse
exhausted, and seeing her in ay, to aiiirikic:ss
she stood in the centre of tkelee r kifeersgan
rushed to catch Ler in 'bier' era 'lto' errs
head dropped heavily on h Steilldei'; end 66,
lug the expression or her testiirk:NO.o O r ikni
shrieked out—
" She's dym', she's' dyke; lase the house
every one o' ye :"
The croid tell back
,is Norry sis k vest bit
hand to them, but the Dillon did intmovti.l—.
Bet laid Nelly on the GO, isa srs. Diilou , qw
overcome with a thothe f es feelings, unforwistd
to her; bat gathering up all her strength "the
girl pushed the unfortunate wouait. away 'kin
hei with scorn and indignation.
I'at Dillon at length burgt into tears, - -lid
wrung his hands despairingly.
"Nelly,Nelfy !" he rzclaiaied wirilly,":wOtet
ye look on yer own father, au* ;4 yelarilva
him
Fixed and glazed, the daughter's eyes were
fastened on vacancy ; the things of this siert('
bed vanished from their sight forever ; the
lifeblood was already growing stagnant in Vie
veins.
" She's dead." whispered Sorry Croon, bend
ing over her ; "the breath's gone.* -
A wild cry, like the _shriek ut some latest
beast--discordant, ferocious,
through the room i • end rushing towards -the
bed, Pat Dillon seized the senseless' fortitt of
his child, in his arms. and boreit from alehouse
in a frenzy fearful to behold. The cabmen
screamed and ran after him ; but with the
speed of inaduess, he gained his own house ere
they could stop him. Flinging the corpse on
the bed in the kitchen, he exclaimed—
' " She'll not be waked a night out ti her fa
ther's house, any how," and then burst into a
hideous peal of laughter.
Bet remembered bin own wo spokes; the
morning after Nelly's disappea raice, that she
should never cross his threshold alive again.—
It was her duty to lay on* the dkd body, and
very mournfully she did it. Never had she
-dretstel out a fairer corpse. 'cue wake that
night in the Dillon' house was a strange one.
The neighbors from far and near had gathered
to it—all except Denis Ryan ; and though
there were pipes and tobaceo in abandance, and
t plenty of whiskey, there was little merrimiat.
One alone of those present joked and laughed
ith a wild revelry that struck litavor interim
hearts of the rest. This was the father of her
who lay lifelees before their eyes. The light of
reason had vanished forever from Pat Dilkin's
mind ; and when his cbikra corpus was havered
into its last earthly resting place upon thesame
day that witnessed the execution and burial of
Peter Fogarty, he clapped his hands, naming
L unearthly shouts of triumph. From thattime
I he was a confirmed maniac, gradually sinking
into idiocy_ His family became scattered; the
eons departed to Americo and Australis - his
wife, and daughter Kitty, did not surviv e their
ansforiunes very lone ; and Pat became alai.-
erable object, wandering from town to town,
I generally . attired in a caseoffsoleierlitmiforim
He w:s, soon well known at Tholes, Clammed,
and Cashel ; and tillitia hair was grey, and his
form bent with age, he continued., to,live a
1, poor idiot. His feral passed into other' hands.
i The wails of the house arc black and, old
now, reader, but they stand still ; and though
Pat is long dead, 14 unhappy story. Sad, the
meancholy fate of his 'favorite child, is 1(01
spoken of in the • neighborto, though Bev
I FaZ3ll and Sorry Cioon, like many oftheir
contemporaries, have been gathered to . the — tr
I eternal dwellings.
ITOSIM 31 - rtratit..--Dspue uot thy moth
er when she is 4' I Age may , w(pirsaandlfaste
a mother's beauty, ytiength, time see,us and
estate ; but her relation`as a mother the
son which gorth foqh 4 his asi r ' ,,, ht,'„ for it is
always in the meridian,`and I - non - eh nia even
ing. The petstan*yr begale' yheaUled, but" TNT
Motherly relation islever inits Nerish. It may
belatitumn, yes winter," with a; stomata, tint with
the mother, as n.other, it is' alwaYsl'spring ; ',::-
Alas, how little dolwe appreciated.% mother's
tenderness white 'Brill"! how heedless bro . we
in youth sit all her anxieties and4indneir !
Out shot she is dead and artigone=whes the
cares and coldnes t ttie world vane wither
ing to our heart- , L.wherr , isre - experience - bow
hard it is ro find trim sympathyr-how feil tree
CIS for oarselves—how-few will befriend us is
tagsfortune—then it is titat tbialr,otithe
another we have toi-t.
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