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The door opened. It was but Cathleen, with her lady's excuse, and wishes for Captain Waverley's health and happiness. It was noon when the two friends stood at the top of the pass of Bally-Brough. 'I must go no farther, said Fergus Mac-Ivor, who during the journey had in vain endeavoured to raise his friend's spirits.
The college audience is always a selected audience, and has a right to expect from the college players dramatic caviare. That Wellesley is moving in the right direction may be seen by reading a list of her senior plays, among which are the "Countess Cathleen", by Yeats, Alfred Noyes's "Sherwood", and in 1915 "The Piper" by Josephine Peabody Marks.
She therefore quietly led the way to a spot at such a distance from the cascade that its sound should rather accompany than interrupt that of her voice and instrument, and, sitting down upon a mossy fragment of rock, she took the harp from Cathleen.
Influenced by these feelings, the Chief now led Waverley in quest of Miss Mac-Ivor, not without the hope that the present agitation of his guest's spirits might give him courage to cut short what Fergus termed the romance of the courtship. They found Flora, with her faithful attendants, Una and Cathleen, busied in preparing what appeared to Waverley to be white bridal favours.
She therefore quietly led the way to a spot at such a distance from the cascade that its sound should rather accompany than interrupt that of her voice and instrument, and, sitting down upon a mossy fragment of rock, she took the harp from Cathleen.
Lincoln's letter from the "Lost Townships" was such a success that they followed it up with one in which "Aunt Rebecca" proposed to the gallant auditor, and a few days later they published some very bad verses, signed "Cathleen," celebrating the wedding. Springfield was highly entertained, less by the verses than by the fury of Shields.
The yellow pool has overflowed high upon Clooth-na-Bare, For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air; Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood, But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood Is Cathleen the daughter of Hoolihan.
There are but four red-coats at Tully-Veolan, and their muskets would be very useful to us. To these broken remarks Edward made no answer; his ear indeed received them, but his soul was intent upon the expected entrance of Flora. The door opened it was but Cathleen, with her lady's excuse, and wishes for Captain Waverley's health and happiness.
Those were the nights when the Countess Cathleen loveliest of Yeats's Irish ladies found Paradise and the Heavenly Host awaiting her on a Wellesley hilltop when she had sold her soul to feed her starving peasants. But the glamour of the sun is as potent as the glamour of the moon at Wellesley.
'I disclaim it, ma belle demoiselle, although I protest it would be the more congenial of the two. 'Admirable, Cathleen! cried the Chieftain; 'I must find you a handsome husband among the clansmen one of these days. Cathleen laughed, blushed, and sheltered herself behind her companion.
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