"To prevent the eternal disgrace of our family," was her impressive answer-" to save the name of Melven from utter and approaching infamy."

"The eternal disgrace of our family," reiterated the astonished young man; "my dearest mother, you surely jest-I wont say rave! By whom or with what disgrace is our family threatened? And am not I-its head-the chief of the name of Melven-the one to repel or revenge any wrong or reflection upon either?"

disaster and death? On what awful errand was | defiance, alike of American prescription and either bound? For nothing, he felt assured, feminine reserve, as to become the inmate of a but tidings of stern import would come from the single man's house? And now was Italia desliving woman any more than from an unearthly tined to pay the penalty invariably attendant on messenger. His slow steps had now brought a breach of this sort, from whatever holy and him close enough to ascertain that he saw be- generous motive proceeding: for never yet did fore him no vision of distempered fancy or im- woman violate, at the bidding of love, those formaterial being-but Mrs. Melven herself, how-mal restrictions, constituting at once her secuever strange, was there. An affectionate but so-rity and strong-hold, not only on the esteem of lemn greeting was all, at first, exchanged between the world but on the regard of her lover, without them; for Theodore's mind had been too highly finding herself punished, sooner or later, by the excited to recover itself at once, and his mother contempt of the very man for whom she dared, saw and resolved not to forfeit her vantage however innocently, to overstep the boundaries ground. In answer to his pressing offers, when of her sex. Theodore, wincing under the delimade, of refreshment and immediate rest, she cate discussion, betrayed this weak point to his positively refused both: he inquired, with much skilful assailant, and was at first silenced, less solicitude, after her health-" that," she replied, by her logic than by his own unacknowledged, "depended upon him." Recurring then to her but irrepressible shame at being bound to such sudden and late arrival, he begged to know a delinquent. In a moment, though the recolwhat had brought her down to Richmond in a lection came flooding over his heart of all that manner so mysterious, and for the first time his impeached Italia had then done and endured since his remembrance: she fixed her searching for his sake-of the virgin modesty of thought eyes full upon him-be eagerly repeated the and action, which, like a graceful drapery question. thrown about the perfect proportions of some "poetic marble," had ever tempered the depth of that fond self-devotion-and of the excuse for her inconsiderate trespass against the established usages of society here, in its conformity with the common and approved practice of her native Italy; abhorring himself for the cowardice that had faltered one instant, he vindicated her cause with the passionate eloquence of one pleading in defence, not only of a mistress, but of his preserver. But his prepossessed auditor, who listened in obstinate incredulity, was not With the look and gesture of the stern seer thus to be driven from her purpose; by turns commissioned to convict the royal Psalmist of she argued, she persuaded, and from expostulahis sin, she raised her hand, and pointing with tion descended to entreaty: the tone of her son's melancholy emphasis at Theodore, said, "Thou, rejoinder was respectful but resolute, in declinmy unhappy son, art the man about to inflicting any further contention on a topic so nice and both." And without a pause, or farther preface, she entered upon the subject of what she styled his amour with a wild Italian adventuress. She rehearsed the high standing and unsullied honor of their ancient house-rich, not merely in the superfluities of worldly wealth, but in the more precious possession of public esteem and private and transmissive worth, and placed them in strong contrast with the absurd pretensions and haughty self-conceit of a soi-disant (that, however, was not her word,) sprig of foreign and beggarly nobility, vainly priding herself on a few superficial accomplishments. But she was soon warned from this strain by the impetuous anger of Theodore, who, on fire at such imputations cast on his illustrious betrothed, burst into an indignant assertion of her rights-and his fancy, kindling with the theme, the voice of With these last words, he was turning from truth speaking from his lips shook and almost the apartment to summon a servant, when his triumphed over the Virginia prejudices of his mother intercepted him, with the agitating apunjust parent. Rallying herself, however, she peal-" My son, my son, my own, my only child! went on to represent-and here she touched the see your mother that bore you, and nursed you, right string-the dignity, the decorous obser- and bred you-your poor old mother begging vance and the immaculate purity of his female you, on her knees, to let her live out her few ancestry, on both sides; which of them, she asked last days, and die in peace within your arms. of the confused lover, would not have recoiled in See my gray hairs," and she pulled a long silver horror from the Itahan princessa's bold and un-lock from beneath her head-gear, of ancient sexual choice of a profession so public and pro-fashion, "imploring you not to bring them in miscuous in its exercise--or would not have died sorrow to the grave." And down she sunk, sobere they had been guilty of such an audacious bing at the feet of the distracted Theodore. Awe

vexatious. He assured his mother of all his duty and affection-thanked her warinly and sincerely for all her kind cares and uniform and attentive love for him, and even for this last, most painful evidence of it--but in the same breath he firmly declared his determination to surrender his princely bride to no human opposition, save what, he proudly added, was little to be apprehended, her own. He implored his angry auditor only to see and hear her future daughter-in-law, and offered to stake the issue of his engagement on the effect of that single conference. As to sneers and inuendoes directed against her selection of a reputable profession, they passed by him like the idle wind, provoking nothing beyond a silent contempt of their illiberality.

struck, his blood curdling at this act of mater-erted himself to refute his mother's false reasonnal abasement, he almost unconsciously pros-ings and uncandid statements, and to re-establish trated himself by her side, madly beseeching her the purity, the high desert, of his adored and to rise, and not to curse him by such a sight; but she retained her recumbent posture with such energy, that he was unable to raise her, except by a resort to actual force, exclaiming all the while, "No! no! here will I grovel till you relent and promise me, or I die."

traduced da Verdonaldi's conduct; little by little, however, the continual repetition of arguments and assertions, not intentionally, but actually incorrect, produced an impression which he strove not to resist, but to deepen. He was bound to his mother, by a solemn vow, to forego Like the Roman Coriolanus, Melven was van- all correspondence with his lost Italia; he was quished by the tears of a kneeling parent; he "from his true maiden's breast parted for ever." started to his feet, crying wildly, I promise, I Why not, then, strengthen himself under the promise! Do with me what you will, but this!" sentence of eternal separation, and cherish such and attempted to rush out of the room, but his consolation as their forlorn fate admitted, by brain reeled, his senses forsook him, and he was trying to think it best that they had not "marstretched motionless ere he gained the door. ried in haste to repent at leisure; and that their Mrs. Melven, fearful of yielding to the impulse bright visions of beatific bliss might have vanof natural feeling, and bent on rescuing her son ished before the discordant difference of educafrom a thraldom, worse, in her eyes, than death tion, sentiments, and nation, no less than at the itself, hastily called her attendants, ordered up blasting spectacle of an only parent prostrate at the carriage, which was kept waiting, and be- his feet? Theodore poured forth his whole emfore Theodore came to himself, they were a mile passioned heart in one last address to the object or two on their way to the family seat in Gooch-dearest to him on earth, and still most intensely land. The conflict of various and powerful emo- beloved, when renounced for aye in obedience tions proved, however, too much for a frame as to the mandate-how fearfully enforced!-of yet unconfirmed in strength; and the severe fit another and more sacred voice. Each burning of illness that ensued, compelled the travellers line, each frenzied phrase, too faithfully depictto stop at the house of a friend, on the road.ed the truth and tenderness of his undying love— There the proud and mistaken mother had a his unquenched longing after, fair opportunity to complete her cruel victory The wretched paradise of his despair,”— over the honor and inclination of her son. While ministering to his bodily ailments, with and the extremity of his suffering, under their exemplary tenderness and constancy, she per- sudden and final disunion. By Italia, the fondsisted in her misjudging inconsistency to irrítate est and most dutiful of daughters, he knew that in place of healing his wounded spirit; every the parental prohibition, sanctifying and exaim being secondary to that of perpetuating the plaining the mystery of his conduct, would be rupture between two noble and fondly attached acquiesced in as the ordinance of an holy oracle; hearts. In order to this, she used the nicest and that, however much feeling might be anmeans, alternately applauding and bestowing guished at the stern necessity of parting, prideher blessing on his heroic filial piety, and sooth- the breath of her nostrils, the very essence of ing him by her coincidence in his exalted opinion her existence-being thereby spared the keenof the Signora di Franzoni's worth; approach- est pangs, would come effectually to her support. ing the point by degrees, she ventured, after an That letter, so fraught with pathos and sinceriapparently arduous struggle between a desire to ty, had haply repaired the worst mischief done suppress and her duty to narrate, to assign as by Mrs. Melven's interference between them: the chief, nay sole reason of her severance accident or design diverted it, however, from its of their engagement, the death-blow given, destination. Long and piningly did the poor inas she averred, to Italia's reputation, by her in-valid await the receipt of one word of pardon nocent but most indiscreet error in doing at Richmond what, in her own country, she had been taught to hold as natural and proper as a wife's tendance on the sick-bed of her husband. Mrs. Melven pictured to the sensitive Theodore the horror, the injury to his whole family, the utter impossibility of his taking as the wife of his bosom, as the mother of his children, one who had thus-it might be ignorantly, but certainly-brought an indelible stain on the snow of her fair fame, and rendered her alliance matter of disgrace to any man weak enough to ac-about him, at first feebly-then with fierce vecept it. She well knew and wrought upon the hemence; they denied, and with truth, all knowfastidious delicacy of the lieutenant's nature, ledge of it: the missing miniature was long and ever and anon insinuating the discord and vainly sought for. It was gone for ever-the wretchedness inevitably arising from a union so sole memorial of his bella dama's love—the livill-sorted in habits, manners, and degree; and at ing image of her matchless self-the palpable last adding, that the poor girl herself, made pledge of their linked faith; she passed over his aware too late of her fatal false step by the agonized pleadings in cold disdain-and in a scoffs and sights of that community, had sud-state of passive despair he gave himself up to the denly withdrawn from Richmond in a clandes- guidance of his friends and the useless ministratine manner. At first, the agonized Melven ex- tions of his physicians.

and adieu from his idolized, but alas! too justly incensed princessa. Neither she or the venerable prelate, to whose care, in ignorance of his protegee's address, he had consigned the packet for her, deigned any response to his exculpatory epistles. The first thing thought of by the tortured lover, on his recovery to life, was the invaluable work of Italia's hand, ever pendant next to his heart; with a thrill of melancholy delight, he felt for the safety of his treasure-it was no longer there. He demanded it of those

Return we to the forlorn victim of all these | it on her lap-and she read her death-warrant false prejudices and ungenerous aspersions. The in the following lines. delicate details of the last interview between the affianced pair; and the near approach of that grand epoch in woman's life, had banished all sleep from Italia's soft eye-lids. Long after Theodore left her, she continued musing in the boudoir-till the tumult of mixed emotions, that sweetly stirred her mind, gradually subsided into the calm of perfect happiness. Philosophers have contended that extremes touch; and in the present instance their theory was triumphantly verified. As Italia leaned from the window, absorbed in a reverie sweeter than the adors stealing from the half-closed flowers into the star-light dews that bathed them, the joyous refinement of serene sensation sunk abruptly into the lassitude of utter hopelessness-a weight as heavy as the hand of despair seemed to press on her heart, and she sickened under the oppressive suffocation of the sudden change. Strange phantoms flitted before her uncertain sight-a boding voice was in her ear-and she experienced all the spectral and undefined horrors, occasioned by a strong visitation of the lemni nocturnes. The entrance of her ancient waiting-woman started her from this new and ominous trance; and all pale with terror, and beautifully dishevelled, the fair visionary flew into her arms as a refuge from the hideous crew appearing to beset her. The sympathizing Monica gently reproved her wild fancies, and would fain have represented them as the mere coinage of a dreaming brain; but Italia, unheeding her interpretations, went to bed, impressed with a sad presage of coming evil, that haunted and marred her weary rest through the deep midnight hours. The next day found the same gloomy idea still fresh on her mind, though she continued to deny her confidant a relation of what had passed before her in the vigil of the preceding night. "It was," she said," a stern-an awful vision-prophetic of wrath, and wo, and punishment to come; and unfolding a fate more dubious and dreary than imagination could paint, or female fortitude sustain.'

"You do an untitled Virginia family too much honor, madam, by intending to become a member of it. Plain people as we Melven's are, we deprecate and beg leave to decline the distinction. My son, too long your dupe, is restored to his senses; and, abjuring his late infatuation, has renewed a matrimonial engagement with a young cousin, whose undoubted dignity of station will scarce bear a comparison with the consequential assumption of an adventuress, from abroad, any more than her timid modesty would be equal to the performance of such pranks as an open and uninvited residence in the house of a single man. Sensible, nevertheless, of his obligations to the kindness, however suspicious, that watched over his sick-bed-but still more so of the delicate decorum, and proper observance indispensable in his wife-he prefers unadorned virtue, with a spotless reputation, to the allurements of accomplished art; and returning the within in proof of his altered purpose, assures you, through me, of the utter uselessness of all attempts, on your part, to regain his lost, or more properly, his restored affections. Any remuneration in money, for such was probably your object in nursing him, will be cheerfully rendered by me, his mother.

"SARAH PRYOR MELVEN." Italia neither shrieked or fainted, during her perusal of this terrible scroll; she only clenched the paper with a strong grasp and her features became fixed in frightful rigidity. Awhile she stood, like Niobe, hardening into marble, overcome by a sort of catalepsy; then, with a low, prolonged and most terrific scream, that in a moment brought the appalled Monica to her aid, she crushed the letter in her hand, cast it from her as though it had been a loathsome reptile, and stamped upon it with her feet. Ere two hours were gone by, she had disappeared for ever from Richmond.

Let not my readers suppose that the author of this deep wretchedness was possessed of a cruel or unfeeling disposition: on the contrary, Mrs. Two days had now intervened since the fond Melven, of the Wheat Fields, was famed as a di Franzoni had seen or heard from her bride-pattern of conjugal and maternal excellence groom. Miserable as she felt herself, under his no less than for piety, unrivalled skill in domesunaccountable and slighting behaviour, she tic economy, and all admirable qualities belongthought not of again invading the privacy of his ing to the character of a Virginia gentlewoman domicile: besides that, she had no reason to be- of the old school. Of a cold and composed temlieve him ill, pride rose eagerly up to forbid such perament, perfectly regulated by the dictates of a visit in their peculiar relative circumstances. a superior understanding, she had little sympaOn the third day the unhappy girl sat alone in thy for a romantic violence of love, or any exthe boudoir, Monica had just retired after burn-treme or ungovernable emotion. A woman caing incense-for the deposed princessa yet re-pable of entertaining a partiality for a man tained many luxurious foreign practices. As before the marriage vow had authorized her " she listened intently, seeming to hear the soft love, honor, and obey," (which last she revertap of her truant lover, a loud rap came thun-enced as the grand injunction,) was, in her eyes, dering at the door; Italia's heart fluttered violently-then almost ceased to beat. The little negress brought in a large letter, tied around, packet fashion, with a silken string, secured by strong seal deeply impressed on wax, and directed, with all due precision, in a fair Italia character, "For the Signora di Franzoni, portrait and miniature painter, at the Haymarket." She opened the sheet with a careless hand-her own picture, that bestowed on Theodore, fell out of

to

an absolute monster; and all foreigners, except those native of the British Isles, she looked upon as creatures on a par with the ribald-rout of Comus. From Theodore's early boyhood, she had arranged in herself a match between him and her favorite niece and to see him the husband of another, would have been a trial almost as severe to her as to the pretty Miss Aylett, whom she had taught to cherish towards him a softer feeling than that of kindred or habit.

Conceive, then, the horror, the consternation, | words-"Domum mansit, lanan fecit"-she cothe settled incredulity, with which a parent so veted as the noblest eulogium; long years and principled and minded, heard a vague rumor steadfast habits had almost converted her into a floating about the neighborhood, of Lieut. Mel- species of zoophyte-a positive fixture on the ven's attachment to an Italian (that most scan- family domain. She had visited the capitol of dalous of nations) artist, to whom, however, the her state but once with her husband, when he same current voice ascribed a superhuman was in the House of Delegates, and she a gay beauty and brilliancy of intellectual gifts. Af- bride in the bloom of early youth; now in her ter the first burst of indignant astonishment at old age and failing constitution, she prepared to an assertion so preposterous, the lady of Melven set out alone for Richmond, in order to reclaim House paid no attention to it-reassuring her- her graceless son from a possible alliance, if not self and the party most concerned in the matter, actually, with the powers of darkness-with one with the belief that Theodore, instead of dan- of those whom she piously hated as their visible gling after an outlandish minion, was safely representatives on earth. After sending off the housed with his friend Henry, at the paternal letter, before mentioned, as the forerunner of mansion of the latter. But she was soon unde- her own approach, she left the gentle Lucy to ceived by one entitled to implicit credence, mourn over her blighted prospects and bitter who assured her that the lieutenant really con- griefs; and performing her journey with all speed tinued in town, estranging himself from all his and secrecy, took the unsuspicious lover by surfriends there, and, according to credible report, prise. Her success, already related, ruined the on the eve of marriage with the accomplished health and happiness of her sole issue; but, like signora. Mrs. Melven, aghast at this intelli- the Spartan mothers dismissing their martial gence, began to debate the possibility of its offspring to the field, she doomed that son to entruth. Theodore had, so far, disappointed them counter death in preference to disgrace. Neverin a party to the Springs, projected for the be-theless, her heart bled over the wreck of hopes "nefit of her health: not a word had been tender-so high, and feelings so warm; and all that the ed in apology and explanation of this singular kindest and most attentive regard could proffer an 1 disrespectful delay; and while she reckoned in mitigation of his sickness and sorrow, was lahin on a visit to their connexions in New Kent, vished in fond endearment by herself and Miss he was still lingering about Richmond, without Aylett. This poor young creature, the shadow object or motive that she knew of. The vener- of her former self, could with difficulty be able matron would as soon have suspected her brought in contact with her faithless kinsman; son of intending to wed with a negro slave as but moved by the secret importunities of her with a wanton European, appearing in a public tender bosom, and gladly deferred to the better and servile capacity: it was best, however, to judgment of her revered protectress, who insistnip in the bud any irregular destructive pro-ed that Theodore must have been wrought on by pensity that way; for the sagacious mother had ever distrusted his hankering after foreign places and persons, and could not help sometimes condemning him as an alien, in his heart, from the common-place usages and quiet inhabitants of his Fatherland. She immediately decided on despatching a trusty messenger to Richmond, with orders to ascertain and report to her the proceedings and associates of Theodore; and Upland Joe," as he was called-the head of three hundred hands-faithful to his mistress unto death, and of veracity unshaken by the menaces of overseers and the bribes of Where, all this while, was the outraged, the others, was selected and confided in to perform desperate Italia? Given up to the darkest sugthat duty. After an absence of three weeks, the gestions of a maddened fancy, and alternately emissary returned with ample but appalling tid- meditating her refuge in a cloister or the grave. ings. He gave his lady a full and true account From the scene of her brief happiness and most of his young master's engagement and his sud-insupportable misfortune, she hastened to Norden illness of the reputed charms and graces folk, where some of her best friends resided. of the young madam from foreign parts," and There she remained a short time, but the whole her daring but decided deed of love and constan- tenor of her thoughts and habits seemed totally cy in Melven's hour of need: he added, more- transposed; her averseness from society was over, that the fact of her abode under his roof changed into a constant craving for gaiety and was known but to few, and by these few extenu- crowds, and there was nothing she so much ated as a hasty but guiltless compliance with dreaded as being left for a moment alone. All the impulse of strong affection and the manners professional practice was relinquished by her; of her own country people; and that the signora and the pencil, once never willingly out of her was much considered, among the gentry of the hand, now, if mechanically taken up, only bometropolis, as a young lady of perfect morals, died forth, with sternest power, her strong conthough "full of odd ways." Mrs. Melven saw ceptions of maniac forms and wo, and wild her only child as much endangered as a sleep-imagery engloomed by the hues of her darkened walker, about to step down a precipice. Always keeping as closely at home as the Roman matron, whose epitaph, recorded in these four

madness or by unnatural means, she soon grew, not merely reconciled to him and to the task, but miserable, except when exercising her privilege to “minister to the mind diseased," by the maternal agency that did all for the best. As his fair nurse bent in meek loveliness over his pillow, or exerted herself in every office of cousinly love, the sad patient felt the soft balm of her consolations renovate him, like the breathings of a seraphic spirit; and the anxious mother began to deem it possible that her dearest wish might yet be realized by the two.

mind. Her taste for books, too, underwent the like revolution; her favorite authors and scientific studies were all abandoned-her reading

now lay mostly in the Bible, and there the apo- | leaning on his arm, while he appeared himself cryphal story of Judith engaged her chief con- to rest for support on a fair young girl, whose cern. The achievement of the Hebrew heroine deep blue eyes and celestial placidity of counroused the patriotism dormant in the soul of the tenance might have been apostrophized as the Roman exile; she panted thus gloriously to de- personification of Byron's exquisite" Sonnet to liver her persecuted people, and slept with the Geneora." One glance was all the wild Italian holy book open beneath her head, a knife lying cast; 'twas he-the base, disloyal one-who had as a mark at the chapter, reciting the death of forsworn himself, and adding insult to injury, Holofernes. The tears shed by the unhappy barbarously trampled on her heart: here was Monica over the fearful catastrophe thus plainly his wife, and she herself was-what? The indicated, and the mild and impressive exhorta- deadly rage of madness whirled through her tions of the priest, whose penitent she was, soft-brain; one moment armed her hand with the ened, in some degree, the first energy of the weapon worn about her, so dear to the revengeprincessa's despondent fury: then came with ful purpose of her country and soul; anotherthese calmer moments her old faith in the allot- and she stood in the fierce beauty of a destroyment of her dying mother, and swayed by that ing angel before the amazed lieutenant. The phantasm, she commenced her preparations for little hand was raised-the blow given, like lighta noviciate in one of the Maryland nunneries. ning, through his side; and in the next instant, Still she revealed her purpose only to her hum- the bloody steel withdrawn and plunged into ble companion; and frequenting the haunts of her own breast. They were immediately surmirth and social meeting, there shone the ra- rounded by a crowd of people, who came rundiant" star of Arcady" to many fond admirers.ning in all directions; Miss Aylett swooned with Stung to the quick by the sarcastic insinuations affright-Mrs. Melven clung in helpless terror of that letter, ever blazing on her sight, in cha- to her son, but he had no eyes, no care, no racters of flame-if she cherished one last earth- thought, save for his maniac love, still loveliest ly wish, it was that its arrogant plebeian inditer and most adored in death. Regardless of mo might hear of her as courted by, and rejecting, ther, and cousin, and self-his wound, and the the equals of her perfidious and ungrateful de- vital stream profusely flowing from it, alike unstroyer. Of him she too heard, in the Norfolk felt-Theodore raised the insensible Italia, and circles, as being about to forget her dismissal, bore her into the nearest house, which chanced as it was thought, of him in an immediate union to be that of a common acquaintance. Here he with his rich and handsome relative. This resigned her to none, suffered no assistance to piece of news scarce occasioned a fresh pang to approach her till the surgeons, hastily summonthe forsaken girl, whose feelings seemed stunned ed, came prepared to execute their office. In into torpor or rather all her thoughts, now a state of suspense, worse than the struggles of heavenward turned, centred in the contempla-mortal agony, he awaited the result of their extion of that expiating ceremony which would aminations; the self-hurt inflicted by the fanatic array her for life in the sacrificial veil; and af-princessa was declared to be deep but not danter some explanatory correspondence with the Archbishop of Baltimore, she departed for that city, intending there to embrace,

"For aye, austerity and single life." Monica, who bitterly opposed the measure, was left behind to settle some pecuniary matters.

gerous-and her life dependant on the degree of fever which might ensue, and would be greatly accelerated by her premature removal. When all had been done that could contribute to the care and safety of the still unconscious maiden, the operators proceeded to look into the extent of Melven's injury, which had been wholly forIt was now three months since the black era, gotten by himself; that they pronounced a comwhen Italia's bond of affiance to "an ignoble parative trifle, as if her hand had failed her in heretic" was broken by his desertion. The ex- the infliction; and the unhappy lover obeyed, cellent primate, to whom she now went, in the however reluctantly, the calls of duty and prosimple majesty of her misery, greeted her with priety, by going away with his agitated compaa mixture of paternal kindness and sincere re- nions. Having attended them to their hotel, and spect. His practised eye, long accustomed to somewhat quieted their fears for him, he reperuse, as in a written volume, the histories of turned to the house where his hapless idol lay in those he communed with in their countenances, a raging delirium, which, during his absence, soon detected in the airy restlessness of Italia's had torn the bandage from her wound, and remanner, as well as in the changeful moods of sisted every effort to replace them. It became her mind, the germs of a malady all the more necessary to confine the desperate hands so awful because it invades not the life but the dangerously employed, and all night Theodore spirit. In the disordered state of her imagina- sat beside her bed listening to the mad ravings tion, he deemed the sublime being before him that rived his inmost soul. By degrees her wild unfit to profess herself; and, by way of evading vehemence died away; and towards morning, her application, appointed her to a short course exhausted nature gave no other sign of life but of previous reading, calculated to soothe and heal an almost imperceptible respiration. With the the lacerations of her noble heart. Several days bright beams of the rising sun, the thoughts of after her arrival in the Monumental City, the the princely sufferer seemed awakening to a Signora di Franzoni, (for so she still was called.) past existence in that distant land, so loved and found herself in Market street, with a party of now to her for ever lost: the melodious murmurs ladies. A gentleman passed slowly by the lively of her soft voice obtested in her own musical group-where Italia was gayest of them all-tongue the spirits of other climes and days, long with a female figure, tull of years and dignity, gathered to eternity: the childish prayer, the