That would be a quare way of showing your love to Mr.Harman." "I shall meet him, then," said Mary, "at the stile behind the garden; and may God direct and protect me in what I purpose!" Poll gave no amen, to this, as it might be supposed she would have done, but simply said-- "I'm glad, Miss M'Loughlin, that you're doin' what you are doin'.

It'll be a comfort maybe to yourself to reflect on it hereafther.

Good night, Miss." Mary bade her good night, and after closing the shutters of her room which she had come to do, retired; and with an anxious heart returned to the parlor.
M'Loughlin's family consisted of three sons and but one daughter, Mary, with whom our readers are already acquainted.

The eldest, James, was a fine young man of twenty-three; the second, Tom, was younger than Mary, who then was entering her twenty-first; and the youngest, called Brian, after his father, was only eighteen.

The honest fellow's brow was clouded with a deep expression of melancholy, and he sat for some time silent after Mary's return to the parlor.