The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-02-28

country; ior 10 thee il will be given II
taise II iromthe depth Of its afflictIon.'
| Felayo would have inquired farther
INTO the evils thus foretold, but the her
NIT rebuked bis curiosity.
Seek not to know more, said he,
tnan Heaven is pleased to reveal
Clouds and darkness cover it's designs
and prophecy is never permitted to hfl
uP' out In part, the veil that rests upon
the future.'
When the first rays ofthe rising sun
shone upon the tops o. the mountains,
tho travellers assembled round the foun,
tam beneath the tree, and made their
mornings Tepast. Then, having
then having received the benediction Of
The hertn:t, they departed in
the freshness Of the day. and descen.
ded along the hollow defiles leading IN
to Spain.-The good merchant was re-
freshed BY sleep, and his NOR ning's
meal; when he beheld bis wife and
daug hler thus secure by bis side, and
the hackney laden with his treasure
close behind him, his heart was light in
hts bosom, and he carolled a chanson
as he went, and the woodlands echoed
to his song. But Pelayo rode in silence,
TOR ne revolyedI In his mind the porten-
tous words Of the hermit; and the daush-
ter of the merchant. eyed him with ten.
derness and admration,& ,& deep sighs be
trayed the agitation of her bosom.
At length they came TO the fooI of the
mountain, were the forests and the
rocks terminated, and an open and Sc
cure country lay before the travellers.
Here they halted, for their roads we're
widely different. When they came to
part, the merchant and his wife were
loud in thanks and benedictions, and
the good burgher would fam have Pc
layo the largest of his sacks of gold; but
the young man put it aside with a smile.
Silver and gold,' said he, need | not,
but if l have deserved aught at thy
hands, give ire thy prayers, for the pray
ers ofa good man are above all price,
In the meantime, The daughter had
never spoken word. At length she
raised her eyes, which were filled with
tears, and looked timidly at Pelayo, and
her bosom ,hrobbed, and after violent
struggle between strong affection & vir-
gin modesy her heart relieved itself by words.
'Senor, said che, i know that am
unworthy Of the notice of noble ca,
alier; but suffer me to place this ring up
oD finger Of that hand which has 60
braveiy rescued us from death;and when
YOU regard it, you may consider It as
memorial of~your own valor, and not Of
me who is too humble to be remembe,
ID by you'-
With these words shs drew,,a ring from her
finger, and put ii upon the finger ofPelayo; and
having done this, she bluslled and hembled at
her nwn boIdness, and stood as one abashed,
with her eyes cast down upon the earth.
Peayo was moved at these words of the sim.
pie maiden, at the touch of her tair hand, and
1t her beauty, as she stood thus trembling and
ing of women, and his heart was free from the
snares of love. Amiga (friend) said he, i
iceept thy present, and will wear it in remenl>
brance Of thy goodness, so saying he kissed
ler on the cheek. The damsel was cheered by
hese words, aud hoped that she had awakened
some tenderness in his bosom; but it was no
such thing, says the grave old chronicler, for
his heart was devoted to higher and more sacred
matters; yet certain is, that he always guarded
we'll that ring,
When they parted, Pelayo remained, with
his huntsmen on cliff, watching that no evil
befoI them until they were far Beyond the skirts
Of the mountain; and the damsel often turned 10
look at him, until she could no longer discern
lin, for the distance, and the tears that dimmed
,or eyes.
And, for that he had accepted her ring, says
he ancient chrouicler, she considered herself
welded to him in her heart, and would never
marry; nor could she he brought TO look with
eyes Of affection upon any ether man. hut for The
true love which she bIre Pelayo, she lived and
died vergin. And she composed book which
treated of love and cbivalry, and the temptations
Of this mortal lifai and one part dlscoursed Of
CELESTIAL matters, and it was called 'The cOn>
temptation of love-" because, at the time she
wrote it, she thought of Pelayo, and of his hav-
ing accepted her jewel, and called her by the
gentle appellation Of "Amiga." And often
thinking Of him in her tender sadness, and oil
her never having beheld him more, she would
take tho book, and would read 1t las ifin his
stead; and while she repeated the words o
love which it contained, she would endeavor
to fancy them uttered by Pelayo and that he
stood beside her.