Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-05-27

blance to humanity, Lilias seemed to cling
to life with wonderful tenacity, and the
physician reiterated his opinion that care
alone was necessary to restore her 10 com
parative health.
"She will never walk again." poor thing
said he, gravely, "and she will scarcely be
able TO recover the use Of her hands; her
features, too, must always be terribly dis
torted, and / doubt whether her eyesight
will be fully restored-but no vital function
is seriously injured and she may yet live
many years"
That very night, or rather at dawn Of
the following day, Lilias was found stark
and stiff in death, while the old woman,
whose business it was to watch the sufferer,
lay in deep sleep on the floor beside her.
The physician seemed thunderstruck when
he beheld the liielcss body of her whom
he had left but a few hours before in com.
paratiye safety, but he could not take it
upon himself to assert that some sudden
change had not occurred, some rapid and
violent attack Of disease whose symptoms
were unmarked, and the general disorgani-
cation of her whole frame. In consequence
of her disfgured appearance, her body
was not allowed to lie in that state, although
a pompous funeral graced the once beauti-
full Countess of Moreland. The Earl wore
the semblance of decent sorrow-the lady
Rosamond assumed the dusky habiiments
of wo-and yet, it was obsery ed, that the
old watcher whose careiessncss had in all
probability shortened the days Of the I'm.
happy countess was taken into the house
hold, and honored with the confidence Of
the lady of Folkstone.
Three months had scarcely elapsed, after
the frightful events just narrated, when a
marriage was solemnizcd secretly and by
torch-light, in the chapel at Folkstone. The
bride was the beautiful Rosamond, and her
voice rang out through the dark aisles of
the lonely church with almost unnatural
clearness as she uttered the solemn re-
sponses. But the tones of the bridegroom
were hollow and low, and his frame quiv.
cred with strong emotion, for his weak and
timid nature shrunk from the thought Of
that which he had done, and that which he
was now doing. He had yielded to the
holder wickedness of the woman at his
side, but he was appalled, by the shadow:
which conscience called up before his be.
widered sight. Rosamond was revenged
alike upon the sister who had wrongcd
and the bastard lover who had wavered
when decision would have afforded happi.
ness to both. Lilias was laid in an union.
orcd grave, Herbert Bellenden was her
welded husband, and the long cherished
bitterness of her hayward heart had al
last poured out its venom, and was relieved
Did she not fear the anger of an aveng'
ing Providence? Did she not know that
retributiyc Justice, sooner or later, mus
overtake the guilty. She was allowed
just time enough TO learn that the husband
for whom she had perilled her soul wa:
rendered utterly contemplate by his vacil-
Iating character, and his low vices--ano
then the hour of reckoning came. A child
was born to the earldom Of Moreland-f
son TO inherit the name and honors Of ar
ancient race--but a cry Of inexpTessble
horror from all who looked upon him wa:
his only welcome to a world Of suffering
The stamp of mothers evil passions wa
upon the innocent babc--his married ant
crippled limbs, his teariully distorted face
bore the awful sembance Of the unhappy
dead. II was the face of the buried LiIias
For twenty years Rosamond was man
acled and bound like wild beast, ChaineC
to the wall of her own apartment, an OBJ
ect of terror and pity TO all who ookes
upon her raving madness, or listened t.
the wild bowling Of her insanity. The
child, helpless cripple, idiot, outived it
miserable parents, and by its death in IT,
the line of two of England's noblest fami
lies became extinct, while the estates fell Il
distant collateral heirs,
Such was the real history of those fai
children whose pictured semblancc had 5
fascinated my gaze in that lonely chamber
such were the fortunes of those Cor WHOM
| had fancied a destiny of innocent happj
= ness.
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