I must leave you--I must go." "We will go up with you," said Kathleen.

"Hanna, we will go up; for, if she is in danger, I would like to get the blessing of such a woman before she dies; but let us trust in G-od she won't die, and that it's only a sudden attack that will pass away." "Do so, Kathleen," said her mother; "and you can fetch us word how she is.

May the Lord bring her safe over it at any rate; for surely the family will break their hearts afther her, an' no wondher, for where was her fellow ?" Bryan was not capable of hearing these praises, which he knew to be so well and so justly her due, with firmness; nor could he prevent his tears, unless by a great effort, from bearing testimony to the depth of his grief.

Kathleen's gaze, however, was turned on him with an expression which gave him strength; for indeed there was something noble and.

sustaining in the earnest and consoling sympathy which he read in her dark and glorious eye.