Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-07-04

IN good earnest. "A thoueht OF het i's'
lover, RondincIli, now crossed her mind.
"Ah" sighed she, che surely would not
have thus turned me away - The idea
gave happily a reviying turn to her
thoughts "And Why" SAID she, "may
not try whether he will receive me,
now that every one else rejects me -
The way was not long to his house, and
gathering strength from the new hopes
which began to animate her, she gained
his threshold, and knocked. kondlnelli
himself opened the door. lie also thought
the figure before him some unear'hiy
visliant, but nothing dismayed, asked II
calmly "whOse spirit il was" and "whai
it wanted" Ginevra tearing away The
shroud from her face exclaimed with an
agon,zing voice, 81 am no spirit, Anto-
MO! | am that Ginevra YOU once l'vtd,
but was buried-burird aiive!" ~he
could say no more, but dropped sense
less into his arms.
Rondinelli, whom one moment had
VI de the most astonished d"I- n'ed, and
yet alarmed Of human inga, soon
brought the whole OF Is ann around
the fair sufferer by MS c,les and eXcla-
nations. She was instantly pat INT" bed,
and, white he p OF proper fesiora''ves,
was, next day, able to JON the ami.
circle OF her lover, and in iew days
more was a. healthy and blooming as
ever What was now TO be done' was
Ginevra TO return to her husband rom
whom the grave had separated be-, and
to whom she had never been attac d!
or was she 10 find 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 word mad n II ere.
cashier out? Love and gratitude ci.
ded the question: and with the conaei.
and prlvits f RondinelH's neares' r"la-
tions the two lovers were mad" one
Unlike the hero and hcrolre OF the
French tale, they fled not, however, to
a foreign and, to conceal their loves,
for, on the first unda, after their nup-
tials, they appeared pubIcaly together
at the Cathedral OF Florence The
friends OF Ginevra instantly recognizing
her, were conioundrd with astoni.nmcnt;
they crowded around her, and, as curl
osity and affection dictated, showered on
her their questions and congratulations.
She explained to them the v"rious Cir
cumstances attending resusc',alion; re-
minded them how one after another
they had turned ne, from their doors.
aud dccla cd that when thus reJocfd
aud disowned by he husband and KIN
dred, she had found protector Jtaklng
RodneIli bv tn" hand) in one to "hom
all her love and all her duty were nov
Her first husband, howev
er, having no mind to be thus discarded
insisted strongly on his prev ous right,
q ight which, as he alleged, nothing
but death in earnest could dissolve Al
appeal was made to The bishop with whom
i, lay to decide in such matters The
case was solemnly argued b .ore him;
and, to conclude the striking difference
between the Italian story aud the French
version of it-nenher did The lovers
evade the decision, nor had they an
occasion to evade it. The bishop dec,-
ded that, under all circumstances, the
frs. husband had forfeited oil right not
only to the person of Ginevra, but to the
dowry he had received with her, which
he was ordered to pay over to ROndinei-