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86 WILLY BURKE ; OR,
mourn her but the desolate orphans "who stood conversing
together at the head of the grave.
CHAPTER VI.
THE BROTHERS IN THEIR NEW SITUATION.
;T was Thursday when the remains of
Widow Burke were laid in their restingplace
; and Father Fitzherbert, in his
prudent kindness, advised the two boys
to go on Saturday to the house of Mr.
Talbot, their new employer. " It will
divert your minds", said he, " from the
gloomy thoughts by which they are now occupied, and
also, by making your arrangements on Saturday, you will
be able to enter on your respective duties in the beginning
of the week. I myself will now conduct your little
sisters to their destination, where I have every hope that
they will find a comfortable home. Have you any matters
to arrange with Mrs. O'Grady ?"
" No, your reverence ', said Willy, his brother, mindful
of his past weakness, being evidently embarrassed
when in the priest's presence. '? We wanted her this
morning to take some good clothes of my poor father's
that 's there in the chest abroad, an' see if she couldn't
make something of them, in part of what my mother owed
her ; but she wouldn t consent to take anything at all,
because she said she had cancelled the debt altogether.
We 're goin' to leave them in the chest here, for Mrs.
O'Grady says she '11 make room for it below stairs ; we