Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-12-02

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this far piece of the creation seem so lovely in my
| eyes, as now, when am about to quit it for the
last time"
Look beyond this scene into the long vista of
| eternity, son there thou viii behold that, which
| mocks ut all human, all earthly means TO equal
| fear that our time is hut short-hast thou aught
yet to say, in the flesh ?"
Let it be known, holy priest, that in my dying
moment prayed for Nelson and for all who have
been nctive in bringing me to this end. 1t is easy
| Tor the fortunate, and The attempted, to condemn;
| but he is WISER as he is saer who puts more re-
Iiance on the goodness of God than on his own
! merits"
| rny OF satisfaction cleaned alhwart the pae
counennnce OF the prest-a sincerely pous mnn,
| or fear ct personal consequences might have kept
| HIM aluol from such scene and he closed his
eyes while he expressed his gratitude to God in
the secret rcccsses Of his own spirit Then he
turned to the Prince and spoke checringly.
"Son, he said, "ii thou quittest lite with n
! due dependence OH The Son of God, and in this
temper toward Thy fellow creatures, Of all this liv-
ing ilirong iho'l nrl he who is most he cuviod
| Address thy soul in prayer, once more, to Him
! whom thou feelest alone can serve thee"
| Carncc"li aided b" the priest. knc!t on the scat
| fold; for the rope lung loose enough to permit
that act Of humiliation, and The Ither bent ut his
| side.
:" wish 10 God Nel.on had nothing to do with
| thiS!' muticred Culiee, ~ he TUNED away his face
utullg MS eN Is on lllt OttrONaUl
nearly under the stern of which ship his gig lay.
| There, IN Me sernwniH, stood the lady, already
! mentioned IN this chnpler, n keen spectator of the
| awful scene. No one but maid was near hur,
! however, the men Of her companionship not being
! OF moods stern enough TO be al her side. Culiee
! turned away from this sight in still stronger dis
| gust; and Just ut that moment common cry
| arose from the hon's. Looking round, he was
| lus III time 10 sec the unfortunate CGraccol drag
! sed from his knees Ivy the neck until he rose, by
steady man oi-war pull, to the end of the yard !;
! leaving his compnnion alone the scaffold still
I lost in prayer, There horrible minute, OF
The slrngSies between life aud death, when the
body, 50 late the tenement Of an immortal spirit,
hung, like one OF tho jewel-hiocks of the ship,
dangling pns4lYcly at the eud of the spar, as in
sensible ms the WOO! which sustained II.
long summers evening did the body of Fran
cosco Chrnccloi hang suspended at the yard.arm
OF ne Minerva; areYOlling spectacle TO his c)un-
rymcn and TO most o the strangers who had been
Witnesses of his end. Then was il lowered into
a boat, its feet loaded with double-headed shot,
and II was carried ont league or more into the
bay, and cast into the sea. The revolving manner
! IN which It rose t" the surface aud confronted lis
desroyers fortnight AFTER has passed into history
and to this day forms one of the marvels related
ny the ignorant and wonder-oving of that region
LOVE AND DEATH.
An hour passed. all on, or near the rock sleep.
ing, overcome by fatigue, but Ghta aud the dying
man.
"That star haunts me, Gha - Raoul at length
multered. " lfit he really world, some a.l-pow-
ertni hand must have created it. Chance never
made world, more than chance made n shin
Thought mind intelligence must have governed
at the formation of one, well as OF the other"
For months Ghltn had not known an instant rs
happy as that. 1t appeared if the mind of
Raoul were about TO exlrica,c itself from The
shallow philosophy SO much in fashion. and which
hnI hitbprtn de cd pn,u ind ina
lect ordinarily so clear Could his thoughts hut
once take the right direction, she had strong con-
fidence in the distinctness Of their views but most
of all in the goodness oftitn Deity.
-" Raou," she whisper. God IS there rs he
is with us, on this rock lis spirit is everywhere.
Bless him bless him III thy soul, my beloved,
and be forever happy!'
Raoul answered not His face was upturned,
and his eye still remained riveted on that particu-
lar star. Ghita would not disturb him, but taking
his hand in hers she once more knelt, and re-
sumed her prayers. Minnie passed after inmate,
and neither seemed disposed TO speak. At length
Gha became woman again, and bclhousht her of
her patients bodily wants. 1t was time to adj
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
gle in the strife of battle, sort OF stern resou
ton being settled on them. Raoul Ward was
dead.
The discovery or,hc truth was fearful moment
TO Ghta. Not n living being near her. and the
consciousness OF her situation; all being bound in
the sleep of the weary. The first feeling was that
! which belonged to her sex. She threw herself on
| the body, and embraced it wildly, giving way 10
those peul-up emotions, which her lover, in his
| moody hnmors, was wont 10 accuse her of not
| possessing She kissed the forehead, The cheeks,
| The palld, stern lips of the dead and, for time,
there was the danger that her own spirit might
| pass away in the parOXysm Of her gief But ii
was morally impossible for Ghita TO remain long
under the influence of despair. Her gentle spirit
had comnined too long and too closely with her
| H0avc1ly Father, not to resort TO his support in
all the critical moments of lie. She prayed, for
the lenh lime, that night, and arose from her
| knees calm, if not absolutely resigned.
The situation of Ghita was now rs wildly pic
| turesque rs 1t moving TO her Utmost spirit
| All around her still slept, and that, to the eye, as
profoundly as no who was only TO rise again when
! The sea and the land gave up their dead. The cx.
element and eXcrlions OF the past day produced
| their reaction, aud seldom did sleep exercise a
more profound influence. The fire WINS still burn
ing bright, Oh The islct of the gig men, casting its
rays fairly alhwHrl he ruins, the different sieepers
in them, and the mmoveabe body of the dead
| At moments, gusts Of HE Tramontana, which was
| now blowing fresh, descended so low rs to fan the
flames, when the glare that Succeeded seemed to
| give a startling reality TO all that surrounded the
! place.
Still, tho girl was too highly sustained, TO he
moved with any thing but her loss, and restless in
Quietud- for the departed spirit. She saw that
even her uncle slept, leaving her truly alone with
Raoul. Once feeling Of deseron came over her
and she was inclihed to arouse some Of the sleep
ers. She did approach the spo, where the surgeon
lay, aud her hand was raised to stir him, when II
Hash ct light shot athwart the pallid counienance
OF Raoul and she perceived that his eyes were still
open. Drawing NEAL she bent over the body, gaz
ing long and wsItulIy in,o those windows of the
soul, TINT had often beamed on her in manly
Tenderness aud she felt like a miser with his
boarded gold, unwilling TO share it with any 9th.
er.
Throughout the lvelong night did Gha watch
by the body finer well-beloved, now hanging over