Neal Malone, and Other Tales of Ireland (Volume 2). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Neal Malone, and Other Tales of Ireland (Volume 2)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... lost. Occasionally too he thought of his younger brother, whose marriage was soon to take place; but, as we have said, his beloved Eveleen was principally the subject of his reflections. Sleep, however, came not to him as usual. He thought too that he felt feverish and indisposed. Restless and pining under his sorrows, he lay awake until nearly half the night was spent, as he knew, by the rising of the moon that shone in, coldly and clearly, through the windows. At this moment a singular impression became exceedingly strong upon him; he imagined that Eveleen's spirit was about to present itself to his waking sight. The thought, however, was accompanied by no fear: an the contrary, a sense of gladness, a thousand times more vivid than that which is produced by. the appearance of an absent friend in life, pervaded his whole being. Actuated by the belief, he kept his eyes Jixed upon the room door and saw, whether real or imagionary matters not, the figure of his late wife enter the apartment. She proceeded across the room to the bed in which her orphans slept, stooped, and with her former tenderness of manner, adjusted the bed-clothes about them, for they had fallen off, sighed deeply after covering them, and exclaimed, in Irish, with her eyes turned towards him: " Gho wori dhe orth ma pasthia vogh!" May God have compassion on you, my dear orphans! Having uttered these words, she stooped again and kissed them. " Eveleen, life of my heart!" exclaimed Fergus, " won't you speak to him that is heart-broken, because you are not with him." She looked upon him with a smile of melancholy affection, approached his bed, and said, in a calm solemn voice:-- " Fergus dear, I am not angry with you. You are heart-broken; but you will soon be with me." She then bent over him, kiss...