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VOL.
VIII.
CONTE TS.
Page: 1. 2 .1 5.-Disappointed Ambition; oi-, Wedded and 51.ngIcvA1
Tale or the Day. by Agnes M. 5!-CWI1l’1(C0ntlnlIt'.4l).
or, The Catechism in Examples (oontmlxedl.
same of B New Catholic Church at Nortliwirli, England. The 0'Noln'ns.
Catholic Anecdotes;
Laying the Foundation
Pages 4 5; s.4.msi Irish News. Catholic Intelligence-Foreign.
um-lug of the Catholic Congress for isc-1 at Mnlines, he.
Pages 5 R 7:-Foreign and Home Miscellany.
Pass 8 & 9.-4I‘hc Catholic Congress at Malincs. Catholic Cl.Ifll‘ItyATh0
Brothers of St. John of God. Lower Canada and the Provincial Confedera-
tion. Irish Colonization. Our Dublin Correspondence. The Situation.
Lieut.-Col. McGee. oniinati-me. Down with tho Gold.
Phys: 10 5: ll.7I‘or,try-Angry Words. Sketches of Summer '1'i-uve1-
Luke oimnpmn to zaonm-iu. Correspondence from Atlanta. Ga... and
Xssl1ville,Te'nn. Great "ictoiy of siiei-mu. over Early in tho Sllennndollh
Valley. rm ix. on Popular Education.
huge: 12 a )3.-Philadelphia Correspondence. Catholic Intelllgencev
Domestic. Compliments to the New Archbishop. Another vicmy by
Sheridan-Early Again Defeated. Sherman 1-enux Hood. Dedication Dfthe
Ynsaionistldonastcry. New York Markets. Advertisements.
rigs: 14, 15 az lli.-Advertisements.
1 said the Admiral.
Lucy ?--Does she, like her, ridicule alike her fzitherls
rigid Dissent and her mother's Catholicism ‘.‘-Tell
me frankly, love, what you think of Ruth; for. if she
Se at all like Lucy, she may not find :1 home at Rivers-
ale.”
“ I watehcvl Ruth carefully, pupa,” replied the girl,
“ during my late visit at Rose Villa, for I Wished when
I left River-sdale to ask you to let her come here, she
is so very miserable at home. Poor Ruth is very
plain, you know; and whilst Lucy and Miriam seem
to me to be the best beloved of their mother, on ac-
count of their beauty, and especially Lucy, as that
same beauty has Won for her a wealthy husband, poor
Ruth is scarce treated like one of the family; she
seems isolated from them-treated like some worth-
less thing not of themselves. The poor child is disre-
garded by her mother, tyrannized over by her sisters,
plainly told that she is ugly and dull of comprehen-
sion, and uncared for by her father, because, having
spent much of her time with her poor old grandmo-
ther, Mrs. Clifton, she is not so utterly without re-
ligious principle as her brothers and sisters; but will
Vnrisarrornrnn AMBITION ;
WEDDED AND SINGLE.
A TALE or THE DAY.
BY AGNES M. STEVVART.
Arr11on2<s or “run wounn AND run cnoxsrnu,” 2'rc., nrc.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Tun rich sunset of a beauteous summer eve had
tinged with a golden glow the park and mansion of
Riversdale, a pretty village in one of the Southern
Counties, stealing through the easement. windows of
the old red brick mansion, and shedding its roseate
hue over a little party who were seated in its old
library, gliding the sunny tresses of a fair girl whose
arms are thrown around the neck of a woman some
thirty-seven years of awe, but with whom time had
dealt gently withal; for? the countenance of Esthers
or it is of her we speak-has lost nothing of the ex-
pressive sweetness which it bore of old, having but
0 tinged into a subdued and matronly loveliness‘-the
rich gddenihair scarce yet revealing a silvery thread
mthe fair cheek, mayhap, palerethe eye less bright
ut an air of quiet happiness thereon thoucrh at thiei
moment a touch of sadness steals ovei- her lizce.
Before her stands her husband, now Admiral Sey-
mour, his hand on the head of the fair girl who forci-
MY reminds him of Esther as she was when first he
Haw her kneeling by the side of his dyina mother his
HP“ invoking a blessing on her head and the happi-
“955 they both feel is tempered by sorrow for they
PM on the morrow with their child who his refused
“Mendid alliance with a noble hoiise to become a
novice amongst the Sisters of Charity. i
Gently fall the words of the young girl on the ears
01' her parents as-on this the last evening she ma
rrhpsz ever iipend with those she loves in her ofd
“$‘5uI:’-hRive':rsda1e-slhe prefers her request: b
,m‘e’wiIlwr1Dle;s1xe1::el-‘te athplhe is sohygerynmisfra 13 at
parents ?” Y r my p e, y W11 ear
F.‘t,E%‘l1.l>l;]Aslt1geyiill your place, my darling !” exclaimed
$.f“,:,vr?es5rin'ne“57.f.Z'.“.”li.iEi‘,?bi‘f.:‘.-.;';‘%‘3.5i? "‘-‘$3.. my
. - :
neveiliggtfjg ,')n’1Y new? be; the place you vacate
M 8 made up to me, even it our little
“'5' ‘were old enough to leave the school-room.
‘'9 Y0“ PP '50 God, my Madeleine, for He de-
feayonl-11.1? saeniice; but long and painfully shall we
urging tocli; Jzllizigay Z351. Seymour?” tshe adiliztri,
1mg.Hmt request ?” - are we gran our
in hard
to determine,” replied the Admiral.
"11! Rllow Ruth to come here, but fear
w en at home, steal oil‘ to the Abbey
Chapel. A poor neglected thing is that tall, ungainly,
dark-complexioned Ruth Ashley, papa; and, yet, I
have often thought, when I have noticed the tear
steal under the cold kiss of her mother, and the con-
temptuous indifference of her sisters, and observed
the hasty endeavor to repress that emotion, that a
rare gem may, perchance, be-hid beneath that rude
casket. Will you give Ruth a trial ?” added Made-
leine, “and see if my ideas be correct.”
“ But think you Ashley will let his (laughter come ?"
inquired the Admiral. “ You know, my child, how
very roughly our overtures of assisatnce have been
received in their late reverse of circumstances.”
“ I have no doubt but that they will be glad to get
rid of her,” rejoined Madeleine, “ seeing that she is no
favorite with any of them. However, if you will al-
low me, perhaps it will be less formal for me to write
afew lines as from mamma, inviting her to spend
just afew weeks here; and as the ice has been 21
little broken by your having taken Samuel olf my
gra.ndfather‘s hands, and
weeks at Rose Villa, they are not likely to refuse, and
then the invitation to Ruth can be lengthened, or not,
as you wish later.” .
“ Go, then, Madeleine,” replied the Admiral, “ and
write a note to your grandfather at once, your
mother and I Will take a stroll in the park, and be
sure you join us as soon as your letter is written.”
On a gently-sloping lawn before the mansion which
the Admiral had chosen for his abode, was his
younger daughter, Mary, some eleven or twelve years
old, with two fine boys who now bounded forward
at his a roach. One child only was absent from
Riversdale, this was his eldest son, Everard, who was
an ecclesiastical student at St. Omer. But we will
leave Esther for awhile, who is happy as she deserved
to he, and with our reader's leave, look back a little
into the events which have taken place during the
long eriod of seventeen years, which have elapsed
since ‘stherls wedding day.
CHAPTER XXV.
Scvcsruus years! what a long term it really is in
the brief span of our mortal day; how long a time to
look forward to, yet how short does it appear When
we look back. In that space of time the aged in a
family sink into the grave, youth merges into the ful-
119.5 of manhood, the gdrl into ‘the ripened maturity
of the woman; and the hope with wpiols. they set out
in life 'm not unfrequently bhghted 111 its yery bud,
leaving in the heart the canker worm of disappoint-
ment, or, if that hope be realized, the desire msyhap
cometh not till the rich brown hair is wreathed with
many a silvery thread, the brow marked with the
lines caused by anxiety and care.
Of the characters whom we have introduced to our
readsrs, man have sunk to their rest. The ami-
able Amelia arcourt has long since ast away, and
Ross. has tied to the calm of the peace ul cloister, un-
of her early bringing up should be pro-
able to endure that solitary home; for the one link
A FAMILY JOURNAL.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, IJCTOBER 1, 1864.
I have recently spent a few hf
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‘ductive of mischief to the young people here. What that hound her to earth has been rudely snapped
ithiuk you, Madeleine, of this young aunt of yours 1”’ asunder by inexorable death. Mrs. Clifton, too, is no
Is she as untamed as her sistcinmore, as also the Admirals aged father, with many
other of the inlinbitnnts of Torquay.
The beautiful home in which our old friend Lucy
spent the first years of her wedded life is no longer
hers; for Mr. Ashley took it into his head, some
years since, to speculate largely in mining transac-
tions and railway companies, and doing t us, has
managed to speculate away many thousands of his
own handsome fortune; so that the Oaklands was
sold to a rich cotton merchant, who owned many
mills in the North-“ and, with his usual provoking
obstinaey,” writes his wife to her friends, "' Ashley
insists on tskin a small and unassuming villa at
Mary-Church, thus adding to my mortification and
trial, because, forsooth, he will not leave the Taber-
uncle.”
For several long years Ashley never saw his
daughter. It was better for all parties, perhaps, that
it was so; but the touch of ailtliction wonderfully
sofiens the heart. And on the return of Everard
Seymour to his home-now promoted to the high
rank of Admiral-and on hearing from Esther of the
misfortunes of her father, he irnmediatvly proffered his
assistance; and then Ashley, yielding to circum-
stances, and humbled by his distress, thanked his son-
in-law for his kindly overtures, invited him to Rose
Villa, and accepted his olfer to take his eldest son,
Samuel-a graeeless urchin, some fourteen or fifteen
years of age-under his care, and bring him up for the
av 2
Strangely altered is Lucy, thought both Esther and
her husband; and she herself, who was slowly expi-
nting, by a life-long trial, the error of one false step,
felt an unusual tlutl er at her heart when the Admiral
and Esther entered, and thanked heaven that her lot
and theirs was cast in scenes so far apart.
But it is not now our purpose to dwell upon the
past, save in so far as sufficient to give the readerim
insight into what has occurred in the first portion of
our tale. We have now to show the effects on the
parties concerned, and their children, of a union in
which there were widely different opinions and rin-
ciples held, and to show how such uncongenial ele-
ments trench on the well-being and happiness of after
e.
It is the day after Madeleine's letter has been posted
to her grandfather, with whom. despite her resolution
to become a 11un, she is a bit ofa favorite, for he was
won by her gentle, unselfish disposition, and the family
party are seated in the small breakfast-room at Rose
Villa.
Let us describe them one by one. Reuben, our
old friend. Reuben is not much the worse for wear,
save that he has become rather corpulcnt, and his
once dark hair is now somewhat of an iron-grey; his
countenance is much as of old--his lirs, always com-
pressed, show the same firm determination of pur-
pose; and if his family do not entirely love him, he
can at least inspire fear; for the young people quickly
learned, as their mother had done before them, that
there was a will before which all must bend.
Doing the duties of the breakfast table is a faded
woman, the once beautiful Lucy; she is but six years
the senior of Esther, but might be fourteen, so great
are the ravages which an ill-assorted union, mental
anxiety and care have made on what was once an un-
usually attractive countenance. The aquiline features
are now too sharp, and the consequence of anaturally
uneven and fretful temper have exhibited themselves
in the expression of her countenance. She is attired
in a neat morning dress, and looks pale and haggard;
but Lucy is not content to fade when her daughters
begin to bloom, at least in the eyes of the world, and
ere the day he on the wane tlvose pale checks will
have borrowed somewhat of afalse tint wherewith to
lend them a touch of the natural glow lost rather by
care than by the hand of time.
By her side is her eldest daughter Lucy, tho coun-
terpart of what she herself was at her rlaughter’s
age; she is her mothcrls most favored child. and ere
long will marry one ‘who is reputed wealthy.
Then we have Miriam, whose golden tresses,violet.
eyes, and tall and gueenly form have earned her the
name of La belle Miriam; and beside her, and she cer-
tainly acts as a capital foil, is seated :1. girl of four-