Willy Burke, or, The Irish orphan in America - Digital Repository ...

216 WILLY BURKE; OE,
would be granted. No one ever comes away disappointed
that prays to that loving Mother with a pure inten-
tion. Besides, Peter, I know very well that God sent
me that legacy that I might have a proof of my affection
to give you, and so to soften your heart. You see yourself
how beautifully all this has come round to bring you
back to the way of salvation, from which you were every
day going farther away".
" I do, I do, Willy", said Peter, fervently, " and I see,
too, all that I owe you. Ah, brother, brother, when you
were before the altar that time praying for me, its little
thoughts I had of either God or you. Now, thank God,
I am sensible of all that you have done for me. I see
that your two thousand dollars is but a small thing, a
mere trifle, compared with what your pious prayers have
obtained for me. Where are we going now ?"
" To tell you the truth", said Willy, with a smile, " I
had planned to take you to Father O'Hara's on your way
to Mr. Talbot's ; for I knew that you didn't know where
he lived, and I wanted to try the effect of his persuasions
on you, if mine had failed.
tion to come now
I suppose you 've no objec-
?"
" None at all", replied his brother ; "its the very thing
I M wish for".
Great was the joy of Father O'Hara when he learned
from Peter himself the wondrous change that Divine
grace had operated on his soul. " I told your reverence",
said the now happy Willy, " that our protectress wouldn't
forsake us now. You see she has obtained for us far
more than we dared to ask—blessed be her name for ever".
" Amen !" responded Dawson, as he entered, for he, in
turn, had been a listener in the vestibule. " I see you 're