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Turing her life. But Blanca smiled with
, smile Of satisfied happiness, as, leaning
On her husbands arm, she stopped before
he hut which was to be their future hoTe.
The miners hut become daily more
happy abode; the eyes Of its inhabitants
we're soon accustomed 10 the dim light, and
all that had seemed so wrapt in darkness
when they first entered the mines, gradu-
ally dawned into distinctness and light. |
Blanca began to look with real pleasure
on the walls and rude furniture Of her too. |
narrow room. She had no time to spend
in useless sorrow, for she was continually
employed in the necessary duties of her
situation, she performed with cheerful
alacrity the most mental Offices, she re-
paired her husbands clothes, and she was
delighted III she could sometimes take down
from an old shelf, one Of the few books
she had brought with her. The days
passed on rapidly; and as the young pair
knet down at the close Of every evening,
their praises and thanksgiving were as
fervent as their prayers. Ernest had not
been surprised at the high and virtuous
enthusiasm which had enabled Blanca 10
support, at first, all the severe trials they
underwent without striking; but he mas
surprised to find that in the calm, the dull
hopeless calm, of undiminished hardship,
her spirit never sank; her sweetness of
temper and unrepining een,lencss rather
increased
Another trial was approaching. Bian-
ca, the young and tender Blanca was
about to become mother; and one eve-
ming, on returning from his work, Ernest
found his wife making clothes for his
unborn infant. He sat down beside her;
and sighed; but Blanca was singing merriIy
and she only left off singing to embrace
her husband with smiles, he thought the
sweetest smiles he had ever seen.
| The wife Of one Of the miners, whom
Blanca had visited when lying i'll of a
dangerous disease, kindly offered to attend
her during her confinement; and from the
arms Of this woman, Ernest received his
lirst-born son; the child, who, born under
different circumstances, would have been
welcomed with oil the care and splendor Of
a noble rank. But he forgot this, in his joy
that Blanca was safe, and stole on tiptoe
to the room where she was lying. She
had been listening for his footsteps, and as
he approached, he saw in the gloom Of the
chamber her white arms stretched towards
him. 81 have been thanking God in my
thoughts" said Blanca, after her husband
had bent down to kiss her; 'but am SC
very weak! Dear Ernest kneel down beside
the bed, and offer up my blessings with
your own" Surprising strength seemed
to have been given to this delicate mother
by Him "who tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb" and she recovered rapidly
, from her confinement.
Shortly after this an express arrived
from Vienna, inquiring if Aberti or bis
wife were still alive. A few hours after
, another person arrived with the same haste
! and on the same errand; they were, the
. one near relation Of Blanca, The other
:. Alberii's fellow soldier and most intimate
!, friend. Pardon had at length beer
; granted to the exile, at the petition of the
, general officer whom he had wounded
and Albert was recalled by the Empress
herself to the court Of Vienna.
The bearers of these happy tidings i'm
meGiately descended into the mines. Al
they approached Alberti's hut, The ligh1
which glimmered through some apertures
in the shattered door, induced themt look
at its inmates before they entered
Though dressed in dark coarse garment
and wasted away to an almost incredible
slightness, still enough Of her former love
| illness remained to tell them, that the palit
female they beheld was the young Coun
| tess; and the heart admired her more, Al
, she sat leaning over her husband, 81 holdin!
1 up to his kisses her small infant, her darl
, hair carelessly parted, and bound roam
! her pale brow, seemiog to live but in he
husbands love; than when elegance ha
Wed with splendor in her attire, when he
hair had sparkled with diamonds; and iu
}. health and beauty, she had been the on
gazed at and admired in the midst OF IN
!. noblest and fairest company Of Vienn'
A The door was still unopened, for Blanc
y was singing 10 her husband, she had cho
= en- song which her hearers had llstene
i to in her saloon, on the last night she he
: sung there; the soft complaining notes
!. her voice had seemed out of place Their
where all was careles mirth and festivlt,
= but it's tone was suited to that dark so
/ tude-it was like the song Of hope in Il
I. cave Of despair.
4 There were many hearts that sorrow
., over the departure Of the young Albel
r. and his wife from the mines Of Idria. IT
!. miners. with whom they had lived so Ion