Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-11-18

confscated or dissipnted and his father
was notoriously maurdis sujet. All these
reports and representations appeared to the
impassioned Geneyicve mere barbarous
ca!umnics, invented TO injure her love and
regarding herself as the primal cause Of
these ISLANDERS, they rather added TO the
strength of her attachment. A reluctant
consent was at last wrung from her aunt,
and GeneyIcve was united to her lover
The chateau of the Baron was situated
in one ofthe widest districts of the wild
and desoIate coast of Brctagne. The
people who inhabited the country round,
were icrocious, half civilized race, and III
general desperate smugglers and pirates.
They had been driven to this mode OF life
by dreadful famine and the expressions
Of the provincial taxgalhercrs, had pursued
it partly from choice, partly from neccssi-
ty. They had carried on for nearly half a
century IL constant and systematic warfare
against tho legal authorities Of the pro-
vince, III which they were generally victo-
rious. No revenue officer or eLempt dare
set his foot within certain district and
when the tempestuous season or any other
accident prevented them from following
their lawlcss trade on the sea, they dis
pcrscd themselves through the country in
regularly organized bands, and committed
the most formidable depredations, extend
ing their Outrages even as far as ST Pol.
Such was their desperate courage, the in
credible cclerity of their movements, and
the skill Of their leaders, that though few
stragglers had been occasionally shot, all
attempts to take any Of them alive, or to
penetrate into their secret Businesses, pro-
we'd una,aling
The Baron had come to Paris for the
purpose of representing the disturbed state
OF his district to the government, and pro-
curing an order from the minister Of the
interior to embody his own tcnantry and
dependents into u sort Of militia for the de-
fence Of his property, and for the purpose
OF bringing these maraudcrs to justice, if
possible
He was at first refused, but after few
months delay, money, and the interest OF
Gcneyleve's family prevailed /; the order
was granted, and he prepared to return to
his chateau. The aunt and all her friends
demonstrated against the idea ST exposing
his young wife to such revolving scenes,
! and insisted that she should be left behind
at Paris to which he agreed with seem
ing readiness, only referring the decision
to Gcncyievo's own election. She did not
hesitate one moment she adorcd her hus-
band, and tho thought of being separated
from lim III this early stage Of their union,
was worse than any apprchcnded danger
she declared her resolution TO accompany
h!n. At length the matter was thus com
promised: they consented that Genevieve
aaOuid spend four months OF every year in
Brc,agnc, and the other eight at Paris, or
at her uncle's chateau in Auvcrgne in
fact, so little was known then in the capl-
tai, Of what was passing in the dis,an, pro-
sinces, that GencYievc only, being pre-
pared by her husband, could form some
idea OF what she was about to encounter.
On their arrival, the peasantry were i'm
! inediate!y armed, and the chateau convert
Cd into KIND OF garrison, regularly lorti-
hcd. A continual panic seemed to prevail
throughout the whole household, and she
heard Of nothing from morning till night,
but the desperate deeds Of the maraudcrs,
| and the exploits of their captain, to whom
they attributed more marvellous atrocities
than were ever related Of Barbone, or
Blue Beard himself Gcnevieve was at
AL ~ III SoiStoht tclioI huuiIS, HOWcNcT,
that week after week passed, and the dam
ger, though continually talked Of never APP
pcarcd, she was rather excited and dcsen-
aVyec, by the continual recurrence Of these
alarms. She would nave been perfectly
happy in her husbands increasing and de-
voted tenderness, but for his frequent alb
scnccs in pursuit of the smugglers either
on sea or on shore, and the dangers to
which she fanciod him exposed but even
| those absences and these dangers cndear-
cd him to her, and kept alive all the ro-
mantle iervor Of her attachment lie was
not only the lord Of her affections, bu, the
hero of her Imagination. The time allot-
ted for her stay insensb!y passed away
the four months were, under different pre-
tences prolonged to six, and then her con-
| finement drawing near, it was Judged safest
to defer her journey to Paris till after her
recovery.
Gcnevicve, in due time, became the mo-
ther Of a son : an event which filed her
| heart with thousand delicious emotions
of gratitude, pride, and delight 1t SEEM
ed to have q very different and most mex
plicable effect on her husband the Baron's
behavior. lie became gloomy, anxious,
distracted and his absences, on various
preteXts, more frequent than ever but