The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1839-12-27

md had him REM we'd into the disseeifns
.e.Il. Here the kind surgeon seeing |
hatahe subject was undetihe influence
"a more fendef and skliul operated
disn his owu hand and blade, and The |
,ody needed 10 be clothed rather than
llsmsmbsred, had made pIoyisioo a.
Ia pst exposure, an fu8 ishrd suit OF
fis own garments, in which the Prelen-
ded dead body was hastily habited, and
IN tho disguise passed out, unsusPected
to place Of refuge.
The next day, The BE being ques-
toned, the y herself i lon the mercy Of
her superiors, and confessed the whole
truth, as to her stratagem, with so much
candor, and apparent contr'llon for her
offence, and such protestations Of the
pi,y that had led er to take such q |
course. that she was forgiven, without
penalty.
|, Delorbe had engaged her to him
once more in his asylum, that he might
thank her for the life, she had, in two
fold sense, restored, or saved; and the
gentle nun found means and inclino-
lions to fulfil her promise. Here De-
lorbe made full disclosure of his sem
iiments, and entreated his benefactress
to coneent that she would bless the life
he owed her, by accepting his hand
and fortune, and rendering her destiny
henceiorth inseparable from his; and
proposed that she would fly with him
beyond pursuit, where their union might
be speedily contaminated.
The pious sister was al first startled,
shocked-and she sbsddered at the
thought of breaking her religious vows,
and returning into the ways Of temp'a-
ton and folly, and the delusions Of a
wide and wicked world. For the pearl,
thought she, 'is pure and safe from
blemish; while locked in its shell, though
among the monsters Of the deep, and
the sands and sea- weeds. But, when
thrown out among them, how soon
must it be ruined by the element, Oh
lost irrecoversbly.' Still there was an
!, other idea, that rose in opposition tt
this, about the pearl, "a though ht that i
might be brought to highland set il
- gold, and shine in the crown Of mon
arch, whether mat monarch, was tb'
=, earthly lord of her happiness, or Of
wider sphere Of uomlulon, il indeed one
= own conCer ms and sphere do not com
prise more, and assume wider lntiu
= ence, and higher Importance, than a
the world beside. Bot still Ahe paused
= while her heart proved traitor to he
10 the very moment necessary; an
she could not, for her lie, rally the ar
), guments Of objections, which sh
), thought i, was perhaps her duty to raise
against her lovers proposal and VOC
y was pleading strongly in lie favor.
subtle casuist was operating on her va
,ering soul; and she reasoned, that if
70 70 was sinful to break her convenant vc "
!" and 20 back to the paths ofthe world
j. lung, she was already guilty, since III
y trans gression of the heart was the yer
J." ,oul of actual transgresson; she coul
", ever cease to regret that she ha
VI ,ount herself 10 The letter Of her vow
a. when in spirit she has broken il. slnc
,he let her lover depart without he
', md, since her heart had gone out int
- The ways ofthe wanderer, hand, foo
= and all, might as we'll 60 with IT.
,,I Thus, the pruden, nun dellberate'
balanced and reasoned; and, finally llk
d The young bird, that, having once fouu
, he use of its wings, retuns to It's me-
4 no more, she resolved to keep clear
a the monastic restraints Of the ssteI
~ oIhoo6. and to entrust her fate for bette
-, or for worse, with him who had rende
!. led a life Of seclusion irksome. 49,.
= The, made haste to depart. and pas
- 4ed over into Spain, where the narrato
,e whose purpose was not 10 make out
to ong romantic story about a pair OF lo
,e yers, but rather to record the facts
+ Delorbs's impris sonment aud liberation
,e and the noble traits Of female cbaracl'
by which the letter was brought abnu
= simply says, they were married. Thu
sn Inv legerdemaln, he WATTS them, as
q w,og., over all the perils, the escape
le the rocks, bills, ravines, roses, thorn
l. hedges aud d,tches, that we may SUI
ar pose upon the way, BY an airy and she
D. course, straight to the hymeneal alta
w There he discreeily takes leave of the'
r. wisely forbcanng 10 follow them beyo'
q it, to zee if The disclolsIered nun prov
H. any more faithful to her latter than h
n former covenant; or carrying out h
as theory COUGHING the sins of heart a
en- life into practice, maintained that, sin
he she mig ght follow the multitude TO
he evil Yet, from the moral elemeI
~, whose strong mutual attraction h
he drawn them, into this sacred union,