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London, England, 1820-03-06 00:00:00

s that wits humid to protect her. his agony—his eitto-
tious were in.upportable. The coolest
between love and '
Moaner grew daily and even Monty more dubious ; and
had it nut been for ;het strong ponciple of honour and
feeling a hie,' Wine has einokfted on the heart of ass
Esiglishotiati, he would have sullied his spotless character,
and his amiable companion windilvhave been iir.done for
ever. It is in the power of those only who have been in
lac/ tiring sit net iota, to Laois the danger and the
difficulty of a counsel bet wren passion and prudence.
On the evening of the fourth day they artist d at a
little cottage situated in the Most roinanlie pat I of the
Apennines. C •ealeil by a dee o glen on one side, and
emmisomed in the dank shallot the forest pines on the
other, it seemed totally sect ' from the amid. A
mountain streamlet that sleety own toe nice( d preci-
pices, mined gristly on its e, as it sound round
the hamlet, so that nature seenie o have bleoded, in this
ber fat/ulnae retreat, the extremes of sublimity and soft
nes.. The simple lout kind-heart 'imams received them
with transport, and hastened to spare every thing that
;
was requisite for their c.infurt.
Laura, however, was too 1111 l eh- Attested a ilk her join'
ney, to take pleasou• in the good natured offici 111 l sness of
the family, and levies...it to be shoals into a room a he re
she might enjoy a temporary repose. Her wish ass cheer-
fully, Colliplitd .lithotittl Sir &Mace, taking advantage of
the tvhsettee of Isis lovely companient, hasteued into the
shed, %shirk had been intruded to cots% e) the id, aof
stables, to sae that Isis jaded horses were accommodated
as their w eat iness required Moving executed his intro-
lions, hr ermined twine cottage. awl entered an adjoin-
ing apartment, in the ear-Minx :.st stseeti.ig with his hied
peanuts, wino he sorposottllffe by This lime arranged every
thing for their repast. On opening the door, be started on
discovering his mistake, and sera Atilt more astonished at
Isea.inx Ini Haase faintly and tremulously pronounced. The
voice evidestly came from a lit le ref ew at the corner of the
apartment 4 lie hisiened tinned* to investigate the cir-
cumstatices, and beheld a sight that bee ildered and de-
lighted hint. It was his adored Laura, the tole. esting
Companion or Ins travels. She silts irposaig quietly on a
small truck sir bed, and /seemed greatly agitated a bile she
once again uttered in a Ire lons voice, this name of I. tis-
tree. Her louse hair, which had escaped front the fillets
which bonud it, lay in clustering ringlets over her face,
and a warm duals glowed on her comitenauce, arising no
doubt from the fatigue attendant on the journey, that
greatly increased the native beatify of her prison. The
mantle that 114.1 hitherto concealed her neck was palf-
tinily !Unveiled from the clasp, and displayed a breast of
the purest alabaster, dangerous, doubly dangerous, to the
marinated eyes of the beholder. Sir Eustace hung over
his sleeping clpirge in an agony of Passion—every feeling
—every emollOn tls had been [Othello restiained by the
rouge, 0 xistue.ref•an Englishman, now burst rot ill with
irresistible *faience. He pin ed for several tau-
trients—be bent over the Issue of his compailiou, and
imprinted • warm kiss WI her cheek. It was a kiss that
the most scinpulusis need not have condenitted , it miss
the last— the parting acknowledgment that itrssitla made
to virtue, ere site yielded entire subittission to her vill•
sir Eustace 'entwined not longer in the tooth—lie a iped
away the tears that were starting limn his ey ire, and co-
stria; his face with Isis lauds, rushed hastily lions the
apartment.
A few d4%4 of continued travel brought them near Susa,
the road to s. hitch Hound timid the base of au enormous
precipice. a blew sides were covered by an emit 1111 l ms gnus- '
City of lilitirmun trees. And here Sir Loonier had another
opporinnity of discovering the mental attract so , of his lair
cumulus l i 111 l . Vt benever they retiched • spot cotristruitus
for sus suldsmity, she would point out its peeutiar beauties,
and is.soc tale it atilt similar scs-ait s, of a beets she had tor-
wetly been nit enthusiastic spectator. purply Trull, II its
the exquisite poetry of nor canary. and possessing that
alarm simplicity for a bleb the Itulnin twins arc so re-
markable, she put the sanguine dispositon of the Suing
LoWishitian to the severest trials that his Unifier was
capable of mon li ll issg. %u hen she talked of her htt!band,
mud rialliteratt II his goad qualities, she vs rutted to he a been.
of a superior order; rind See lasstrce thought that lie had
never felt eloquence but geounie, or beauty so irresi-t .ble.—
Hut his cuoistou.isho, a Inch bias never very sir a. soon
began to sink under such repeated conflicts. Atoms• tor the
nice-sits of mice:sluts Ins untialtpi pasquii, the liante, which
by expansion intrlit have tweet dime istshed, aus I rodesed
snore impetuous by Ism.: febtlaillt. A chilling ci sue
errors,' os t Ise natural buoyancy of his ilislinsition t Ills cowl-
Scum:ace twcame wan sisal elllitelitiCd i and a cola le,ses yr
took place of his mice sprorktio. .ivacity. Laura his self
could not avoid remarking tlie nucleus holy al erau 1111 l that
had hero so lately evinced in sus .-!cares let. She ,sitoked
anxiously in Isis face; she I hasped his liaild iii ht•is, and
requested to know how bite Wight Caul rilea4Cll) hi, illaptisllieltal
" I oin indeed intact,. my Laura," I rinsed Sir Las-lair,
It MI a trip sogli," and et. It )oar kutillie.s as ill tie of little
aball ; hut oli is los kid in she cloth aces of .. fond husband,
and lertil,ll.4l its iall the annuals. 111 Mat It I). If ),.0 should
ever condescend to Call to 1111 l id she lotto, tn. . a ~ tool. sir
hate 'tabbed 110 heitiolly t.ts,o liter , then, Mart d"—.i.is glee,
prevented him florin continuos ; Laura beheld his emotion-