Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-05-02
] CO r A LIN n.
A TALE OF LOVE AND HERoIsM
CHAPTER Wills
c o n c l. U D i D.

CHAPTER .vIll.
Success demands
That we be well prepared ere we attempt
To rescue Eyerington Meanwhile retire.
Ard sound the opinion Of our friends,
"A nd mediate what way, with safety fraught,
w best may take to escape The tyrants chains
William Tell
He thought, too, of home, country and
friends. from whom be Ras now finally 10
be separated; nor in that ifeaffuif n,s',.neht
was the beautiful Coralinn forgotten. Her
love, her mistaken constancy and truth,
we're remembered -and the rush OF memo.
ry as he called up past joys, youthful Wis
ions Of bliss, and the day dreams OF happi.
ness was so painful, that he felt kind #
delirious recollection Of the present, and
looked on the preparations with an apathy
that bordered on insensbility. All these
ftful imaginalions were instantly dtsPelled
by the stern mandate Of the chief, " no or
dered the attendant to strip Everington Of
bis outer garments command which
was at once sbeyed. After he had been
pinioned, with q presence and 6rmness of
mind which drew murlnurs Of applause
from those who had, but few moments be-
fore, been SO ready to curse the intiiel dog,
and exult in the prospect OF his approach
ing punishment. Everington laid himself
down in the position assigned him, and was
instantly and immovably secured.
Men do not instinctiyly delight in the
misery of their fellow creatures; and a dis
position 10 favor him was manifested by
those who were compelled to become Ev-
Nha prinp bnH nof
expressly required the extremity of torture
and his eyes-we therefore suffered to re-
main undisturbed; but the usual quantity OF
milk and honey had been prepared: and
before day had passed, the swarms Of
wasps aud ants by which he was surroun-
ded, gave him dreadful foretaste of what
he was yet to suffer. Fully aware Of the
effect oil ea,ing,in aggrayatiDg and proiong-
ing his torments, he determined TO refuse
nj every hoard; but before the third day.
hunger overcame his resolution, and he
partook of,he food offered with the voraci'
~ OF n starving man. s..- ..-e,..r
Te Eyerngton, each Of these days
seemed an age, and the nights appeared as
il they would never end. Sleep would, in
spite Of his suferings, overcome him some
times; but then he,i possible, suffered more
than. when awake. Images the mos,
frightful continually haunted, him and while
hope sometimes mingled her anodyne with
bis cup Of misery, when sleeping, imagina.
ton rejected the proffered boon, and sewee
up the remembrance of the past and the
present, with anticipations Of the future
in unmixed bitterness.
II was on the night of the third day, as
he lay wishing for death, in state of hal
delirium, that he was reused by q sof;
swee, voice, WHISPERED in his ear-"Ever
ington." ea5 s@ -.
Il was the voice of Coralinn, and tn,
tide of feelings which her appearance Their
produced was beyond his control. Tru
he could not see her--the sun had blistere'
his face, his eyelids were it appeared t.
him, burning to a crisp, and ability to NOV
them had ceased; still he could not nistak
Of her angel voice, he felt her soft ham
as she parted the hair on his forehead, an
pressed it with her coral lips, and the tear
shed fell on his face, grateful as the drop
Of dew which the breath Of morning shed
from the bright petals Of the rose upon tn
sunbnrnt earth.
With lips parched by thirst, he coult
with dif6cultyiarticulate, but she listened
andsheard his faint accents employed in ex
pressions Of gratitude and thanks.
Il shall die, my dear Coralinn, mus
die" said Everington; "but the remem
brance Of your affection and love will chee
and console me to the last; and though W.
were born to different faiths, yet we shall
meet In Heaven"