The Litchfield County post., 1826-11-21

ana. who ON heing candidly informed OF
her nrior attachment, had displayed gen.
erositv and magnanimity In his expressions
eowaris the successful candidate, which
had forever raised him in Clara's es-
TEEN. -
To him. then, she communicated her
v;Id scheme for re-establishing her lovers
fair fame. " Franz" said she, 7" have
not forgotten your generous cOnduc1 W
wards one whom you might have V'ems
with jealousy and hatred and nave c InuJ
to give you an opportunity OF DONG . uoo~
which will make fairer maioS tndn Po cI
Clara Meyer dispute the possession "
your hand. She had not miScaicuia'eu
The strength of the young mans character );
he entered eagerly into her views, with
mixture of the generous feeling which de-
lights in doing justice to an enemy, and OF
the disinterested love which seeks only the
happiness fits object.
They fixed on the following evening for
their departure from the village, that they
might elude observation, and avail them-
selves ola bright moon to gain thesvlcInIty
Of the mountains by sunrise. Clara burst
not depart without the benediction OF her
father, who, thinking he saw in the heroic
idea, the suggestion Of heaven, torbore to
oppose it, and undertook to assure the caP7
tive Of his daughters unabated constancy
and attachment, without exciting deiuslve
hopes, or still more cruel fears, by acquain-
ting him with the reason of an absence,
accounted for to hesrest of the village, by
her natural desire to quit for short while
a scene so distressing.
1t was late in the season, and the first
SHOWS had fallen in the higher ranges OF
the mountain but the adventurous pill
grims trusted they might yet easily trace
the path over the Bernina, with which Franz
was not unacquainted, and the precise spot
ofwhicb. where the murder was committed,
he thought he should recognise from Cas-
ra's animated description. Furnished with
the usual requisites of mountain travellers,
70 which the attentive Franz insisted on
adding large shepherds cloak, to protect
= Clara from the piercing cold, when fatigue
should obIige her to take some rest, they
set out, piously invoking on their enter
prise the blessing of Heaven, which, If
purity of motive could secure it, they might
humbly hope to enjoy.
The harvest moon sllone brighton their
course, and invigorateds BY the frosty air,
thew proceeded unconscious Of fatigue for
many hours, passing the Chascts before
mentioned, while their simple inhabitants
were vet buried in repose. They reach
ed. lust as the first rays Of morning tinged
the horizon, that elevated point or Cot o. |
yer which the path wound, and, pausing
moment to take BREATH after the ascent,
m %l.ax, arm, TO Anime
sccnery,in speeches. admiration OF the
noble prospect above and beneath them. -
TIE lofty peaks Of the primesal Alps a.
round them had just caught the first roseate
hue Of morning, the spot on which they
stood was partially Illuminated, while the
path they had been pursuing. with many a
pastoral vale besides, lay yet in grey twi-
light. Clara's heart, with the fond super
stition of her country, caught the omen, and
she exclaimed to her companion, Already
light and truth beam upon us, and soon
shall they dawn upon our benighted coun-
trymen. See! our silver lake, our village
spire, aye, the very stern tower OF my A
lows dungeon, kindle in the blaze! Cour-
age, Franz! My heart tells me we shall be
successful" Is
u6 tEdV0IlStS IiuSCiO0 ONt q TOW uAO~
ments longer to enjoy the sublime specta-
Gle Of the suns rays on a superb glacier
which lay at short distance from, their
path, whose fantastic spires of crystal Of
every hue, from the deepest cerulean blue
to the most vivid green, Knocked the
sints of the sapphire aud the emerald. Al
any other moment it would have had charms
to lure them from their course, but its dag
sling and unsullied surface only reminded
Clara Of the stain upon her Alloys hitherto
sno,less fanae, 1t furnished her, however,
with another cheerful presage., Like other
glaciers with which she and her mountain
guide were familiar, it had its Moraiae, or
border of huge stones, thrown up from
!. the bosom Of it's deep assures by the in
dignant .heavings Of the closing mass Office.
Franz said She, 1t is an oldsaying,that
the glaciers will suffer no polluted inmate
in their clear bosom; and it is as old and
true. tliatHe who made them will not al.
Iowthe load Of guilt to res. long upon tn,
flirfame of the innocentl'
Proceeding rapidly their way the.
soon deserted at distance below then
theYude cross which the piety ofthe herds
mon Of Ch0lets had marked the seen
Of blood, and their first emotion on behold
ing it, was to fall on their knees and put VI