Morning herald., 1839-12-23


Bravo, chsvaisr said vivalii gazing at his ioats;
see ysu can be ~ good as your word and the fact
- that you have eaved>me infinite difficulty. There
IS nval IN the case. My Englishwo has Tilted
me 10 the most iatolerable manner and for him For
the last month she has avoided me but al the court
ball last night shs absolutely forgot my existence.
Her eyes were occupied with another objects and on
my venturng to ask the honor Of her hand, in the
most submissive manner, for the next galloPade, she
absolutely lost the faculty Of hearing. Ii foftu
nate that coud not apply to any other of her sens.
e. for the result would evidently have been to do
prive her in succession of them ALL"
"lhe most common case in the world, my dear
VValdi, said the chevaller, turning with patronix-
heure OF the young soldier. "Yoa have made mou-
U0tss tactique. Yeur blushing nnocencein in the mat
Ter OF wemen has betrayed you. Rely upon the ex-
perlence OF one who knows them well, that If you
self at their feet; and the equally true way TO make
them follow you 10 to turn vour back upon them"
But what Is 10 be done? | am in a state Of dis
uactlon" The handsome count strode up and down
the apartment with the energy of his countxymen on
all occasions, of debt, dancing and despair. "Ths
rival of mine Is the talk, the gaze, the holiday won
der, of the court; certainly Of the nandsomest
fellows that has ever appeared there. think he calls
himself Greek Count Cantacuzene, royalty descen-
ded, and so forth. must run hlm through or shoot
him. for all that; and you must help me-"
with infinite pleasure" was the reply. "But caH
the lady, can any lady be serious in declining the
very Vesuvan heart, and, will allow, the very we'll
made figure of the Count Vvaldl? What will King
Joachim say? what will the women say! what will
the world say?'
THAT am mad!" was the answer.
swell, the case is common. But you should have
waited for half eoxen years more until the volcano
that Is born within every man was burnt out. Then
you might have fallen in love-with the lady's equ.
page and estate; without caring ths value OF Nea-
polltan order whether either she yourself had a
heart. Gene, the day is hot, take glass OF this
sherber' i was made by the receipt which inad from
the lips of the reignng Sultana. Her hRhncss would
not have written it for the dadem of Cons,antinople
Or take this guitar, and like true son of the CAM
pagna Felice, ,hrum away all your sorrows to SO.
naia"
G adnski offered HIM the guitar was refused, threw
his fingers it with the skill of proficient, and
sang Wild bold air which he declared TO have
been bis introduction TO the heart Of princess Of the
Uraiian mountains He suddenly broke off, and asked
the name OF the lovely and right honorable jt.
''The Lady Caroline Mordaunt."
GradinskIs bronzed cheek grew as saow as his
friends. quiver of his daring features showed that
he too could wri,he. He laid down the guta- paused
for moments one of those moments in which such
world ofthought may run through the mind then,
like of the continent, tossed his cares to
the winds, with some thing not unlike decided de
vehement OF her lady ship TO less auspcious protec
ton than that of the saints; and with Neapelitan
twrl Of his fingers finished the whole.
This pantomime would have probably produced
questions from the young Count but that for the time
he had lest ears eyes, and tongue; or rather, his
eyes had absorbed all his other senses, they being
fixed like two flames upoa the slow moving pageant
Of a chariot which had just made It's entree upon the
ChiaJa. twas an English chariot, drawn by snowy
pair of English horses and exhbiuBg that most su
Perb Of all things, superb English wcmar, surreun
ded by half dozen cavaliers on horseback, who, Of
course, lived but her s.aIles, and whom she dis
pensed those smiles with the generous profuslon
An exclamation broke at ence from the lips Of the
Two friends the counts scarcely above q sigh, the
chevaicr's not far from a sacre.
$50 there goes your enchantress," said Gradinski.
AT last ITO which OF these fellows about her am
10 carry his death warrant"
Vlvaldl glanced upon the groupe, as il now passed
close under the easement ITO none OF them. The
gentleman by whom am superseded strongly
pect never attempted so rude an experiment as Sit
ting horse; he is filter for ssfas, guitars and
cays,nas. Yet he is perhaps only the suitable
10 the endless caprces of woman. He is singulnrly
handsome. with thai winning tone CT voice. half ne
half siph which the VeHetians pronounce perfection;
and which HIS gondola life has taught HIM, for the
honor Of our country"
"Well we'll" said his friend, "the breeze is too
pleasant for US to waste Il in hls hot rooa,. Are you
for ride TO Pausilppo, or fal en- the Bayl Apro
pos, 10 night the D.amanti makes her debut at the
San Carlos, and every villa for leagues round will
he empued to see her. Ah! la beiiissima." And
GrandInski threw himself into an opera attitude, and
al am weary of the world,' was vvaldfs detected
reply.
"very well. If yoa are sick of the land, we have
only to Try the water"
He touched bell On the table; a valet entered
orders te have the barge prepared were gwen and in
a few minutes the friends, with PAIR of Ncapo.
liian eutars's, the common aPpenGage of opulsnt
establishments, tnklng their strings to the ecccninc
bat often Of the lazzaroni, floating far
away from tho noise of the city, over waters az
smooth and as brilliant as the skies above them.
That night was a memorable one in the city Of the
Lsves and Graces. La Diamanu, who was pro-
riounced 10 be the daughter Of them ALL performed
merUeiHe The Neapolitans, the most cognoscenti
that ever enraptured with cavatins, were
IN greater raptures than any record ;-"SRe was
Gree, Calypso, living spell !"
But Italy. which has been described as lovely
child, this night showed that the truer comparison
might bc-a lovely woman-providcd that woman
were an Italian. From the smleso n sunset which
might have figured in a Mshometan paradise the
first caprces Of elements dspeasure began display
themselves in flashes and fparklings; soon came
clouds that might well pass for rowns Of the skies
and then, TO drop the picturesque Of the portrait came
al the rage rollrnrs, and roarngs Of genuine storm
OF the South. All Naples was IN Its usual state of
when any thing hnppers, from the
rival ef new snnt or new fiddler, down IL the fall
Of dynasty. But the conservation now proceedea
TO lengths unhesrd Of in Neapoliian annals, for II
broke up the opera For while the pesls OF thun
der and the clutter o. tho lightning rather added To
Inc picturesque OF affairs upon tae stage and the au
alence were layiag wagers on the rivalry between
the prma donna, the kettle drums, and the tempest
The blue geams Of the lightning, which shot IN from
the numberless inserstices that vcntlate roof and
wall in every public building of the faires of all pen