Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-12-23
A SlClLIAN ANECDOTE
HISTORY OF rHE sioNoRA cRozzA III MoRTo. =
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HISTORY OF THE sicNoRA cRozzA III MoRTo. =
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whimsical and singular circumstance hap
pened IN Palermo, casting in the shade the
budget, the anstocmcy and the press. For a
sennight the people spoke about the Sipnora
Cro@hi dl Morto. She is lady of twelve year
OF age her person beautiful and well made,
as. soft as the sireriNa ,he has genius and ac
comphshmcnt. She PLAYS on the piano forte
lJlSe the celebrated DE Meyer, sings like Miss
Deicy, and dances like Mademciselle Augusta:
her rent roll is 100000 per year and good
heart. But by an i'll chance it was related.
twenty years since her mother saw the phan-
'ashaSona, and was strongly struck by the APP
peamnce OF horrible spectre, and after eight
months delivered OF u girl, who would have
Deeh beautiful as an angel, il she had not been
born with skeleton hand, and face like a
skull. This amiable lady is lnarriagca bic, and
several gentlemen OF small fortune have tried
their fortunes for her. but they have been sub
lected to a trial. The Venus with her face
IKE SKULL receives at home all her lovers;
her lace Is covered with a mask and veil: she
sings, dances, enchants. transports, and when
her ecstasy is at its height, she laws aside her
ionable lovers coungeously suffered this hor-
rIable spectacle without fear; but that charm
ing and beautiful woman in taking off her mask
mas rcpulsed every one. Several soldiers who
dehed death hundred times, have retrcated
knowing her the first time; some intrepid men
can resist no less in spite of the three hundred
thousand dollars of her income; and even that
corpse head has been free for some time.
At last the lady met noble lover of her
heart, who declared his passion TO her. The
spinster showed to him the several obstacles,
saying that certainly he would be frightened at
/ her lace, the sight of which he cannot survive.
/ But he answered that he loved her heart aud
not her shape. In word the handsome lady
consented TO the bridal, but with the condition
! that she should show her face when he became
/ her husband. So that all was arranged the
marriage contract subscribed, and the husba nd
Is insured one hundred thousand dollars pc,
year, notwithstanding his wish TO the contra.
! y. Whenever you, said the young lady, will
no longer have the courage To suffer me to be
your wife, shall have in DYING, comfort in
having made happy with riches the man low,
and yet hc will she'd some tears to my mem
DRY. lie nuptial day arrived. The parties
come back from the church. The husband
kneels before his wife and she puts her hand
upon the fatal mask. What a moment foI
The trembling husband! but his heart pants nc
more, he becomes pale, the mask falls, the
husband looks and sees an angelic face smil
ing upon hint "My dear" said the beauti
iul and charming wife, embracing her stupiii
ed husband, my feigned uglincss did not
seem TO thee dreadful, thou considerest only
my heart, and thou art loved by beauty"
This entertaining history of Signora Croza
iii Morto now has moved the genius of all the
great Slcllian authors; it is also am argument
OF the celebrated poets OF the large Italian the
atries.
SALVATORE ABBATE MIGLoRE.