The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-06-20

dread oflI,eir secret being discovered almost.
overcome her distress ut the bare thought Of
her foster child.
The Baron will kill us if he hears Of you
and yet did il for the best; ,hought
he must he dend, and knew you ought TO
marry none hut n noble. Who could have
thought Count Adalber would prove SO false
hearted 7
Such were the constant lamentations of
the old nurse whenever they were alone
but the secret she had to keep was too much
for her and six weeks afier leaving the cot
iage, Ursuline was safe from von HaitzlnS
gers anger in the grave.
Theresa wepi for her long and bitterly
many sorrows took the seinbleBce ofone.-
Treated as child, offered the amnscments
and tle rewards of child, when her hears-
was full ofthc grief and care ef womsn--
hourly she was more and more thrown up
on herself Her father, who considered cv-
cry moment lost which was not given to the
pursuit of education, debarred himself from
her society. il was a sacrifice, but to Their
esa il appeared choico and he thus rcpell-
ed the confidence which kindness and fa-
miIiar intercourse might have encouraged.
She soon took an interest in employmcnts
selected for her--ihey served to divert her
attention from remembrance that grew
continually more painful. Every step she
gained in knowledge, every experience
brought by reading or conversation, but
served to show her more fully the difficulty
Of her disposition.
Love is the destiny of woman's life,
and hers had been senlcd on the threshold
of existence; il was too late now to change
the color of or alter the past. Theresa's
greatest enjoyment was to wander through
the lonely garden though the leaf and the
flower conld never more be TO her the COM
panions they had 6ecn, still, when alone,
they nidcd her in recalling The days when
they were mute witnesses Ia vows which had
the common fate Of being kept but by one.
The difference between herself and those
Of her own age consisted IN ,llis, that they
looked 10 the future, she dwelt upon the
past, they hoped, she only remembered.
The young Countcss's instructors were
loud in their praises Of her doci!ty and pro-
gress the French governess rcmnrking.
Made emoiseilc espleins talcns ct des graecs !;
n.ais ellie eet 81 silent cieuse.
The two years passed, and Theresa wss
To accompany her father to Vienna. The
Baron Won Haitzcnger, who had never quite
recovered the shock Of finding TINT his
dnughIcr could only speak German, and
could neither rend nor write, was utterly
unprepared for the sensation she produced
on her introduction into society. Theresa
at twenty more than realized the promise Of
seventeen; yet il is singular how much Tie
character Of her beauty was changed. She
had been glad, bright, buoyant creature,
with check like rose, a mouth radIcnt
will, smiles, aud the golden curls dnncing
in sunny profision over the bushes they
shaded. Now her hair and eyes were much
darker, her cheek was pale and the gene
raj cast Of her face melancholy and thought
ful her step was still light, bot slow,-it
wns urged on no longer by inward buoyan-
cy; aud il pninter, three years 5ef're
would have chosen her as n model for the
youngest Of the Graces, he would now have
selected .,er for the Ioylest Of the Muses.
80 ETHEREAL. 30 intellectual was that sad ex-
pressive countcnnncc. Her father was
charmed with the ease and self possession
Of her p,anner--the perfection o' beautiful
repose true, ii was broken in upon ny none
of the slight yet keen excitenents OF a sea-
son given to gnicty.
The Countess was wholly Indifferent 10
tho scene that surrounded her--to its pleas
urc aud its triumph, she had standard of
her own by which she measured enjoy uent
and found that what was here deemed
plensure by others, to be vupid and WORTH
less: and now, more than ever the image
Of AdaIbort rose present to her mind. She
compared him with the many cavaliers ~
bout her and the comparison was, MS
ever is. in favor Of the hearts earliest idol.
Even when unconsciousy yielding to tho
influence exercised by light, music, and
plittering crowd, Theresa would start back,
and muse on what might be the fate OF n
dalben mt that very moment for, win
confidence belonging To youth aud women,
she admitted any suggestion rather than tho
one of his Inconsistency. Two or three
brilliant conquests cost her sIeepIcss night
and n mile cheek but rs her father always
ncquicsced in prompt refusal, size srad"-
ally became happy in belief that nc did
not desire her marriage.
One evening NIL Vienna was assembled
at reunion given by the French Ambns-
sador.-Dazzlng with jewels, and looking
her very IovIicst, Theresa was seated beside
The lady who accompanied her, when her
eye suddenly rested on Adalbert. A dense
crowd was between them, but the platform
on which he was standing enabled him to
see over their heads; and he was evidently
gazing on her. With faint cry, she half
started f-om her scst--fortunntely she was
unobserved, and again sinking back in hes
chair. she endcavored to collect her scatter
ed spiras from their first confusion Of sur
prise and delight. Her astonishment had
yc, to be increased. The Baron appeared
on the scene, greeted the stranger most cor