Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-11-04

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oblivious wave, an asylum safe and secure from the
horrors OF a guilty conscience but he dared not
meet the wrath of an insultel and angry God. In
| the paroxysm of distress, he exclaimed--and the
very walls of the chasm seemed to tremble, as bis
hideous and frantic ojacuaons echoed through
the dismal space" Foul iends, devils and damned
| spirits, pour upon my devoted head, your malice
and your wrath---for no longer do fear your Prov
| ess.-i defy you--come on, come on-aDd tear from
| this bosom, false, guilty heart. live but for
torture and would HE me hence, TO that hell
that is beyond me, TO escape that which is within
me-" Raying and distracted, he lhen fell liieless
upon the deck Of the goniola, and casping to his
bosom the clay-cold form of Maria, knew not what
passed, till reviving nature awoe him from his stu
por, and warned him, that that not The time,
nor the hour, to indulge the distractions of
morse.stricken conscience Recovering himself, as
far nature would allow, he resumed the oar, and
sped his way towards the entrance of the chasm,
| and a. the mouth oft, was welcomed by the faith
ful Doratha, who, unconscious of what his barque
contained, or whitherhe had strayed, had beaken
herselfto the beach, to greet the return Of the
nerabe Bishop. The emaciated aspect of Berkeley,
did not long, however, deceive her, and the settled
loom which pervaded his hitherto serene counte-
nance, told her that something unusual had over
taken him. Anxious to pay the sacred duties Of
friend and servant to her venerable lord and
master, she hastily sprung on board the barque -
| but what was her astonishmen, when she beheld,
| beneath its deck, the cay-cold form of the once
lovely Maria! "Eternal God !" she exclaimed,
| "what form is this? Who father Bishop, was this
once living body Art thou murderer ;"-and
she gazei wildly and dstractedly on the moionless
Bishop who, appalled, by accusation which filed
his soul with terror was unable to respond to the
rude artculations Of the astounded and horror
stricken Doratha.
! The waters Of the ocean were upon the ebb, and
as they rcceded, carried towards its tumutuous bill
lows, the frail barque; whilst its living inmates
as unconscious of their situation, and whittier
! they wandered, as the ifclcss Maria. The Bishop
spoke not, aud Doratha stood as firm and erect as
statue, whilst the barque conveyed to the vici
cage of the turbulent waves that, Mt each moment,
threatened their determination.
Already had the sun began to recede behind the
| summits of the western hills, and the wanderers
upon the ocean, in frail shallop, exposed to
| The dangers Of he seas, aad the nclemency of the
| season; and, at each moment, on the margin OF a
gulf that yawped to receive them within its dread
abyss. The moon had begun to shed its Aickerrg
| Light the ocean wave, and rejecting on the wide
expanse of the Atlantic and tingng the tops of the
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| even moment like that, called from the Bishop
a feeling which he had not known before, for 1t
awoke him from his apathy and displayed to him
the danger with which he was surrounded. SEN
sby alive to his situation, he seized the oar and
calling upon Doratha to set the lattene SAIL glided
slowly over the waters, and towards the shore. To
his appeals Doraha replied not,--on the bottom Of
the shalop she reclincd, enfodng in her embraces
the form of Maria, and when the Bishop would
have forced her from the cold embraces the un-
fortunate dead he found, TO his CONSERVATION, that
her spirit had 1ed, and winged its way for better
worlds and happier spheres.
II was near midnight when the Bishop reached
the strand, adjacent 10 his dwelling; and on ap-
preaching it, was welcomed by several of the neigh
boring cottagers who, in the midst of their inqie-
tude and alarm fol his safety, had repaired to the
| beach fearing thai calamity had overtaken
| him whilst on the wave. As they offered TO him
the hand of friendship he received it with kindness
! spoke not--but pointing TO the dead inhabitants
of the shailop, motoned them TO convey them to
the cottage. The cotagers-at first alarmed, lest,
by touching the dead, they might incur the wrath
of their wondering spirits, and then revolving at the
horrd suggestions OF their imaginaticns, that the
| Bishop had been guilty Of a foul and wanton mur-
der-for moment refused TO obey the will OF their
spiritual and temporal master
At length, however, they recovered sufficient
courage and bore the two liieless forms to the
mansion of Bishop BERKLEY, where they were
prepared for the tenements Of the grave, whilst 'hc
cottagers, indulging in their suspicious fixed upon
the Bishop the unnatural and vile crime Of muir
| der.
In little grove, ajjacen, 10 The dwelling of the
Minute Philosopher, were Inferred the ill-lsted
| maids lone common sepulchrc received them, and
| the yew tree and the willow waved gracefully, yet
mournfully, over the unpretendiug mound that
covered the last remains of who was born must
| misfortune;--whose birth was associated WIN
| crime and who. by an unnatural mother, hnd been
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