13: To a OM DAG she not permitted to speak one word to him; and could she have obtained her liberty, meek (though she was, it would have been no easy matter to have enthralled her again in the turrets of Inisture Bitterly did poor Ellen mourn over the tyranny she could not escape. She answered Carol's letter? for, strange as it may appear, she too was educated, and waited with some anxiety for the approach of midnight, that she might be able to drop it from the turret to her lover! The hour came with the leaden foot of Time, who is painted with wings, but in this instance the hours passed so slowly! that Ellen thought he had forgotten them. At length a drooping plume was seen waving in the blast, as Carol ascended the Mount of Inisture; nor could slie convey her letter in any other way, for the kind-hearted. Norah was interdicted from being a medium of communication between them on pain of losing her place. After being in the situa tion of Tantalus, that is, seeing the goddess of his idolatry without being able to speak to her, or take a parting embrace, he returned sorrowfully to Balclutha, leaving the fair Ellen in an agony of grief and despair and early on the following morning departed, with Lady Moina, for Dublin, accompanied by Father O'Donohue. The certainty of Carol More O'Daly's departure being ascertained, Ellen was allowed to leave the turret; and instead of being questioned upon the subject of her attachment to the young chieftain, she was compelled to receive the attentions of the stern and gloomy chief, Gilpatrick Mac Cormac, who had obtained her father's permission to address her. Ellen disliked and feared the dark chief, whose wealth, together with the apprehensions he entertained lest Carol should still attempt to marry her, induced Harold to wish he might be successful in his suit, and they both urged her strenuously to listen to his vows of love, constancy, and all the et ceteras that men really intend, but which the fickleness of their natures will not allow them to adhere to. She did try to listen to him to oblige her father, but not a word did she hear, so intently did her mind dwell upon the idea of the absent Carol-if she heard him but for a moment, it was only to make an odious comparison between his looks and manner of making love and that of Carol's, which she told 1 Norah was like comparing a bear to an Adonis. A month 9da blyos bars, min os brow are alsaga of bortumaq for silə expired, and there was no news of Carol another and another rolled on and still silence reigned within the balls of Balclutha no light was seen in its towers all was still, save the sighing of the stately willow, and the dull flitting of the drowsy batwoo ale of Is Clotho had been to Dublin, and on his return had an nounced, in his uncouth way, that Carol had embarked for England, and that Sir Nicholas Walsh, Lady Moina's kinsman, had reported that he was on the eve of marriage with an English lady of rank, Ellen heard no more, but falling senseless from her chair, was carried in that state to her bed, from which she did not arise for many weeks; and when she did recover, bstill remained in her turret to avoid the impor tunities of the hateful Gilpatrick, for her sufferings on ac count of Carol's desertion were beyond description, and she dreaded being compelled to listen to the protestations of the stern chief, the persuasions of her father, and the taunts of her sunfeeling brother; but resistance to the will of her parent was useless, for he tried to convince her, that if he were willing for her to be the bride of Carol, he, it is very evident, would not claim her as such, and that doubtless he was long since married, as report had predicted. -Carol had now been absent nearly a twelvemonth, and all hope font the part of Ellen of ever seeing him again had enstirely subsided; Norah, who had some influence with her fair mistress, believing that Carol was married, and that Gilpatrick was so desperately in love with her, that if she ‚married him, in time Ellen would become sensible of his attachment, and if she did not return it, would give him her gratitude, which is often an excellent substitute, and sometimes mistaken for the genuine feeling of love. Norah, therefore, opened her whole artillery of eloquence against the prejudices of her mistress and in favor of Gilpatrick, aided by Ellen's father, her confessor, and the hope of escaping [from under the roof of the unfeeling Clotho, they drew from ther a reluctant consent to be immediately the bride of the fond chief. To the great joy of all, a day was named for hher marriage; but, for some unaccountable reason, Clotho, husually grave and haughty, was overjoyed. Great preparadtions were made for the wedding; an ox and the fatted calf were killed; the forests scoured by the hunters to procure game Usquebaugh was was distributed in plentiful quantities among the followers of the chiefs; the chapel of Morven was illuminated, for the Since the 18f Harold's mother, marriage and and almost fainting Ellen Cavannah, dressed in virgin white, with Bunches of scarlet arbutus and dark green myrtle mingled amid her faxen Haff, looked more like a lamb decorated with flowers for a sacri fice than a bride for the altar of Hymen. Without respondto her by the priest Who ing to one of the question even bending in token of ad "I would fain hear it once more, for it brings happy days to my remembrance, days gone, alas! alas! never to return," and a tear trickled like a crystal drop adown her pale cheek. The prelude was again swept over the harp by no common hand, and with a touching sensibility, in a sweet and thrilling tone of voice, the harper played and sung the beautiful air of Aileen Aircon in pure Gaelic, the first line being translated, runs thus space me to wooloo ad olid began his co The bride fainted; it was the voice of her beloved Carol that she had heard, chamber by Gilpatrick, , left her in the care The shout of song and revelry were heard long and late within the portals of Inisture, and several hours had elapsed since Ellen had been carried fainting from the hall, when Gilpatrick retired for the night. Imagine his surprise on finding the gentle bird had flown! Great was the consternation and uproar that this discovery created; some thought she had drowned herself, and fled towards the lake; others supposed she had hidden herself; but none dreamed that in her bridal array, a attended by Norah, she had eloped with him; and Father O'Donohue having repeated the ceremony, Ellen Cavannah was the happy bride of e happy bride of the constant lover Carol More O'Daly, 0 td is blow by ader of never tasls !actsson aveb, gordoingast vit of .99do sleq 19 FROM THE ARABIC. 16 has 10 Thou sleep'st, while the eyes of the planets are watching," -linds Regardless of love and of melountstow bars DIVE F luti sleep, but my dreams, at thy lineaments catching, it gied Present me with nothing but thee. A mol Thou art changed, while the colour of night changes not, Like the fading allurements of day; todam changed, for all beauty to me seems a blot, bd al While the joy of my heart is away. bas qu galisbury zew betontrib teomis nidul 700¶ blow THE BENEVOLENT QUAKER udo od gwob 1918m 1ad (Concluded from page 126.) 01 dead asw SL PD de ved at .79d 992 blooda His long delays 1 It was indeed true; Lubin was returned. had been occasioned by the illness and death of his spoor.it old father, who had bequeathed him all his property; and he was now come to fetch Gillian to his native village,[{ where he wished they should live after they were marriedo He was wearied with his long journey, having walked upbe wards of a hundred miles; for in those days there werequ few opportunities of travelling but on foot, except for those lut who kept carriages, or could afford to hire horses. Lubin's heart danced with joy as he drew near Maybury; andy hes pictured to himself the jovial welcome of the old coupled and the blushing constrained pleasure of his pretty Gillian w He approached the door, and gave a smart rap, which not is being answered, he knocked again, and was surprised at being answered by old Cicely from the window; who, pre-ed tending not to know him, bade him go about his business; & d as she was busy. But Lubin not choosing to be answered! › so, she came down and met him outside the door, not giving him any invitation to enter the house. She informed him of Gillian's expected greatness, and told him ib he might be jogging while his boots were green, for she had not any thing to say to him; he remonstrated, but allto no purpose; the old woman only laughed at him, and I bidding him good bye, shut the door in his face, Resolved not to be so easily repulsed, he lingered about them cottage iu hope of seeing Gillian, and learning from her whether it was by her own consent she was goings to be dir married to the rich quaker; and while waiting, Farmer Easy returned from his corn-fields, where he had been directing his labourers. Lubin accosted him, but gained little satisfaction. Easy told him it was his wife's wish; she and Gillian had settled it all their own way, and he had nothing to do with it, as he never interfered with women's business, they knew best what pleased 'em and he advised him to seek for a wife in his own station of life, and think no more about Gillian; she was not for him, and there was an end. bedo ni vrta M |
