Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
FROM GoD's BOOK OF NATURE.
yElTRILOQUISM.

Lewis Brhbnt, valet de chambre of
Francis | Of rance, was a skllful VEN
triloquist; am fell desperately in love
with a young, eautiful and very wealthy
helress, whose ather forbade his address
es in consequere of the disparity of his
condition. Ahr the decease of her IA
Their, Brabant usubdued by the first re-
pulse, detetmind to make another push
and to call to Is aid, if necessary, the
art of yentriloqlsm.
He According waited on the mother.
and once more abmitted his proposals.
But faithful to Nh views of her deceased
husband, she 9n him a direct refusal.
While IN the AZ y so doing, low, hoI-
low, sepulchral koEe was heard by her
self, and by all resent, and which
instantly Recognized as the voice of the
deceased, comntiding the widow to give
her daughters Ind to Lewis Brabant,
whom the spiritEfirmed he now knew to
be worthy and ian excellent man, and
much wealthier han he had taken him to
be when alive adding, at the same
time, that he Twas suffering in pur-
gatory for havid ill-treated, by his refus-
al, SO exemplb a man. and that he
would not be released till his widow had
consented.
All was mute establishment but Bra
bant appeared npre astonished than the
rest. He mode$ly observed that whatev-
er his merits MID be, he had no idea
that they were Wbrthy Of being commemo-
rated by vol from the grave; but
nothing could 3Ve him more pleasure
than to be made lhe happy instrument OF
extricatIng the I'D gentleman from the
pains OF purgatoR, which it seemed he
was suffering OF his account. There
was no doubt as to the voice; no time
was to be lost tie mother and the whole
family Immediately assented, and Lewis
Brabant had the honour OF receiving their
commands to s. eedlly prepare for the
nuptIals.
Toprepare for the nuptials, money was
necessary but RADIANT was destitute o
such an articleI He resolved to try
whether the same talent which had OBJ
tanned for him the promise of wife
might not also obtain ior him the none.
wanted. He recolIected that there live,
at Lyons an old mlser, M. Cornu, wh'
had accumulated immense wealth by usu
ny and extortlon, aud whose conscience
appeared often uneasyin consequence Q
the means which he had used and h
thought thai Cornu was the very charac
ter that might answer his purpose.
To Lyons, therefore, he went, pos
haste, commenced an immediate acqualnl
ance with Cornu, and on every intervle.
took care to contrast the pure happiness
enjoyed by the man whose conscienc
could look back, like M. Cornu's, as h
was pleased to say, Oil life devoted t
acts of charity and benevolence, with tn
horrours of the wretch who had amasse
heaps of wealth by injustice, and who's
tormented mind only gave him now
foretaste of what he was to expect here
after. The miser was always ready t
change the conversation; but Braban
pressed it upon him, till finding, on on
occasion, that he appeared more agltate
than ever and at that instant low, no
low, solemn, sepulchral mutter was heart
as in the former case, which was lound
be the voice of Cornu's father, who ha
been dead some years, and which decla'
ed him to have passed all this time in til
,ortures of purgatory, from which he ha
Just now learned that nothing could ire
him but his sons paying ten thousan
crowns into the hands Of Lewis Braban
then with him, for the purpose OF redeem
ing christian slaves from the hands OF Il
! Turks.