The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-18 00:00:00

The Welcome fiome---. peceiltrltiom—Tbe Settle Royal

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Possibly having been down to the rams and dropped •
lot of money, or otherwise bad • week of it. you may
forget that you left us litre- Penny and me) upon the
threshold of our home, at the termination of our honey-
moon, with the girls drawn up in a row to receive us, and
the twins all over the place. going on tumultuously. Mn,
Penny does not appear to be too delighted to find the
girls in a row, and is even less pleaded by the twins'
lieuacatnaao.
I hastily explain that the twins are of no consequence,
on y being nephews, and not In any way attached to the
establidbment ; being rather, II anything, a portion of •
welcoming ceremony that might, under other circum-
stanced, have had • backing-up of arches and flags with
appropriate devices, and firearms at intervals.
Hue sue, "They are very like you."'
As • niatterni-fact. they do not resemble me in the
law., and nothing could well annoy in. Dare than their
presence; but I hardly so. wh. I should be hunted into a
corner, ad it were, upon the stabled.
A. we approach We door the girls cluster round sad
clutch at Mrs. Penny, who ii menu to me, bobs her heed
a itizaucally and pares, so to speak, usiscathei
h the ordeal, whilst the girls (in a row) rub their
node. where Mrs. Penny's hat and feather have caught
them right and left, Rua blink and smile tearfully.
Meanwhile, bo•ever, the twins have been stretching
their opportunity, and clove with Mrs. Penny, at whom
from n pelisbed bell-chair (they don't mind the polish a
bit) they take dying leaps and him with fury.
I my slerrill .
, Boys. behave yourselves r
Instead of doing ex they charge me impethously--so
that half my time I am uncertain whether I ani *tending
on my head or my heels—anal yell in choru; " bray vo,
?funky r (11. la a r
flood boys." I say, feeling as though I should like to
smack their heads for them, but at the same time con-
scious of their molesting well and not quite knowing
how to seeress themselves. "Keep quiet for • moment.
and
Here one twin butts at me with has bead in • lower
waistcoat button, whilst the other charges in. from the
mar- "Good hors, that'll do r
'That's new, auntie. ain't It r they about in chorus
(they're always in chorus, it seems to me. " ua • kias,
new auntie."
_

"Oa gamy r responds new auntie.
"Cio away. Leave go of your aunt," I thunder. On
which they best • retreat of a yard or two and cheer.
The girls, still rubbing their noses, form • tearful little
procession to the parlour, and Bathsheba, the eldest, says,
" Welcome bow, r
The little perlour ia brand new and awfully prim, and
the their. "t round the wells eve it much of the appear-
ance of Si.. fint-claes ladies waiting-room at • small
railway station. The crowd lends itself to this fancy, and
our carpet bags heighten We effect.
The room indeed. is very crowded by the three girls,
Yrs. Penny, myself, and the servant, witbnut counting
Us. twins, who jostle each other fiercely in the doorway.
If somebody would only get Oct of the way. I feel se
thought should like to take • cb•ir.
•

We have had tea and ham and eggs. The girls decided
that this would he preferable to dinner after our journey.
I dent know why it el:mold be, but we have it, and say
it is eery nice. Weenwhila, the twins have a game in the
room overhead, which threatens every now and then to
brtng down the chandelier.
I break it mildly to the girls that we could have done
without the twins upon an occasion like this, and asks
when they are going. At this Cassandra's feelings (it wee
her notion it appears) are hurt, and she says," Brother,
if I had only known. I would not have suggested it. But
it is natural you should be changed now.*
I say, "I dons know about changed, but they make
such a confounded row."

-.7.'"eawaTh-Idn.-say—e74-IFo.O would not have thought so once,
Brother.
. . . . .

I don't argue the point, but go to look at my Bradshaw
for the next train that will take the twins beck to their
school, which is about twenty miles off.
In the passage I find them waiting for me, and they
shout in chorus—
Noah,, come and look at the back gardina"
I am on the point of telling tbeni I haven't time, when
they suddenly seize on me, one on each side, and
absolutely run me out, and down one gravel.waLr and
half up another before I can shake tuyaell free. Then
asking them how they dare. I turn upon my heel and re-
trace my imps to the house to the house. Turning
suddenly at the door, however, I discover that they have
been foilowiag in Indian file, as it is called, taking what
I. commonly known as a "Snook" behind me. On which
I shake my fist at them, and they take roll! "snooks"
and dance can-can stops of a derisive character.
I Feeling that such conduct calls for immediate action on
my part, I make a dash, and vainly endeavour to grapple
with en ninnies twin, who escapee across the centre
Bower bed and dodges me round • laurel, whilst the other
twin harasses me from the rear, and calls "Yak
In She midst of this, casting my eyes towards our back.
parlour window, I observe Kra. Penny looking on with
• placid smile, and I at the unie moment blame cow.
scions of the neighbours' heads at the windows of the
adits. ining house
. nsisbbours also appear to be much amused.
I am glad they are.
I am also sled lira. Penny is amused.
But I don t intend to go on making an exhibition of
myself to please tnybody,
• • •

I have given up this unseemly struggle, and am looking
for the train in tits Bradshaw.
Thar* is not soother to-night.

L ROMAN TRAGEDY.

The Rome correspondent of the Mass, writing MAY 23.
says a remarkable trial for murder. which de drawn
crowds to tin Court of Amiss. an I completely absorbed
the attentioe of the Roman public daring the last three
due, was brought to an abrupt and most dramatic ter-
mination yesterday. The Jury had retired to consider
their verdict; the prisoner had bean taken bock to his
cell: the crowd within the court, afraid of losing their
were waiting patiently to hear the mit; half an
ttar' had pseud, when the atteution of every one was
suddenly aroused by the sound of an intense commotion ;
the judph the public prosecutor, and the advocate for
the d.b.as were summoned in haste, nod almoet bet on
the eeela •• What is it; whit is the matter r the
new, ihilised through the court Chet the prisoner waa in
• eats of raving madames. In the year 1803 Giuseppe
V•rani, a tailor following his business in the Via Roes,
close to the Pius. a Colons; married • young woman
named Mertens& lomil In 1803 his went to Florence
on the occasion of Prince—now Ring —Humbert's m
and on his return, Pontifical police, suspecting that she
true motive of his journey had reference to political
matters for the man we down In their books sea Liberal,
arrested him, sad kept him to prison for two months.
After his liberation he beard thinp which led him to
believe that during this Interval his wife had been unfelt's.
, fat Taxing her with the charge, she confessed, pleading
' her youth, inexperieoce, and unprotected position, and he
forgave her, subject however, to her wearing mourning
for three years, to her never leaving the hum unaccom-
seeded, and to her following prescribed routes when she
went out. Shortly afterwards • child was born which
Vernal had no reason to doubt IVY his own, and this event
brought about a complete reconciliation hem's° the
parent& Years passed, and, with the exception that the
child, who was devotedly loved by her father, died, nothing
further occurred to interfere with Vareas
until the month of September last In August lastbairrent
his .if. with some acquaintances to Reautati, Dear
Aocona, and with the party was an intimate friend of hi.,
a joiner, named Far• Flocentinl. Shortly after her
return Varani had ocesdon to reprove • young
_girt they
kept as • servant for ens* levity of conduct dm bad been
pithy of ' I nave don. no harm," she replied, and then
with a significant expreesioo sdded, "and if I have lam
unmarried; I have no husband like some other pireou
These words armed the pardon his wife's good behaviour
had kept dormant since he pardoned her tan years ago.
He began in a covert mune to make inquiries among
his friends aa to Ms wife's behaviour. Their answen
were such as to increses Lis euspeclons and lead him to
believe that while at Recauti the had been too intimate
with Enrico Florentini To put his friend to the test he
Invited him to a kind of supper at • trattoria, and, having
taken two others into his confidence, acit the gees...wee
turned on the subject of husbands betrayed and wives
winced by bosom friends, but no change came over the
countenance of Florentioi and he betrayed no emotion
beyond what was shown in expressing hie opinion of the
dire punishment traitors of that kind merited—of what
he himself would do,. any such case. Vaned was almost
reusurred by Florentini s frank ?pen look and lug!l
words, when the next day Sara Nulled, the servant girt,
dropped other insinuations, and Vll/111all suspicions
returned with redoubled force. This girl, apparently 18
years old, we only 11, and while in court gave evidence
of such precocity that the president warned her parente
to guard her closely. I most mention here that some
tines ago Vernal had opened • small shop in the new
quarter for his wife to keep while be attended to his
business as a tailor in the Via 800. He got the' two
friends to whom he had wedded hi. doubts to aid him in
watching her, but they were unable to detect anything,
and at last be hit upon the common expedient of a
pretended day's journey into the country, of which also
he took care that Flegentini Guild know. Having bid
his wife good-bye, token his departure, and ascertained
that the had gone to her shop, he returned secretly to
the house and hid himself under the bed. The wife ,
returned with the girl Sara to her dinner, and at one
moment he thought he was as the point of realising Mo
stupidest, for the girl went out Leering the wife alone,
but she had only been sent to fetch something. and lit"
a short time they both set out again for the shop in
the Via Principe Umberto. As evening approached he
took an opportunity of P.USIM unseen from his home
to as toroth on the opposite aide of the way, from one
of the windows above which he was able to keep watch
on his own door. HI. wife and the servant girl came
back alone together : everything was jut se usual; no
one entered the house after them ; at the customary hour
the lights were extinguished; and alter' still sitting at
watching until midnight be went to the [exude of the
Bierione to sleep- "Wee it possible that be had been
tormented by a shadow: that the supthione he had been
lad to entertain were groundlessr were the questions, big
now pot to himself. In the morning thew thoughts had
almost become convictions, and after repeating them to
his friends he saw darted the earlier hours. he ...the the
railway wawa, that be might come away thimes on the
arrival of the train by which he was supposed to return.
In the Via Queer° lantana he met the errant girl Sara
Nagriad. "Inters was her Widnes r She Aid not
!maw; bar al/IMO bad ow out may early, sertzlhee
lime pima whit head le the W1N61,7 of 166$

Verso. On b.srtnt all
Varand's doistith ~lt
during*. raorning, gars back with r7;r•—.-7- form
• osita Os pre forger and the told hi= um& his
wife and Fionatint bad bola a king date toineher the
day bifida agegared by the ides that while ha was
watching at boos and bsoorniag convinced of his wife's
innacrosso be saw Mr quietly go in and out and finally
retro for in. sight, the hact taken the opportunities of
easing her lover thawhore during the intervals. he took
an instant Traria% to niece the matter one way or
another beyond a dour Irving her brother, who had
accompanied hint from the station and who bore witness
I to the happier thoughts he had expired before meet-
ing Sera Horrid, be jumped into a cab and weld direct
to the Via Principe Ontario. The cabman testified to
obtarving the arited sista of his far At in. shop be
found his wife, and putting ha into the cab told her to
go home and wait for him them He then took another
cab, and driving to tiorentint's workshop, &red him
to coma with him at once to his boor for he had some-
thing he wanted him to do. At first Fiorenuni
refused. He could not conveniently have his work at
that moment, but Varani insisted and h. consented. As
to the., particulars, the only tritors was Yuri himself.
He went to the house that, called to his wife to come down
with a candle to light him into the colter and made a sign
to Fiorentini to enter. At tint his wife, &Mined,
pomibly, at his manner at the shop. refused. She did not
know wbst she wee to come down Are y afraid r
he asked, and she came. Ho made for.
ler you
dasosnd first, told
Martini to follow, and then went down himself. As
boon as they. were in the cellar he turned upon them and
exclaimed. "It It is time to finish with all this; tell me the
truth and I will forgive you. 'lt is not my fault." cried
Florentini . The wife fell upon her Mese and entreated
pardon for the rk• of their dead child." And than," said
41116 i. "at the nom of that angel I had loved di dearly
I loot di command of myself: the light fell over my eye..
I drew a knUo I had in my trousers and fall upon them. I
know nothing else except that I went united", got into
the cab that eve welting, drove to the Quirstura, and gar
mctir „IF,- so / have said, war found alive and recovered
from tho four wounda Yuri had inflicted upon her. On
the body of the lover a letter of hers of the mod com-
promising character was found. When this wait read
Court and when witnesses testified to incidents which had
occurred at Record which left little doubt of a criminal
intimacy having rated there between Venni'. wife and
Firentir tbs agitation of dr prisoner was starve
When his wife was called to give her evidence, he entreated
the President to lot him be taken away, not to oblige him
to we and bear her, and the final Noah I have told loo-
n took eight Cretinous to hold him, until, fastened in •
straight waistcoat, be was taken to the horde!. When
the juoi came out to give their verdict, which in Italy is
decided by the majority, seven out of ths twelve were
agreed on tbe oration of premeditation. In cases where
the majority is no more than wren, Article HO of the
Penal Code provides that that the President may, in
accord with the other judged order a now trial ; and this
coarse tho President, taking into oonsidaration the condi-
tion of the prisoner, decided to follow.