Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1840-01-04

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OF us1 Are we again to be cast out into
the wide worlds Unhappy child would
that thou hadst never been born. And
all day long she lamented. but tears a.
vailed her little. The others were not
slow 10 returning TO claim their due, and
there We're no tidings of the thief, he
had Ted away with his plumber A pro-
cess against her was instantly begun al
Bologna, and what defence could she
make, how to release herself from the
obligation Of her bond? Wlfullv or
negligeatly She had parted with it to one.
when she should have kept II for all; and
inevitable rlin awaited her!
Go Giannetta.- said she to her young
dfu ghter, stake this veil which your mo-
ther has worne and wept under so often.
and imPlore councillor Catherine &c
plead for US on the day Of trial. But il
he viii not, 60 from door to door-Mon-
adj cannot refuse US. Make haste my
child, but forget not the chapel, as you
pass by il. Nothing Prospers without a
prayer
Alas. she's went-but in vain. Those
were retained against them; others de-
manded more than they had to give, and
every one babe them despair. VIVA;
was to be done? No advocate, and the
cause was to come on Tomorrow
Now Gianetta had a lover, and he was
student at law, young man of great
promise, Lorenzo Martelli. He had stu
died long and diligently under that learn
ed lawyer, Giovanni Andrcas, who tho
OF little stature, was great IN renown.
and by his contemporaries, was called
the arch doctor, the rabbi of doctors, the
light of the age. Under him. he had
studied, sitting on the same bench with
Petrarch; and also under his daughter.
Novella, who would often lecture TO the
scholars when she was not otherwise en-
gagged, placing herself behind a small
curtain, lest her beauty should divert
their thoughts, u precaution in this IN
stance unnecessary, Lorenzo having lost
his heart to another.
To him she flies in the necessity; but
Of what assistance can he bel He had
inst taken his place at The bar; but he
had never spoken, and how stand up a.
lone, unpTaciiced and unprepared as he
is, against an array that would alarm the
most experienced.
Were | as mighty as ] am weak"
said he, "my fears for you would render
me as nothing But will be there, Cha
META, and may the friend Of the friend
less give me strength in that hour. T.
ven now my hear. fails me, bat, come
what will while | have loaf 10 share,
you and your mother shall never want
| viii beg through the world for you
The day arrived, and the court as
sembled The claim is stated, and the
evidence giyen-and now the defence is
called for, bat none is made, not sylla-
bic is altered and after a pause and
some minutes in consultation, the Judges
were proceeding to give judgment silence
having been proclaimed in court when
Lorenzo arises. aud thus addresses them
ssReycrend Seigaors-foun as am
may | venture TO speak before you?
would speak in behalf Of one who has
no one else TO help her, and will not keep
you long Much has been said-much
on the sacred nature of the obligation.
and we acknowledge it in its full force.
Let it be fulfilled; and TO the very last
lcttee Il is what we solicit-what we
require. But to whom is the bag oil
god TO be delivered! What says the
bondl Not % onc,-not to twol but to
ihree! Lot theThree stand forth and
claim itin
From that day (Cor who can doubt the
issue none were sought, none employ
ed but the subtle and eloquent Lorenzo
Wealth followed fame; nor need | say
how soon he sat at his marriage feast, or
who sat with him.