The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-07-31

me what it is." ITS the ten of spades
said the boy. Behold here parents"
said the priest, "a proof of what 1 have
told you. scattered these among you
to convince the congregation that these
children understood cards better than
their prayers "-- Lowell Compend.
The following strange and mournful
story is in an article translated for the
Albion, from the Memoirs Of celebrat-
ed French woman.
Miss O. lived with Lord Byron
nearly year, page in the day, woman
at night.--Attentive, tender, and sincere
in her love and attachment, sho perhaps
hoped thut wedlock might some day re-
store her to tho world.-This secretly
entertained illusion, combined with
character naturally gay. completely
blinded this young lady TO the real state
Of her case. She had left in London a
father ia but middling circumstances.
and to whom every fortnight she afforded
pecuniary assistancc.--At length some
indiscrec, friend wrote to her to say that
this forsakep father, in u moment OF
dispair had shot himself. Could il be
the consequence of his embarrassed af-
fairs, or on account of his dishonored
daughter! Miss g. unfortunately har-
bored the latter idea, but she said noth-
ing TO Lord Byron, who remarking that
she now often avoided him, and occupied
herself IN writing, at length succeeded
in surprising her and discovered her Sc
cret.
Miss c. had determined to poi
son herself, and had written her declara-
tion to that effect, in order that after her
death no ono might be accused or I'M
plicated therein. Lord Byron now
causes her 70 be watched and having
possessed himself Of tho poisonous pow
der she had produced, substituted in its
place one completely ofinnoccnt nature.
One evening Miss G.. affected more than
usual gniety, 4and pretended TO sleep
calmly by tho side of her lover, who, be-
ing aware that sho thought that she had
swallowed that very day the draught
which was To consign her to the other
world, was hoping to laugh the next
morning at her unexpected awakening
after a sleep which she fully expected to
be her last. Lord Byron, however, had
no reason for indulging in sleep himself;
but what was his anxiety and distress OF
mind at dawn of morning, to be able no
where to find Miss CT The let
ter which announced her fatal determina-
ton was upon the table. Doubtless.
thought his lordship, convinced that the
fatal fluid is circulating in her veins, she
must have absentod herself to avoid
shocking me with the FIRST sight Of her
as corpso-but she will return restored
even by her own attempt and with this
hope Lord Byron became more compos~
ed.-Neverthecss Miss O. return
ed no more, and every possible inquiry
proved useless. 1t was not till after the
lapse of whole week that this misguid-
cd and unfortunate lady was found, in
the last agonies Of deaih, in the sepul-
chral tomb Of tho Byrons, where she
had shut herself in SO as to be quite un-
able to get out again. What must have
been her anguish Of mind during eight
long days Of agony, suffering the torturcs
Of hunger instead Of poison
"This melancholy cntastrophe," said
Lord Byron, elias worked more upon
my mind and Imagination than any Of
tho vain motives to which persons have
wished to attribute the caprice of my
disposition my natural gaiety of mind
being dried up in its iounsain-spring, T
hcnceforward sought tho reputation of
an assumed gaiety TO drive away intru-
sive melancholy. You may now under
stand whence arises the bitterness ofmy
smiIe." ~ va : fs'' B 4 i''-
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