Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-10-18

verse three or four crowded rooms before
they could reach the one where her LADY,
ship was seated at whist; they moved verv
slowly and loiteringly along, seemingly in
no great hurry to arrive at their destination.
Are you really going to leave us next
month, Don Alonzo p
Really and you, Dona Viola, what
becomes of you?'
Il go 10 Portugal
And there?' said Alonzo in an inouir-
ing tone.
80 there We shall not remain long our
Brazilian property will require our pres
ence.'
Then we shall meet again. said Alon-
20 eagerly.
Il hope SOL dare say, in few months. ,
Well, that is some comfort and he
seemed to respire more freely then after
pause but | shall never again meet
Tiolar
But Viola, Don Alonzo,' she replied
firmly, will meet you as she has always
met you; what she has been, she will
continue to be-your sincere and affection
ate FRIEND
Thank you, Viola, thank you but
pray do not speak another word to me
just now He placed her in her seat, and
without looking ct her, turned away and
left the house.
Mr.. Mordaunt had accepted the press
ing invitation of Alonzo to accompany him
to Brazil: their passage was taken and
their preparations well forward. Alonzo
paid his farewell visits, and did all that
was necessary on the occasion, with the
most perfect composure.
A passage was also taken by Viola and
her suite in the Lisbon Packet, and the
next day was fixed for her leaving town
for Falmouth. The day following was
decided on by Alonzo for the same pur-
pose, but this he managed to conceal from
her.
The morning before her departure, he
called on the Countess. You are come
to take leave of Donna Viola,' said her la
dyship.
mo, am not, am come to take leave
of you, (for am also on the eve of quit
ting London,) and TO thank you for all
your kind attention.
But why not of Viola p said the
Countess she will be 80 disappointed
1t is better should not.
But what am to say to herr inquired
she.
Precisely what have just said-that
1t is better | should not
The Countess returned no reply and
with all good wishes on each side, they
parted.
The weather was beautiful, and Mr..
Mordaunt appeared 10 enjoy his journey
exceedingly but Alonzo was absorbed in
thought, and it was only now and then,
when Mr.. Mordaunt touched upon his ap-
preaching meeting with his father and his
old Rio friends, that Alonzo could be
reused for moment AT the inns, too,
he occasionally heard something that at
tracted his silent attention, Of the beautiful
young foreigner who had passed the day
before
They arrived al Falmouth in The morn
ing to breakfast. With a beating heart,
Alonzo inquired concerning the foreign
lady and the Lisbon packet: the lady had
gone on board the evening before, and the
Lisbon and Rio packets were to sail early
on the following morning.
After breakfast, the two gentlemen were
engaged uperintending the embarkation of
their servants and baggage, and having
taken an early dinner, went on board.
Hwas aioveiy evening. Alonzo glanced
at the merry and busy town Of Falmouth,
the numerous vessels. and the broad At
lantc, which lay stretched out before him /:
then his eye fixed, as though there were
nothing else worth looking at, on the small
vessel that lay nearest to him. He sud-
| denly left his station, descended into a
boat and was in few minutes on board.
In the outer cabin he met the duenna,
who looked very much surprised at seeing
him but without speaking, threw open
the door of the after cabin: he entered,
and the door closed behind him.
Viola lay on couch, apparently alb
sorbed in reading the noise startled her,
and she looked up; but nothing can ex-
press the astonishment painted on her
countenance at the sight of Alonzo, who
stood as fixed statue before her. She
sprang from the couch, and evidently her
first feeling was to run towards him, but
probably the strangeness of his look and
demeanor arrested her; for she checked
herself, and exclaimed, Don Alonzo =
Viola = said he, seizing both her hands,
and gently forcing her to return to the seat
she had left: Viola = (the word seemed
TO choke him. | cannot live without you
you are yet free, have pity on me 7
Alonzo, she asked, in tremulous
voice, are yon free p sal
| am not irreUocably bound
| In moment she seemed TO recover her
self-possession, and replied, Then must
tell you, that am. You are laboring I'M
der fatal errors you think | am but en-.
gagged am married. But stay = she
exclaimed, alarmed at the effect of her