Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-06-24


crosses of miserable life, and that by divine
mercy the hopeless love might be uprooted from
his breast The words burst passionately from
her lips-her whole form quivered with the eX
cess of her emotion, and the big tears fell like
rain from her uplifted eyes. While she was yet
in the very flood of passion, sigh was breath,
ed so clearly audible that the conviction flashed
like lightning on her mind that this most secret
prayer was listened to by other ears than those
of heavenly ministers. Terror, acute terror,
took possession of her soul, banishng, by It's SUI
perior violence, every less engroSSlng idea
She snatched up the lamp from the nche-wa-
ved it slowly around the chamber-and there,
in the most followed spot of her Widowed
chamber, spy upon her unguarded moments,
stood dark figure Even in that moment OF
establishment and fear as if by instinct purely
of female tnodesty she snatched velvet man
tie from the seat on which it had been cas-
aside, al d yelled her person even before she
spoke.
" Oh Cod it is de Chastelar."
Sweet Queen" replied the intruder; bright
beautiful ruler Of my destinies, pardon"
intensity My guards-Seyton-Ca
Fleming We leave your Queen alone:-
with treachery and black Observation-Disclosures
slave" she cried, turning her flashing eye upon
him. her whole form swelled as it were with AL
the fury ofinjured innocence" dids't thou dere
to think that Mary, the wife of Francis, the an
nonted Queen of Scotland, would brook thine
Infamous addressts-Nay, kheel not, or spun
thee-What no. viii no one AID IN HllHe ,2-tie-
nifty"
Clear nought from me-" faltered the WrGtcn-
I'd Chastelar; but with voice like that of some
inspired PythyonCsS, she broke IN" ear!
t,inkst thou that could fear thing, an afJect
coward, like thee?-a wretch that would eXult
in the infamy Of one he pretenus tc love! year
thee~-by heavens, if could have feared, con-
te npt must have forbidden it,"
"Nay, Mary, hear Inc! heaI but one word, +
that word costs my life"
" Thy life hadst thoa Ten thousand lives they
would be but feather III the scale agalnst my
monctrous vilIiany! What ho" again she crled,.
stamping with ilnpotent anger 1t the delay o.
her Attendants" Treason! My guards! Urea
sCnr
Al length the passages rang with the hurried
footsteps of the startled inmates of the palace:
with orch and branGi5hed blades they rushed
late the apartment--page, sentinel, and cham
Observation-Disclosures, with Cisheveled hair, and faces
banchel with terror. TIE Queen stood erect
in the cente ol The room, pointing with one
arm bare 20 tle shoulder, towards the wretch
ed culprit WHO, with folded arms aid mead erect,
awaited his doom in unresiStng silence. His
naked rapior, With Which along he might have
foiled he united cGorls OF his enemies, lay' at
his fee; his Jro,y was white IS sculptured maj
bic and no less rigid, bit his ewes gared VIDE
y, AID lis lips quiveAeo as though he WcuId
have spoken. The Queen, still furious at the
wrong which i!C LGo Gone hel fame, mar~ed
the EXPRESSION. ",5ilenccm she cried" Degrad-
ed! worlG'at thou neanly Beg thy forfeited life?
lFer; hou.l:y tathe,, thou should'st die to-mor-
ow. Ncnce with The villain! Bid Maitland
execute The 'ycrrant Orrself ourself will sign
T. i.Wav! Chast lar dies ct day-break"
lis we'll, replied he calmly, it is well-the
lips 1--we the best pronounce my doom, and die
naLpy Since die for Mar, Woulds't thou but
pity he offender while thou dost doom the Of
.cnve, de ChaStelar would not exchange his
shortened span OF life and violent death for the
lgh+es- crown in Christehdom. My limbs may
diu, but my love will live forever! Lead on,
minions--l am more glad TO die than yo to STAY!
Mair beautfl. Mar, think! think hereafter up-
" CHI stelar"
The guards passed onwar1-lGst ofthe group,
TN .etterel and unEloved, Dc Chastelar stalked
flteY them. Once, ere he stopped beneath the
low-browei portal, he paused, placed both
HANDS on his heart, bowed loWly, AID pointed
upwards IS he chaunted the words "Pe1seG i
noi-Noble Dame -PenseZ a moi" AS he va
liSfe j from ilel presence, she waved her hand
:mpa;iently TO be left alone; and all nighl alone
she lraversed ana re-traversed the floor OF her
chamber in paloXysmS Of the tercest despair.
The warrant was brought to her-senty, stern
y she traced her signature beneath 1t: not
sign Of sympathy was on her paid features, not
, a tremor shook her frame; she was passionate
y majestic and unmoved. The Secretary lett
the chamber on his fatal errand, and Mary was
again woman. PROSTATE upon her couch she
Law, sobbng and weeping as though her very
soul was bursting from her bosom, defying all
consolation, spurning every offer at remedy.
'Tis done!" she would say; "'us done! |
have preserved my fame and murdered my on
ly friend"
The morning dawned slowly, and the heavy
bells of all the churches changed the death peal
Of de Chastelar. The tramp Of the cavalry de-
filing from the palace gates struck on her heart
as though each hoof dashed on her bosom. An
hour passed away; the minute bells still tolling:
the roar Of culverin swept heavily downwards
from the castle, and all was over! He had died
as he had lived, undaunted-as he had lived,
devoted! MARY, divine Mary" were his last
words-"I loved in death as | have loved in
life; thee, and thee only" The axe drank his
blood, and the Queen of Scotland had not
truer servant left behind than he whom, from
moment Of frenzy, she was compelled to Stay:
yet was his last wish satisfied; for though the
Queen might not relent, the woman did forgive,