Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-03-30

runasetee, the dark-browed king of Mozam-
bique had reared his royal palace-a spot which
Heaven and Earth, wealth and taste, nature, aye,
and art too had combined to make lovely. For
many century had his ancestors sat upon the
throne of that kingdom, and the blood of hun
dred emperors was coursing through the veins oil
the majestic warrior who now swayed the scep-
tire in the home of his fathers.
Long years before he had been welded to the
vonl daughter of a Portuguese merchant, who
traded upon his coast, and the 6erceness of his
temper, and the harshness of his manner had be-
come so soltened by The winning melody of no.
MANS tones, that not subject was there in all
his kingdom, that would not willingly have sac
rihced his own life to save that ofthe emperor
And the wifc?-She was beautiful creature
with her dark, dreamy eyes full Of strange, sub
dued light and the crimson on her cheek as rich
and delicate as the heart of an opening rose
bud Many ducal coronet had been placed at
her disposal in her Gown native land" but her
crafty father had his eye upon the gttering
treasures Of the Afric king and when he with a
band of followers made themselves homes in that
sunny cline, it is not strange that he sacrificed
his daughter on the altar of ambition, for Saru-
nasetee was the most wealthy chieftan in all
that country, and Isabelle was fit to wear dia-
dem and queen it, and the covetous sire cOmmoR-
ded her to become the bride Of the powerful en-
peror So glorious was she in her beauty-so
gentle in her manners, that though the match
between himself and her avaricious father bad
been of policy and cold calculation his proud
tongue soon learned the language of affection
from one so well qualified to teach it, and for
her sake, and that of his child, his adored Leet-
tez, he had procured every luxury which wealth
could command, to deck their regal home
Twas mid group of towering trees the tall
palnl-the delicate mimosa, and the fruit-bear-
ing date; the citron too-the almond and the
hroad-leaved fig, while from the turf shot up
wards in wild luXurance the bright-hued tulip,
the pure, white chalice of the graceful lily, the
hyacinth and the accasia.
Beautiful birds-the gaudy parrot and the SUI
perb crecper with glossy, arching neck, and
glancing eyes coqueted gaily with the long, shi-
ming wreaths, dropping from the trees, or perch
ed upon the summit of some waving bush, sway
ed to and fro as if themselves the lords of that
world of blossoms.
The turrets of the castle, overlaid with ivory
and tipped with pure gold, doomed proudly up
from the thick shrubbery, and the clear fountain
yelling up the court yard threw its bright water
drops on many curously wrought ornament Of
gold. silver and marble, for the treasures of many
a land, powerful and more enlightend than his
own, had been brought to adorn the princely
mansion of Sarunasetee. The spacious halls
winding passages; and May stair-cases were ra-
diant with gold and Jewels too, so smooth
and mirror-like that many a compacent smile
beamed upon the faces of the maidens of the
court as they beheld the reflection of their own
he forms tic rloeey vurf,ca rom
more precious than those priceless Jewels, more
priced than gold or ivory, was within those king
" halls-Lelettez, the daughter of Sarunasetee
the only child of that proud king
She was of matchless loveliness-talI, queen.
ly; with large flashing eyes, and spirit uncon
querable in its wild haughtiness And her sirt
loved her, Oh! how fondly. with deep, almos
doatrous affection, such as only an unfetteret
heart can know; with proud disinterested love
proud because of her rare beauty, and Taught,
bearing, which bespoke her noble lineage; dis
interested for the exhaasless tenderness of he
being. She was his only hope--the "earth-star'
beaming with its sacred light through the storm
clouded sky of his existence, and pleasant smi
wreathed his compressed lips when she hitteC
about his regal throne, or trod the giddy maze
of the festive dance to the wild muisc CT the cas-
tanet. And at night-fall when the sound of rev
elry was hushed, he loved to sit beneath COCO
tree, and listen to the 6tful music of some rud
instrument as she sang the gay songs of he
country. Still more proudly did he look upo
her. when swiftly as the antelope she skipped c
yer the beetling cliffs, or, mounted on her swift
footed courscr sped like spirit of inspiration
across the plain.
The subjects of her father regarded her wit
reverential love, almost amounting to adori
ton, and when on gala days she came FORTH a
tired in royal robes, they instnctively bent tn
knee as she passed, and did her homage
Twas sunset-and the palace of Sarunasete
was radiant with its gorgeous magnifcence, a
the departing sun threw food of golden ligf
athwart its cleaning towers.
Beneath brilliant canopy, in the shadow {
tall PALM reclined the Princess Leettez. lie
flashing eyes gowed with a light more intens
than usual, and a rich crimson mantled her div
cheek, as she gazed earnestly upon the dar
forms around her. Amid her curling locks ";
twined a profusion Of odorous blossoms, a
bright with the richness of that sunny cline, il
terwoven with the sparkling topaz, the wn
coored ruby and the ccrulean-hued sapphire
Her superb form was enyeloped in a mantle
many colored feathers her symmetrical arms Ell
circled with bracelets of solid gold, while til
tiny foot visible upon the green-sward, nestle
in slipper, which Cinderella might have ell
Wed.
Her whole appearance indicated taste as we
as wealth, for her mother had presided at hi
toilet, and that mother in her early days ha
been gavest and most beautiful in the fashion
BILE circles of merry Portugal. Isabelle love
her child deeply, nay, passionately, but with
strange, underlined feeling of fear lest the eye
the white man should mark her for his prey Y
as she gazed upon her on that gala day, a fee
ing of pride shot through her heart, for love
she was, and noble, On! how gentle, in the gil
joyousness of her youth.
The last rays of the sun stole through Il
"feathry palm trees, shedding their mellow Zig
upon her person. The petals of the flower
golden hued crimson and stainless white, wi
the costly gems, wreathed in her thick reese
cleaned, and sparkled, and wavered as the 81
breeze kissed them, till the whole seemed bath
in "the Iris of heaven" Upon the nader
c,oo .ostod IN ovnreSsion of content and ham