rt never reasons--it
is, therefore, the seat of feeling, and the fountain of mercy; the head
does--and it is probably on that account the seat of justice, often
of severity, and not unfrequently of cruelty and persecution, Connor
himself was much relieved by that day's interview with his father. Even
he could perceive a change for the better in the old man's deportment.
Fardorougha's praises of Honor, and his strong allusions to the support
and affection he experienced at her hands, under circumstances so
trying, were indeed well calculated to prepare "her noble boy," as she
truly called him, for the reception of the still more noble message
which she sent him.

"Father," said he, as they separated that day, "tell my mother that
I will die as she wishes me; and tell her, too, that if I wasn't an
innocent man, I could not do it. And oh, father," he added, and he
seized his hands, and fell upon his neck, "oh, father dear, if you love
me, your own Connor--and I know you do--oh, then, father dear, I say
again, be guided in this heavy affliction by my dear mother's advice."

"Connor," returned the old man, deeply affected, "I will. I had made my
mind up to that afore I saw you at all to-day. Connor, do you know what
I'm beginning to think?"

"No, father dear, I do not."

"Why, then, it's this, that she'll be the manes of savin' your father's
soul. Connor, I can look back now upon my money--all I lost--it was no
doubt terrible--terrible all out. Connor, my rint is due, and I haven't
the manes of meetin' it."

Alas! thought the boy, how hard it is to root altogether out of the
heart that principle which inclines it to the love of wealth!

"At any rate, I will take your advice, Connor, and be guided by your
mother. She's very poorly, or she'd be wid you afore now; but, indeed,
Connor, her health is the occasion of it--it is--it is!"

Fardorougha's apology for his wife contained much more truth than he
himself was aware of at the time he made it. On returning home that
night he found her considerably worse, but, as she had been generally
healthy, he very naturally ascribed her illness to the affliction she
felt for the fate of their son. In this, however, he was mistaken,
as the original cause of it was unconnected with the heavy domestic
dispensation which had fallen upon them. So far as she was concerned,
the fate of her boy would have called up from her heart fresh energy
and' if possible a higher order of meek but pi