The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-02-28
VOL. 6.-NO. 81.

recoiled, as though supernatural appear
ance had presented itself. while, with
tone that thrilled through hear. and brain
she exclaimed
"Alon 20, can yon forgive ne, 1t was
Viola! "Can you forgive me, for all the
deception have praciised, and caused
| others to practice? May the prize | s;rove
for-my husbands hear,-plead my ex-
cuse! | know it willi' t
While she spoke, Alonzo in some de-
gree recovered himself He raised up The
beautiful suppliant, and folding her in 81
lence to his breast, kissed her with pure.
intense, and devoted affection. He could
not speak; he thought not, and cared not
how it had all been brough, about; he only
knew and felt that his wife was in his
arms, and that-fhat 1Uife ,oas plold.
Che party in drawing-room, to Thcn
the duenna was now added, were in all
agony of impatient expectation. The Mar
guess at length led The way. and they all
crept softly along the passage: MAY we
come ini'
"Come in!" said Alonzo; the frs; words
he Ind spoken since the denorenent.
Their entrance dispersed, in grca,
measure, the concentrated feelings Of
Alonzo, and he became attentive TO learn
the mechanism by wh :ch his present hap
piness had been ef, cite !. 1t appeared
that the prepossession Isabella had con-
ceivcd for her husband at the altar, had
produced striking change on her. as lore
did on Cymon. Ill health, the absence
/, of the usual means of education at ST.
PauPs, the ignorance and weak indui-
gence of those with whom she resided.
had allowed weeds to spring up aud choks
the rich treasures of her mind However.
she accompanied the Ma!quess from St.
Paul's, and was, placed by him under the
charge OF the Abhess, where, in thrss
years, her improvement in health, beauty.
and mental attainments astonished all
those who observed her. The two years
she passed in England, under the mos,
/ iudicious care. had brought her to that
! point of pc erfeciion to which she had now
arrived --
Alonzo had not the slightes, reelection
Of any of her features excep: her eyes.
which on the day Of their union had that
large SIG and troubled expression which
usually attend Ill health. He could now
account for the startling recollections ,ha,
had passed over him one evening At the
chess-board; the look she then gave, and
that with which she had impressed hiin
on her leaving the oratory, were the
same.
"And you, my grave and worthy to-
tor said \ AIonzo, addressing MI Nor
daunt, "did yoa join in this powerful
| league against me?
II confess replied MIR. Mordaun,.
"that | was in the service of the enemy
so much so that, on the evening you first
met Donna Viola, and were introduced 10
! her at the Opera, knew beforehand that
! such meeting and such an introduction
would take place. | take this oPporiu-
nifty, however, of limiting, that you may
! thank your own impetuosiy that the dis
covery was not premaiurely advanced on
board of the Lisbon packet; for Donna
Viola, terrified at your vehemence, would
! have revealed the whole truth, could she
! but have prevailed upon you to stay aud
! hear ii"
"Alas, for my vehemence!' exclaimed
! Alonzo; and trying to collect his puzzled
thoughts, he turned TO the Abbess. "And
you too, my dear aunt-you too, my Lady
a bless. it is we'll yon have the power OF
absolving yourself for all those little TBS
you told me the other day."
= "May Our Lady grant me absolution,"
replied the good Abbess. devoutly. "for
whatsoever stain of sin IN ly..h have contrac-
ted by playing a part in this masque!
"Supper, SUPPER cried out the Mar
guess, as he marshalled them the way.
Alonzo seized his Viola for thus he ever
after named her, as if he dreaded that
some magical delusIon would again snatch
her from his sIght)-and never dib a set
of happier creatures meet than thos
which now encireled the sumptunus ban
quet prepared in honor Of his Brazilian
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