Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-01

BY the Way of Death. The name OF .he ,ha,
an. heroine was Ginevra de Amiera, ana "'s'
of her lover. Antonio Rondinelli a ia.ne'
tyranny a. in the French stoly, separated uhos
whom nature seemed TO have des'ihed LOT eaS"
other: "ba,hed in tears, Ginevra reeeN. la
,u.dd;, ring from the hand OF man VINO pau
$50 IN her heart" On the breaking our
nS H. rI,gue. shortly after, she becomes h''o'es
70 81, .nnearabce,) and is buried the same oay
OH. law saws Mann, "not perhaps 'hen
;,,;no which requires that the dead shouio 1 >,
49,, ., Last ,wenty-four hours above grou"u
C;psvras lover, does not, like the Gau' o,si n
tor her on a mere speculation oil restoring '
a clumsy and improbable contriSance' ou' !"
the dead of night, Ginevra herself awaSe' ~ ''e
tomb. TO all the horrows OF her snuauoh, 'of.e'
her way out, and, as becomes duoi'u, WIZ
(albei, in her sbroud) hastens TO her sun ":eP
iup and disconsolate husband. sucCess!o"
of adventures now awaits the wiie ai'e asa'"'
which form, indeed, an admirable iouhoauon
for cnuse telsbre, although they do not appear
- h,y. been so esteemed by the French comPl-
isr who ha, given the story in turn which ex'
Guides Them entirely. On knocking at the door
ne her husband. he looks GU, from the window,
and terrified at the sight Of what ne conce'seS
70 be- the ghost of his departed wife, he ha''i'y
coniures il to depart in peace, and, before 'hefe
is time 10 undeceive him, shuts the windo",
will no, face the spirit again.
Dreadful,y shocked at this reception, poor
G,neyra has scarcely life and strength enough
lef: To reach her fathers house; but there also
her anne arance produces only terror and dis
NAV. and second Time she is dismissed with
Go a,cau in peace, blessed spirit beloved un-
Gle lived not far distant, and to his door she
crawled next Alas! he is even more trighten-
ed than either husband or father; and, instead
of the Go in peace, blessed spirit, he is only able
IN stammer out some uninlell'gible eJaculatiohs
while he SLABS the door in her face. G!neVra
could bear this denying Of house and home no
LONGER. she sunk on the ground "under the III
lie terrace of st. Bartholomew" * fell as II she
was now about to die in good earnest. A thougnt
Of her first lover, Rondinelli, now crossed her
mind. "Ah!" sighed she, he sarely would not
have thus turned me away" The idea gave,
happily, a reviving turn 10 her thoughts And
why" said she, "may not try whether ne VIII
receive me now, that every one else rejects
me?" The way was long to his house; out
gathering strength from the new hopes which
began TO animate her, she gained his threshold
s. knocked, Rondineli himself opened the door
He also thought the figure before him some
unearthly vis,ant, but nothing dlsmayed, ASKED
it calmly, "whose spirit 1t was! and "what IL
wanted?" Ginevra, tearing aside the shroud
from her face, exclaimed, with an agonlzed
voice, 81 am NO spirit, Antonio! am thai Ill
nevra YOU once loved, bu. who was buried-bu-
red aive" She could say no more, but dropped
senseess into his arms. Rondinelli, whom one
momen, had made the most astontshed, he-
lighted, and yet alarmed oil human beings, soon
brought the whole Of his family around the fair
sufferer by his cries and EXPLANATIONS. She was
Instantly put into a warm bed, and, with the
help o. proper restoratives, was, next day, able
to 1on the family circle Of hsr leser aa9 "
yra 10 return to her husband from whom the
grave had separated her, and TO whom she had
never been attached? or was she 10 find a new
one in the man she had first and always loved,
and who had received her into his arms when
all the rest of the world had, as it were cast her
out? Love and gratitude decided the question;
and, with the consen, and privity Of Rondinel-
lis nearest relations, the two lovers were made
one. Unlike the hero and heroine Of the French
tale, they hed not, however, to foreign land 10
conceal their loves; for, on the first Sunday af-
ter their nuptials, they appeared publicly to-
gether a, the Cathedral Of Florence. The trends
of Ginevra Instantly recognising her, were con-
founded with establishment, they crowded a
round her, and, as curiosity and affection die
ta:ed, showered oil her their questions and con-
gratulations. She explained to them the vari-
Gus circumstances attending her resuscitation;
reminded them how one after another they had
turned her IRON their doors; and declared that
when thus rejected and disowned by her hus.
band and kindred, she had found protector
(,aking Rondinelli by the hand in one 10 whom
all her love and all her duty were now transfer
red Her first husband, however, having no
mind to be thus discarded, insisted strongly on
his previous right, right which, as he alIeg-
ed, nothing but death in earnest could dissolve
An appeal was made to the bishop, with whom
it lay TO decide in such matters. The case was
solemnly argued before him; and, to conclude
the striking differences between the Italian sto.
ry and the French version of it,--neither did
the lovers evade the decision, nor had they any
occasion TO evade it The bishop, Ooh! most ex
cslIent bishcpD decided that, under all circum-
stances, the first husband had forfeited all right
not only to the person Of Ginevra, but 10 the
dowry he had received with her, which he was
ordered to pay over to Rondinelli
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