"'There is a soul just delivered from Purgatory!' It was found
to be a frog dressed in red flannel."

KIRWAN.


Florence having succeeded, as she imagined, in convincing her aunt
that it was advisable to remove from San Antonio, slowly proceeded to
the churchyard, little dreaming that the door had scarce closed behind
her ere Aunt Lizzy, with swift steps, directed her way to the house
of the Padre, He was writing, but gave his attention, and heard,
with ill-disguised chagrin, that Florence distrusted his promised
protection.

"Does she doubt in matters of faith, think you?" he eagerly inquired.

"Indeed, Padre, I cannot say. All I know is, that she and Mary sat
till midnight, reading and talking, and she has not seemed like
herself since."

"Where shall I find Florence?" said he, taking his hat.

"In the churchyard, I think, beside her father's grave."

"Say nothing to her, but apparently acquiesce in her plans; and, above
all, do not let her dream that you have told me these things."

Ah, Florence! who may presume to analyze the anguish of your tortured
heart as you throw yourself, in such abandonment of grief, on the tomb