The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-05-25

Inc Instance. In proportion as Ernest at
vanCed hir heart beat with an increasing
quckness. Finally he arrives-he passes
before the door of the house which his
sweetheart occupies-he was unable to
subdue the Impotence that he exper.en-
ced to see her again; he aights from his
horse,-he enters-no one in the court
he traverses it, he opens door, the apart
n.ent is empty-he goes to a second, he
opens it. Great God! What spectacle
strikes his view? A coffin! The parents
of Julia, undone, shedding torrents of
tears.-At this sight despair suddenly
seIzed Ernest. "n here is my beloved2"
cried he with horror. He received no
response but sobs-he totters, and falls
nsensible upon the floor.
Ernest remained long time in this
state OF annihlIalion. When he came to
himself again, he found himself upon his
bed;-his father, fright and awe painted
on his vsage, was near him; one of the
hands Of his unhappy son rested in his;
his looks were fixed upon the couch of
sick; attentive he watched his least move
ments; at the sigh which escaped from
the bosom Of Ernest, he cried out, and
raising his eyes drowned in tears toward
heaven,
Lord" cried he, with kind of en-
thusiasm, swift thou hear favourably the
wishes of father. Shall my son be
given back TO me?''
These words, this sight of father in
IN tha IF
ror whereof he had been a witness. Tie
desired to speak; his tongue at first could
not artlculale a single W ord; he made new
efforts, and in ii stltled voice, but with
terrible expression, he demanded to know
the whole extent, all the details Of his
sist him, the wandering was in his eyes,
the threat in his mouth; he arose furious
ly upon his couch. To refuse his de-
mand, was to endanger his life. lie learn
ed then of his father, that the first vigil of
his return from Amiens, Julia and her
sister, returning in the evening from the
vigil traversed, as usual, the CEN ,lery, TO
return 10 their home; that arrived near
Calvary, they heard sorrowlul voice,
which went out as from under ground,
and which directed them TO stop. Cecl-
liza, trembling with fear, wished to fly,
and to drag her sister with her; but Julia
reslsted;- second time the voice made
itself heard; Julia stopped; and Cecilia,
without her even, ran home filled with
trouble and alarm. They questioned her,
they ran to the cemetery, and found the
unhappy Julia in pit, her garments on
fire, and she half sullocated by the vapour.
She had not entirely lost he use of her
senses. They know of her that this ter
rble voice was that OF a man, that some
others had wrapped in winding-sheel;
tha, Immediately after the flight of Cecil
liza. he was rolled upon her passage, had
barred the path to her. had commanded
her to rim the funeral cloth: that she had
ACCOMPLISHED this order. ina, then she
had determined to av. bu, tina, two vig-
orous arms had seized, had drapsed her
tina, the ground was all at once whelmed
under her feet. and that she fell into q nil
whence issued sulpkureous smell ac'
companied with explosion and flames.
Julia had preserved enough of strength
to recount these details. but the emotion
that she had exnerenced had been foo
strong for her; once out of the graveyard.
she became Unconscious. delIrious. and
the next dav she no longer existed.
1t was with transports of rage that Err
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