a beautiful Irish proverb to that effect.

"The ways of Providence are beautiful when seen aright or understood,"
observed her brother. "She was too good to be punished, but not too
perfect to be tried. Their calamitous separation will enhance the value
of their affection for each other when they meet; for pure and exalted
as her love for him is, yet I am proud to say that Connor is worthy of
her and it."

That night her mother observed that Una spent a longer time than usual
at her devotions, and, looking into her room when passing, she saw her
on her knees, and heard her again sobbing with the grateful sense of a
delighted heart. She did not again address her, and they all retired to
happier slumbers than they had enjoyed for many a night.

Our readers have already had proofs of Una's consideration, generosity,
and common delicacy. Her conduct at the approach of her lover's trial,
and again when he was about to leave her and his country forever, they
cannot, we are sure, have forgotten. When her brother had shown the
official communication from the Castle, in which government expressed
its intention of bringing Connor and his parent's home at its own
expense, the Bodagh and his wife,--knowing that the intended husband of
their daughter possessed no means of supporting her, declared, in order
to remove any shadow of anxiety from her mind, that O'Donovan, after
their marriage, should live with themselves, for they did not wish, they
said, that Una should be separated from them. This was highly gratifying
to her, but beyond her lover's welfare, whether from want of thought or
otherwise, it is not easy to say, she saw that their sympathy did not
extend. This troubled her, for she knew how Connor loved his parents,
and how much any want of comfort they might feel would distress him. She
accordingly consulted with her ever faithful confidant, John, and begged
of him to provide for them, at her own expense, a comfortable dwelling,
and to furnish it, as near as might be practicable in the manner in
which their former one had been furnished. She also desired him to say
nothing to their parents about this, "for I intend," she added, "to have
a little surprise for them all."

About the time, therefore, when the vessel in which they were to arrive
was expected, a snug, well--furnished house, convenient to the
Bodagh's, amply stored with provisions, and kept by a daughter of
Nogher M'Cormick, awaited them. Nothing that could r