where you are."

They accordingly went in, and after about the space of ten minutes she
recovered herself so far as to make Hanna repeat the intelligence which
the simple-hearted priest had, with so little preparation, communicated.
Having listened to it earnestly, she laid her head upon Hanna's bosom
and indulged in a long fit of quiet and joyful grief. When she had
recovered a little, Father Magowan entered at more length into the
circumstances connected with the changes that had affected her lover's
character so deeply, after which he wound up by giving expression to the
following determination--a determination, by the way, which we earnestly
recommend to all politicians of his profession.

"As for my part," said he, "it has opened my eyes to one thing that
I won't forget:--a single word of politics I shall never suffer to
be preached from the altar while I live; neither shall I allow
denouncements for political offences. The altar, as the bishop told
me--and a hard rap he gave Mr. M'Pepper across the knuckles for Bryan's
affair--'the altar,' said he, 'isn't the place for politics, but for
religion; an' I hope I may never hear of its being desecrated with
politics again,' said his lordship, an' neither I will, I assure you."

The intelligence of the unexpected change that had taken place in favor
of the M'Mahon's, did not reach them on that day, which was the same,
as we have stated, on which their grandfather departed this life. The
relief felt by Thomas M'Mahon and his family at this old man's death,
took nothing from the sorrow which weighed them down so heavily in
consequence of their separation from the abode of their forefathers
and the place of their birth. They knew, or at least they took it for
granted that their grandfather would never have borne the long voyage
across the Atlantic, a circumstance which distressed them very much. His
death, however, exhibiting, as it did, the undying attachment to home
which nothing else could extinguish, only kindled the same affection
more strongly and tenderly in their hearts. The account of it had gone
abroad through the neighborhood, and with it the intelligence that the
auction would be postponed until that day week. And now that he was
gone, all their hearts turned with sorrow and sympathy to the deep and
almost agonizing' struggles which their coming departure caused their
father to contend with. Bryan whose calm but manly firmness sustained
them all, absolutely