Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-01-16

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listen. ''''Rudolphus, beloved of IN,
soul" she said, in voice sweete
than the syrup Of New Orleans
thou knowest that I love thee
My heart clings to thee as; the bear
to its pole. Ny heart knows NJ
music save thy voice, and my lipi
no victuals except thy kisses
Without thee / famish, I die. Bu
the picket-fencc Of duty surround:
me. 1t is stuck full Of cruel spikes
and | cannot surmount it. 4 last
embrace, my heavenly one, and We
| part for ever" "-.,.
S'Bid me not depart!"' he roared
as he clasped her to his breast; Il
will never leayethee. Forty~'leven
savage locomotives have not the
power to tear us from each others
arms. | tell thee, mine angel love.
the thought Of leaving thee rends
my soul, maddens me; it makes
me ri and rave like a. frenzied
Shanghai it: makes me below like
9 bed bug; it makes me feel badI!
In my desperation, [ would tear u p
creation,by the roots I would fog
the earthquakel / would eat red
hot -pokers I would drink up7the
ocean, and then cast myself into the
black and surging billows which
roll at my feet" od.7 .as y:
i Seraphina burst into a flood of
tears. Their excessive emotion
overcarne them, and they swooned
away ... .
Again it was evening upon Rock
Greek again the cold moon looked
down upon q scene Of excrueiating
woe. In q dark, dismal, damp,
gloomy, ghostly castle, built Of. the
unhewn monarchs Of the forest,
upon a pile Of hay, lay the angelic.
Seraphina, the victim Of her ia
theirs tyranny. Her linsey-woolsey
robes were torn and disarranged,
her cornban eyes as red as cranber-
ries, and swelled with weeping;
but for all this she looked more
beautiful than ever. BY her side
stood a hagon Of calculated butter
milk and a platter Of fap;jacks.
mo, no" she. family muttered,
pushing the food away; g let them
not; seek to prolong my misery by
ne tempting viands. I will
never, eat more-never." ,.:
Il. Just, then q. low, .doleful sound
WAS borne to her ear. She started.
:: Was it thou, Kudolphus p she
cried. S'Ah, no, / will not flatter
myself with, vain hopes. Twas but
the calf bleating to: its mother. y -.
And she sank down exhausted
upon the straw again, to court
death. p ..::- !. -. . -
Again was the sound repeated.
She sprang to her feet, and peeped
out through chink in tue logs.
1t was, indeed, her lover, looking
up with wistful eyes to her dun
geon window, while manly tears
down his cheeks.
30, save me, Rudolphus," she
screached. -.
>sI would smash down these mas
sive pine doors, " he answered,
with one blow Of my stalwart fist,
and snatch thee from thy cruel
saptors, but I am afraid thy fathers
larnod oxen will hook me-" And
le sank upon the ground in the i'm
ootence Of his rage and despair,
ind, hiding bis face in the burdock
caves, sgroaned aloud. :tt.E.sys,
Weep not, my. Rudolphus, 'i',said
'he.. i will come to thee" lt-a,. 4
So saying, the heroic girl descen-
led to the STABLE, and while the:
ynatsr and mosquitoes thundered
lbout her fair head, tearing up with
ler tiny hands an oaken plank from
he. floor, she soon emerged into the:
;ow-yard. In an instant the lovers
y'eerle clasped into each others arms:
Che donkey Of Rudolphus stood
lear, and folding his lovely burden
Q his breast, the youth sprang into
he saddle, and murmuring in her
,ar sweet tales of love In a foreig On
:lirnej they. gallopedy away like a
treak Of CREASED Lightning /
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