Southern telegraph., 1838-02-20

ihg-',ll the master spirits in Florence may
| hide their heads now
| Your art, sicnors,' added her companion
to the surrounding artists, can produce no.
thing like that
| did you say boy, Giulicta?' demand
cd the lady.
'Ay, madam, and with shape rs seemly
as my own; and that is something, l ween
$50 young and handsomc?'
His face is as fair and unsDllicd as any
on his own canvass--as fair had almos,
said, rs yours, madam
May, then, if he be so, it were worth a
coronet to see him.
And have you never, is it possible, be-
held him?'
'Ncver, how should !; he has been away
abroad; he has just returned to Italy,
GAY, madam; hut before he went, and
since his return he has, am almost afraid
to say. of:en crossed your path
Mine, Giulctta what do you mcan?'
ALAS! madam, this young painter loves
you; has long loved you with kind of ado
ration which belongs only to enthusiasm,
refinement, intellect and genius
'llow you rCn on! you are child, Gull
e.'a-you JEST
'No, madam
'And if you do not, what care This
young man is audacious if he presume to
think OF me bef,rc have n,erchanged
word with him-beforc know his charac-
ter or listen TO his voice.
'Ah! but madam, you have listened TO
his voice. 1t was he who sung beneath
your window last year, and who saved you
in the path by the river from the ruffian
Bandeni. Despairing of your favor--for
genius is ever notes.-the Withdrew from
Florence and went abroad TO foreign lands
beyond the Alps-I scarce know where.
There his genius for painting drew al! eyes,
and he has carried his art so far, that no no.
bic is richer and no painter more renown-
ed. He has just returned. This is his
first work here. The critics are in rap
lures. and his brother artists are dying Of
envy:
sWcli, hope he has long ago f.rgottcn
me- said the lady, with blush. 81 rencm-
Der the boy you speak of, mere child; no.
bic and rrince-lkc, certainly, but 4 silly
boy. never supposed he had been bold
enough to think Of me; travel has doubtless
cured him. 1t was an idle dream
'Ah! no, madam, Signor Dominica loves
you YET; he sought me yesterday, and, to
say the trnih, induced me to persuade you
here, that he might learn your opinion Of
the Production
sit is most beautiful, it is heavenly; bu
where found he face SD lovely--not or
earth surely?'
st is your portrait, madam, from memory
and he has really succeeded i'll
Iiush, GiuIietta, your tongue has M
bounds
Look, madam, he has entered the hall
this moinent.'
" Let us 90, Giuletta, instantly
Sit is too la.e.'
'lIe bows to you, Giulietta, and with TIT
prcttiest blush. Yes, it is the stranger wh
has so mysteriousy lowered near me--gain
ed an interest in my heart, and then nban
doned me-
'How, madam?
'What have said! ALI! Ginlietia, vol
tray myself. He is coming this way, too
Yes, he apprenticeship rc:reats-b
,e will! re'irc-ynu may never see him agaiD
well, let him come, Will speak TO him
At sign from the maiden, the youn
man approached, with deep obeisanc
and color that rose percept,bly at the ur
wonted honor of being thus publicly pre-
sentcd to the hang!,ticst and most beautifi
of the Floreniine nobility.
Young painer,' said the lady, resumin
her self-possession, and with a grace an
sweetness that dazzlcd the eyes and tn
heart Of that fervid worshipper of beauty
syour production, which attracts the after
ton of all Florence, has not escaped min'
It his afforded me unminsled pleasure
Il am too much honored, > replied the ar
list in low voice, 'when such eyes deign
dwell even for moment upon the hunt
work of these hands,
sNo,' said the lady, raising her dark SO
eyes modestly to his, and then lowerin
Them beneath his ardent gaze, 'you al
wrong; genius. like yours is humble only
Itself. It sisl1s over what to all other mine
is perfcction; and even when it most II
umphs, unconscious of Its power, it mo
despairs.'
Speak again!' said the youth. years
toll, of dependency, of solitude and hop
less gloom are repaid by the sound of yo
voice. Oh! speak again
You may claim from us of the prese
dav, what will he certainly paid you by pe
terity-the need of praise. Report spea
OF your having travelled
& am but Just returned from Flanders
Where you have been studying the d
lighlul arr in which you SO far excel
= your contemporaries
Did you mark that?' said Custagna,
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