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THE IRISH ORPHAN IN AMERICA. 141
you some advice that you may find beneficial. But, hush !
here 's Mr. Talbot".
" Oh, then, your reverence, just give me your blessing,
and I '11 be off before he gets in", and, kneeling at the
feet of the venerable man, he meekly bowed his head, and
received the benediction ; then rising, he darted from the
room by one door, just as Mr. Talbot entered by another.
CHAPTEE IX.
WILLY BEGINS TO FIND FAVOUR IN MR. WEIMAR'S SIGHT.
[ATHER FITZHERBERT was gone, and
Willy Burke sadly felt that he had lost a
second father—ay, " lost", said he to him-
self " for sure he looked like a corpse for
some time past, and then, when the
doctors ordered him to go to Ireland for
the good of his health, they must have
thought him far gone—lost he is to me, then, I 'm afraid
and that 's the heavy loss all out ; for who will advise
me, and take the same trouble with me that he did ?
Father O'Hara, God bless him, seems just as kind and as
fatherly ; but he doesn't know us as poor Father Fitzherbert
did, nor he can't speak to us of our mother, and
put us in mind of following her example. Well ! well
its God's will, I see, that we 're to be left altogether to
ourselves, and sure we have him always to look to for
comfort and support : so all we have to do is to keep his
commandments before our eyes, and apply to him when
; !