New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-22

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whom thou feelest alone can serve lnee.
Caraccioi. aided BY the priest, knet on 1ne soa.-
fold for the rope hung loose ehoush ~ r
that act of humiliation, and 1he other oeht at MS
side l.
b r,uttered Cufee, as he turned away MS face,
;,advertently bending his eyes on the foudroyans,
,e.,lv under the stern of which ship his gig lay.
! There. in the sternwalk, stood the lady, already
mentioned in this Chapter, keen spectator OF
rie awful scene No one but a maid was near
her, however, the men of her conpaaionship not
| being of moods stern enough to be at her side.
Cuc turned away from this sight in still stronger
disgust; and Just at that moment a common cry
! arose from the boats. Looking round, he was
JUS, in time TO see the unfortunate Caraccioli drag
ged from his knees by the neck until he rose, by a
steady man-ef-war pull, to the end OF the yard !;
leaving his companion alone OR the scatiold, still
lost in PRAYER There was horrible minute, OF
The struggles between life and death, when the
bodv, so late the tenement Of an immortal spirit,
hung, like one of the jewe.blocks of the ship,
dangling passiyely at the end of the spar, es in
sensible a. the wood which sustained it.
long summers evening did the body of Fran
cesco Caraccicli hang suspended at the yardarm
of the Minerva; revolving spectacle to bis couh-
trvmen and to most of the strangers who had been
witnesses of his end. Then it lowered into
a boat It's feet loaded with double headed shot,
and il was carried out a league or more into the
bay and cast into the sea. The revolving manner
in which it rose TO the surface and confronted It's
dcstroyers fortnightafter has passed into history
and to this day forms one of the marvels related
by the ignorant and wonder-loviDg OF that region
LOVE AND DEATH.
. An hour passed, all on or near the rock sleep
ing, overcome by fatigue, but Ghita and the dying
man.
"That star haunts me- Ghita" Raoul at length
rnuttercd If i, be really world, some aIl-pow-
erful hand must have created it. Chance never
made world more than chance made ship.
rhought-mind- intelligence must have governed
at the formation Of one, as we'll as OF the other.
For months Ghita had not known an instant a.
happy as that. 1t appeared as if the mind OF
Raou We're about to extrcate itself from the
shallow philosophy SO much in fashion, and which,
had hitherto deadened nature kind, an intel
lect ordinarily so clear. Could his thoughts but
once take the right direction, she had strong
fdence in the dstinctness of their views, but most
Of all in the goodness of the Deity.
Raoul" she whispered, "God is there, as he
is with US, on this rock. His spiritis everywhere.
Bless him bless him in thy soul, my beloved,
aud be for ever happy"
RnUul ANSWERED. no.. LIS idOC wac uPIuiHSu,
and his eve still remained riveted on that particu-
lar star. Ghita would not disturb him, but taking
bis hand in hers, she once more knelt, and re-
sumed her prayers. Minute passed after minute,
and neither seemed disposed to speak AT length
Ghita became woman again, and bethought her OF
ser patients bodily wants. 1t was time TO ad-
minister the liquids of the surgeon, and she al.
vanced to hold them TO his lips The eye was still
fastened on the star, but the lips did not meet her
with the customary smile of love. They were
compressed, as when the body was about to min
lie in the strife Of battle, sort OF stern resou-
tion being settled on them. Raou Ward was
dead. zsezSas
The discovery of thettruth was fearful moment
TO Ghta. Not living being near her had the
consciousness of her situation all being bound liz
The sleep of the weary. The first feeling was that
which belonged to her sex. She threw herself on
the body AID embraced 1t wildly giving way to
those pent-up emotions, which her lover, In MS
moody humors, was wont to accuse her OF not pos
sessipe. She kissed the forehead, the cheeks, the
pallid, stern lips Of the dead; and, tor time,
there was the danger that her own spirit might
pass away in the paroxysm OF her greet. but, 1t
was morally impossible for Ghta to remain long
under the influence of despair. Her gentle spirit
had communed too long and too closely with her
Heavenly Father. not TO resort to his support in
al the critical moments of life. She prayed, tol
the tenth time that mig ht, and arose from hel
knees calm, if not absolutely resigned.
The situation of Ghita now as wildly PIC
turesque as it was moving to her lnnost spirit
All around her still sept, and that to the eye, as
profoundly as he who was only TO rise again, wnen
the sea and the land gave up their dead ne ex,
element and cxertions of the past day produced
their reaction, and seldom did sleep exercise a
more profound influence. The fire was still burn
ing bright, on the iset of the gg-men, casting Its
rays fairly atwhart the ruins the different sleePers
in them, and the immoveable body OF the dead.
! At moments, gusts of the Tramontana, which was
now blowing fresh, descended SO low as to fan the
flames. when the glare that succeeded seemed to
give startling reality to all that surrounded the
! place.
Still, the girl was too highly sustained, to be
moved with ANYTHING but her loss, and restless IN
| ouie,ude for the departed spirit. She saw that
even her uncle slept, leaving her truly alone with
Raoul. Once feeling of desertion came over her,
| and she was inclined TO some OF the sleep
ers She did approach the spot where the surgeon
| Law, and her hand was raised 20 stir him, when a
flash of light shot atwhart the pallid countenance
of Raoul and she perceived that his eyes were sill!
open. Drawing near, she bent the body, gaz-
ing long and wistfully into those windows OF the
soul, that had SO often beamed on her in manly
tenderness, and she felt, like miser with his
boarded gold, unwilling share it with any other.
Throughout the livelons night did Ghita watch
by the body of her well-beloved, now hanging over
it with tenderness no change could ex,inguish,
now bosieging heaven with her prayers. Not one
awoke, to interfere with the strange happiness she
felt in those pious Offices, to wound her sensi-
bilties By the surprise or the of the vulgar
Ere the day came, she closed the eyes of Raoul