The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-12-08

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posed to marry Carlotta than she had
been to marry Giovanni. Old Boboli, by
way of separating him from his daughter
had contrived to get sent to Paris; and by
his interest there, had managed to place
him in some situation about the court,
were the young man soon found his heart
assailed by the charms of the fair Madem-
oiselle Coralie de la Riviere, who showed
herself not insensible to his admiration,
and whom he loved with all the intensity
that belonged to his nation, and to his pc
culiarly ardent character.
His brothers letter, therefore, was a
coup de .foudre;t the fortune had no charm
for him without Coralie and besides,
with that instinct that sometimes to guide
our loves and our hates, from the very
first interview he had with Carlotta, he
had taken the aversion to her. However
he opened his fathers summons to return
Immediately to the Abruzzi, where stood,
frowning amongst the mountain, the old
castle of Z--; but with firm deter
mination to refuse the hand of Carlotta,
in spite of every means that should be
used to influence him. But when people
make these resolves, they should care to
keep themselves out of the reach of eve
rybody where interest it is to induce them
to break them. We are apt to think res
olutions much less brittle things than they
are, till they have been tried in the fur
mace. Although Alassandro from the
first had boldly declared that nothing
should persuade him to marry woman
whom he had always hated, and whom he
now hated infnitely ly more, since she had
been the cause of his brothers cruel
death, his fathers pertinacity did not
give way an inch. While his aversion
by no means diminish, his resolutions
gradually give way before the old mans
frmness on the one hand, tears and en-
treaties on the other, and his own horror
at the idea of his ancient house and all its
ancestral honors sinking into utter penury
and hopeless obscurity, when it was in
his power, by marrying the heiress, to res
tore it to all its original splendor.
Whether, at this time, any forefalling
shadow of the future had passed before
his eyes-whether the idea that he might
wed Carlotta, secure the fortune, and
then find means to be again free man,
had ever presented itself to his mind
whether he had allowed it to dwell there
whether he had given it welcome
hugged it, cherished it, resolved on it
can never be known; but certain it is,
that he suddenly changed his mind, avow-
himself prepared to obey his fathers
commands, and ready to lead the daugh-
ter of Boboli to the altar. The period
for the wedding was then fixed; but he
declared his determination of spending
the interval at Paris, where, he said, the
duties of his Office called him.
When the time arrived that he should
have returned, he wrote an excuse, alleg-
ing that he was still detained by business
and this he continued to do, week after
week, till the period appointed for the
wedding was close at hand. At length,
on the evening before that fixed for the
ceremony, he reached home He had
travelled, he said, with the greatest speed,
having only been able to obtain certain
number of days leave; and added that
the very moment the marriage was solem-
nized, the bride must be ready to step into
his travelling carriage, and accompany
him back to Paris. Carlotta, who with
her father and other members of both
families, was waiting for him at the Castle
Z, made no objection to this arrange
ment
She must have been aware that he did
not marry her from choice; but the a.
mount of his aversion, or that he had an
other attachment, she did not appear to
have suspected. She probably imagined
that the wealth and Importance he was
attaining by her means, and the compli-
ment she had paid him by her decided
were sufficient to expiate the wrong she
had done his brother; and trusted to her
beauty and her love to accomplish the
rest.
The evening was passed in the society
assembled at the castle; and it was after
ward remembered that, after the first salu-
tation, he had never been seen to address
her. On the following morning, there
was great deal of business to be trans
acted, many arrangements to be made, and
he was fully occupied till night; when, at
the hour appointed, he and his friends en-
tered the chapel at one door, whilst the
bride and her party advanced by the other,
The ceremony was performed-Carlotta
was his welded wife-after which the
whole party withdrew to the saloon and
supped; and then, ere the repast was all
over, Alessandro's servant having an
nounced that the carriage was at the door,