Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-09-04

VI see your intemperance Of speech is mo-
wise tamed," said the Pacha "ncvcrtheless,
l will forgive all your perverseness, if you
will sing me that sweet song once more"
"The prisoned bird doth oft-timcs sing, it
is true, but never at the bidding of its jailor,
replied Camilla, looking up between smiles
and tears.
The Pacha felt the magic Of her smile,
and the power of her tears but he knew not
how to dismiss the tone Of mastership when
speaking to a woman.
"Comc, my PERI" he said, "it is my
pleasure that you follow me to the banquet
nay, it is useless offering resistance to my
will"
He then, with short of gentle violence,
drew her from the darksone cell, into an
apartment richly carpeted, glittcring with
estcrn magnifcencc, and fragant with burn
ing spices, flowers and essences.
"Come, my princess, letus eat, drink and
be Merry" said the Pacha, placing her be-
side HIM on an embroidered sofa opposite to
the banquet.
81 shall neither eat nor drink, for it is the
vigil Of st. Peter nor am l disposed to sing
or be merry" returned Camilla.
"Do you forget that can force you to do
as command you?" returned Achmet, frow-
ming.
"No: you can neither force me to sing,
nor to be merry but 1 will tell you what
you can dO--yOu can order your Aga and
black slaves to put bowstring about my
neck. and me, as they did poor Sui Bey."
"Suli Boy, again." exclaimed the Pacha
furiousl y-'answer me one questionable
you love that wretched rebel
"No, l did not"
"Why, then, do you torment me with his
name 2"
because he is frequently in my thoughts"
"The other ladies of the harcm have for
gotten him, and l have succeeded to their
love-"
Glove, call you i7" exclaimed Camilla ;
"slaves that they are, in mind, as in person,
they know not the meaning of the word 7"
"Perhaps Tam as ignorant of your sort of
love as you seem to consider my women"
replied A chmet, tlioughtiully.
sob doubt it not. | never heard of
Turk who had the least idea of what love
meant"
"You shall tell me, then, fair creature,
what it signifies, according to your IDEAS"
alt is" said Camilla, raising her bewitch-
ing eyes to his, ian interest so absorbing,
that lover will always prefer the happiness
OF loving, and would prefer dying with her, to
living without her."
81 certainly never have been loved after
this fashion," said the Pacha, after long
pause "yet nothing less will content me
now. And you, Camilla,-havc you lover
in your own country :"
ooh, many"
"Onc that you love thus :"
"No, l have not"
81 fear you are deceiving me-"
"Holy Virgin! what man is this that will
not be satisfied with sincerity and plain deal
ing"
'Nay, Camilla, if you loved me-"
"Ny good Pacha, you must not hatter
yourself into such snpposition. What title
have you to my love :"
81 will strive to deserve it. Twill restore
your cousins to their liberty"
"For which | shall feel most grateful. But
twenty, that will cntitle man to my love-"
ooh, that you would teach me how to
obtain it! ~ said Achmct, passionately.
Come, l will encourage you little; you
arc behaving pretty we'll at present. Yes
terday l detested your very name-to-day
you are almost endurablc; and if YOU wish
to leave an agreeable impression, you will per-
nit me to retire.
mo, l cannot part with you, beautiful
Camilla you shall stay and enchant me
with your presence
Il shall do no such thing. If you force
me to remain with you against my will, I
shall say very disobiging things, and then
we shall quarrel
$50 then, my Perry; but in your dreams
tonight, remember your adoring Achmet."
Il hope, if dream at all, to be favored
with sweet vision of my native land, and
return in slumbcr to the fair hills Of Castillo
is your country, then, so dear to you p
asked Achmet, mournfnly.
My country 7" said Camilla, her lovely
eyes sulliIsing with tears, as the thought off
home passed over her mind-"and shall |
never behold your orange groves again, nor
hear the rus'i of your mighty streams, but
die like a transplanted flower in foreign
soil 2
Such scenes as these were of daily recur-
renee during the time that preparations were
making for the departure of Ansonlo and
Beatrice sometimes they did not end so
placably.
at is that am the slave" would Achmct
say, when the fair Spaniard made him feel
too severely, the chains that bound him
"the slave of your caprices, Camilla. Would
that had never seen you.
"Surely, Achmet,. that was misfortune,
since had not the slightest wish to become
the victim ofths lawless traffic in women that
prevails in this disgusting country"
"By Mahomet, you never open your lips
but with the design Of saying something vex-
atious. Till saw you, was happy; but
you have made me the most miserable of
men | am wretched when absent from you;
and when am near you, your whole study
is to torment me-"
At other times Achmct would sit in Ca
mila's apartment, listening to her guitar-hs
whole soul entranccd in the pleasure of hear
ing and seeing her. One day when he was