The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-10-22

tie charge. soon absorbed the ioierest ofail.
Arturo sprfaie. moi daring either TO win his la
d for h,s friend or leave her IL his hated enemy
had placed no breast plate on his breast. The
horses flew like lehtung to the shock. A cloud
OF dnst fot IA instant hid the conbutants when
a. u cleared away. Albruno wa discovered hat
9Th the lane uud tumblhg from the saddle.
The supposed Frauee,eo SAT ercct-the crowd
With saeer shouts exclaimed Hnzza for Fran
cesco - But their noise was insfantaneonsly
hushed in silence when the blood WAS seen trick
ling from thr breast OF the victor aud The lance
remained midway IN his body The real I ran.
oesco riShed into the crcle 90 time 10 receive IN
his arms his ising friend. On, Arturo = he
cried, what have you done Youhsyr no breast
plate on. What dreadful mytiery Is this I"
3" ! have punished the traitor Forgive your
friend-l couduot bear TO be wanting either to
my friendship or my love. never could have
survived 10 have SEEN Maria in the arms OF ano-
tber lover, and there was but tins way to be true
10 both"
" My friend my friend - cried francesca.
Oh, fatalerrori blnd that | was TO force you TO
such an alternative Why, oh why did you not
gam your mistress lof your friend, TINT that
| friend might have thrown her into your embrace
the pledge Of what sincere friendship ~ : Would
that YOU have had shown the same confidence
in my generosi thai did M yours, when ask
| I'D OF you such a tIial ~
" feel that | am dyinG--where is Maria
where art fhon my love-my BRIDE ? Donna
Mara sprung into the cilcle, and supported the
mead Of her dying lover. Sweet II Is TO die, =
! lle said. thus ~ the arms OF love n friendship,
and the grave will he hallowed which shall be
waicrrd with such tears Now ceases that rsal
SHIP which aad lived, must have made me false
I hoe
love Who we,t'the liG. ofmy life, MOTTO mourn too
bitterly my fate but seek another Arturo in this
his friend. Reserve for him the faith which has
been fatal 10 me, but my IT have happier
issue
" Never replied Maria " shall this hand
which should have been thine be given 10 ano-
met: | low d thee living will now love thee
dead. The sepulohte snail be our place ofmeeting;
and as vanheI il in The soft twilight slrcw.
lng the freshest 1owers, do thou in spirit arise
Ia welcome mc aud renew the converse which
formed our iov while thou vert living
neighbnring convent shall shelter me and there
IN payer and deeds of bencvnlrnce VIII spcnI
10 SOLITARY remnant of my life"
The earth and ITS objects now grow dim. -
Arturo family said, and cldsping in one hand
the hand OF Maria IL in the othe that Of Fran.
ccsco he qulrily yielded his breath Maria
10 her promise soon retired In u religious house
vhere she became distinguished ion her pie
y
Francesca, lonely aud melancholy. haunted
IN unlnirigated grief the scenes where he had
bacu SO happy with his friend or sought in for
rgn countries To iose the remembrance" Of that
calamity Whlrh lac charged upon himself Otsn
Id he rrpcat that ne would Thousand tme
ratherg ynuphlt is'resst an have ben d p
ed Of his freud; At LAST he fell morjaly woun-
Ted in successfully repeIling an attack whic.
rad been made on his native city With his d.
fag lips he begged to bc Ircd TO the grave Of
Arturo aud his attendants declared with III,
credulpus superstition OF the age, that as he *
aircd, an angel rose from the tomb, and their
pirirs feN up together tlll ey were lost from
sight Thus side by side the friends,were lard,
tud often did Maria scatter over the tomb ros"s
md vloIcls I'LL heaven took pity on her SORROWS
and called her TO share will them their happy
abodes. ANlIClIIA.