The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-09-19
SELECTED TALES.
LOVE AND CONSTANCY.
BY =. BURKE FISHER.
Concluded.
CHAP. IU.--REYERSES.

CORCNhdCd.
CHAP. m.--REvERsrs.
For mortal pleasure-what arc thou in truth!
The torrents Smoothness ere it dash below
There was slaughter in the streets of Pa
ris Revolution, not the revelation of n
shackled aud indignant people rising TO as
sert their rights but of wild mob,
4 The scum
That rises upmost when nnion bols,'
stalked in the palaces of the mighty, desc
Grating their ancestral domes, aud trcadius
down with demoniac fury the irophied
houors of their sires. Faction-lawless
and uaprincipled iaclion-usurpcd the tri-
bunals of justice--its acts were the de-
! Ihronement of kings, ratified in the blood of
princes. The headless trunk of the Bour-
bon was cast beneath the feet of his people,
in their fury, and TO weep for him was to
share his fate , The regal Antoinetle, too
the fairest, yet alas the most hapless of
the daughters of Lorraine-was dragged
TO the accursed block, and in rapid sccess-
ion her chivalrous defenders kissed the
guilloiine recking with the blood of ;hcir
sovereigns. The tiger Anarchy, was n.
broad IN Gallia, and his fangs rent asunder
the liie-strings of all who owned not his
sway, while the wild shouts that ushered
IN the blood-wasbed republic was mingled
with the wall of France for her slaughtered
and dl>honored chvnlry.
Marmont Witnessed the deca pitation of
his royal relative, and heard from his cell
the cry that told the murder Of the queen.
a blank of a few days eusned he was drag
ged from his dungeon dash in the rec
ords of the criminal tribunal, aud all that
remained Of Frederick, Duke Of Marmonii,
was his manelcd aud Iileless corpse. Did
the wife Of Marmonli share the grave of
her lord /!
Seated in the oriel of an apartment in the
PaLaiS du ViHiSfercs des Affairs et EtrdR-
gtres, was a lady clothed IN n suit Of sn-
bles. The year wns IN its decline, aud the
melancholy aspect Of the external world
! served TO deepen the gloom that sat tbron-
ed upoE The features of the mOurner. Ey-
er and anon The honrse roar of the multi
tude in the adjacent place swept into The
room, MS some popular leader vented his
oraiory: or from the Boulevard below the
window there would ascend the voices Of
the patriotic artzans, us they repeated in
stunning chorus,
Aux arnes ci,oyens. fornons nos blttaionc
Marchons; qu'un sang mpur abreuvc nos sillons =
She shuddeIed as these sounds broke upon
her ear, ard when from the Place VeRdonRc
there daried thousand artificial meteors,
aided in effect by the discharge of artillery
she shrouded her face with her hands aud
wepi convulsiyely.
The door was thrown open and yIsItct
announced, but absorbed in grief she heed
ed not the tdings. The vlsiter advance,
until within few feet aud paused as If n
waiting her attention, but still she noted no
his proximity.
Lady, murmured the strangcr-God o
heaven could it be lis voice - DulChes
of Marmonii will you not speak to your for
mer friend 2 Yes, those tones were his
his, whom in her girlhood she had so mucl
cause to love and honor, whom IN her wo
manhood she had sllghted and detained
And what did he here ! Had Harw0ot
heard Of her mislortunes, aud was his err
rand TO the wretchcd that he might triumph
in her wretchedncss The passions Of heI
race bllIItu UtI obN ~ ''''
opinion, and throwing back the dislcveled
TIngIeis from her carewOrn features she
raised her flashing eyes 10 the face oi The
speaker; but the snddened look and pl'eous
glance that me; her gaze. spoke not Joy but
sorrow for her misery, nnd agiIn her head
was hidden from her companions anxious
: gaze.
Maryland the voice ofihe Speaker was
fraught with eno,ion-Mary, and rs " thn,
name conjured up old and familiar nssocia-
,ions, he seated himself beside her; tear
filled in his eye, and dropped upon the htnd
he pressed within his own. That teor! IL
ooened the foodgates ofmcnory aud told u
| b,o,bef', love. The sufferer saw ~ the
: beipr before her, the man she had 50 deep
lv injured 10 his riches, affections, aud lean
ing 6er head upon bis shoulders, she poured
forth her gref, even as she won, to do 10
earlier, happier days. =,
Time rolled renuently 10 As channels and
her companion was once more the Harry Oi
I Bsrnsinble, and she again Mary DestraiL
Cheated by the phantom Of Happiness the
kindly demeanor of IIlrwood creoicd, slg
wept the mnrc, but her tears were nat wrung
from the heart, aud when 10 the outpourings
of his sympathy he spoke of her departure
rom Pafis and - nssOoia'ions, RnI pa niec