The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1840-12-23

Tha;lhon wilt needs inveSIthce with nine honoTs
Before NY hour b rire ~
sheakspeares Henry w
Maria, I'm dying
Say not so say 10, so - exclaimed the
daughter casping the old mans feverish, with.
eied hand in hers. The cordial you have tab
en- will soon relieve YOU
On cried the inyalij, i, burns il burns
great Heaven | am poisoned
Hush = exclaimed the girl casting her dark
flashing eyes round the room.
Speak net-,he fewer troubles you-hush /.
hush sleep--ob, sleep, my father.
The sleep Of death. moancd the sufferer,
: | am poisoned | feel i, at my heart,' conlin-
ued the old MN wriihing in agony Have
Won sent for the Surgeon :
i have | have = replied the other, looking
once more round the lofty apartment,
] Il did not see you leave the room. Maria,
said the suffering father, turning his eyes tow
ards her with Ghasly stare.
The iever dsiurhs you Try to sleep
The old man turned with fieful rcSllessucss
on the pillows his daughters hand had arrange
ed. his breast still painted with unsubdued ago
ny. and his hollow eyes although fixed on va
canry were bright even to wildncss.
! Ii was lofty gothic chamber. The win
do~s were high and narrow, and raulcd
with the fierce gusts Of stormy Nevem-
bcr night The flames OF the candles flick
cied aud burned darkly in the rooai, their dim
light giving gloomy effect to the sombrc vast
ness Of the room, while the oak pauneed walls,
The vaul,cd root aud the helpless aspect Of the
grey haired man, who lay extended upon the
cushioned couch. realized melancholy picture
Of the stern law Of all mortal possessions, lhey
shall pass away
Yet the picture vas realized By an object rs
! lovely rs ever inspired an artists pencil. or
sraoed - courtly hall. Maria dc Courcy sa, Oh
a low ottoman by her fathers side. The dark
eyes and noble features Of long Norman line,
gave proud grace to a beauty more dazzling
perhaps than attractive yet she was bcauti-
ful, and eminently so-it WIS beauty to admire
-io worship perhaps, but not 10 love; the
meek dependence tha, Turks in the soflness Of
woman's glance, the calm ecnllencss Of exries-
sion, which seems to seek as 1t were for some
object for virtue aud love 10 rest upon.
we're unknown to the young hencss Of Lyn-
woodland the perfect symmetry OF her person /;
graceful and striking As it was, served father to
give support TO the haughtness Of her aspect.
than to cnJcar the feelings which that aspect
created
The storm increased; the aged sufferers moans
became louder, and more frequent; his white
lips quiyered convulslccly aud his wild eyes
fixed fearfnly on his child. She took Que OF
Ais half cienchrd hands in hers and bent ove'
il. The dark hair fell in clusters over her face,
her eyes refused TO encounter her fathers
dying look; bur she wept not.
Maria groamed De C0urty in 4 (eebieT
tome will the surgeon never come .,
He will soon be here whispered the daugh-
ter wilhou, raising her head.
My brain IS on FIRE, | am po,soued-pois-
oncJ. Mara! where is Morris, and the rest Of
the servants; where are they all no one comes
to hslp nc =
The old man drew her TO hts bosom, and
kissed her cold whine brow, then fell back On
the pillow exhausted.
But the agony Of expiring nature refused
hun repose, and Maria At length summoned the
domestic briefly informing them N whispers
that her father had sudden relapse OF the
attack he bad before suffered from. but that she
thought it would soon pass away. lhe old
butler hung over hs master, Supported ms
head, and hurriedIy enquued why no one had
been sent for Mr. Harley, The village Surgeon
No answer was returned, but IN an Instant two
of the servants lefI the room, aud the olStier oi
horses hoofs Oh the paved court under the VIM
dow, showed that they had ridden of on a has
~ errand.
IN about an hour The SurgeCn arrived but
ere then the Square OF Lyuwood laya corpse
in his ancestral hill
The confusion in the house was extreme
The frequent indispo.iIIon Of the master had
not been unknown 10 the servants, but M one
had anticipated tbs, death was 80 near, and his
fearful asooes as they all stood around him
h4d in.rea.ed The sudden ef,o, which the sud
Jsn event had oressisned.
i Kind, usrm -heareJ snd generous, Walter de
Courey va, looked up to BY his servant, sitb
respect little short Of idoiatry. Yet II 10 his
sepeodsn,s he vas open. handed. snd to his
friends sincere, his daue hler had ever found his
very sGectiop to be bondage. Losing her moth
er a, her biuh. bis love for the pledge she bad
left him. his ouly child, the heiress Of his lands
and sse..ut name had unkno~n to himself CIV
en- stsrnnsss 60 his treatment Ct the proud
hearted girl which spirit impatient ofeonirni
naturally rsbclled against. The Old father for
20, IN. feelings of the woman IN his love fo'
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