Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-07-17
Shisrellanp.
Translated from the French Of Octave Feuillet}
THE BEAUTIFUL ANDALUSTAN.
Ok LOVE BEYOND THE TOMB.

"Will you love me even beyond the
tombl"
The question came from the vermi.I-
ion lips OF young girl at a fancy ball in
Paris, during the reign of Louis Nv
She was a brilliant brunette, with abun-
dant raven hair, and wore The Spanish
veil and mantllla, which she mad assum-
ed for the occasion, Wllh all the grace of
a daughter of Andalusia. Her lnterlo-
cutor, d young Niscount of twenty, ar
rayed as page of Mary Stuart, IN
Scotch pIaid and Highland bonnet I'D
feather, had been pursuing The far IN
known all the evening with prolestatious
Of love and eternal fidelity. His answer
was prompt and unhesitaung.
Yes, | swear it. If die will dream
of you IN the sepulchre. and a thrill of
10Y will welcome YOU if your foot but
press the grass above my head"
"Aud if | should deg enquired the
young girl, IN a sad tone.
IF you should die, | viii be as faih-
ful TO YOU dead as living, and if you
shonld be permitted TO visit me, | VIII
kiss your cold hand with as much love as
al this moment nt'-and he pressed to his
/ lips the liule white hand of the beautiful
/ Spaniard.
'.Ah, well! permit you, then, 10 love
me. We shall see if you will be con-
slant Farewell; we shall meet again.
/ "But when!" demanded the
/ Viscount, anXiousiy.
Il cannot tell-perhaps here perhaps
! elsewhere-but you shall see me-" Aud
( with a GESTURE which forbade him 10 fol-
! low, she disappeared IN the crowd.
/ Two years passed, during which Wis
count Ralph sought vainly at Marty, at
I Narsailes-in every place OF public re-
I sort-for his beautiful unknown. He
was Scolchman by birth, and like many
! of his countrymen, had entered the SER
wee Of the KING of France. But q court
/ lie did not comport very well with his
slender fortune and he became, ere long
/ deeply involved in debt.
You must find some rich heiress,'
said his sympathlsing frendS-it was the
/ resource OF all embarrassed gentlemen Of
I that day. But the Niscounl had not for
gotten the bewitching Andalusian, and
was in no mood for The search. He was
/ spared the trouble, however. His uncle
I who was Archbishop in partl5uS of an
\ Assyrian city destroyed by the Romans,
informed him, one day, that il was time
/ for him TO marry, and that he had found
\ a wife for him.
rs she rich!" inquired Ralph Il DO
not ask If she IS pretty-it IS all the same
TO me-
Very rich and very pretty"
The NiScouut thought of his unknown
apa sighed; then thought of his creditors,
/ and consented. The uncle arranged ev-
ervtbinr. and when all was settled he
gave his nephew his benediclion and TWO
/ hundred pistoIes, and sent him of to Bur-
gundy to pay his respects to Mile. de
Roche Nolre, whom he was TO marry in
a fortnight.
A gloomy journey of several days du-
ration brought him at length to the an
Client feudai manor-house Of Roche Noire
situated in the heart of the forest, on a
lofty rock, from which It derived It's
name. He was exPec. ed. The grand
door of the mansion was open, and an
aged servant met him al the threshold
and conducted him 10 a large hall; at the
extremely Of which set an old man and q
young girI. The former. whom he d.
yined at once TO be the Baron of Roche
Noire. rose at his entrance, and, salulng
him in the somewhat formal fashion OF
the day. present hIn to his daughter Her
mine. The latter had the delicate beau
IL Of the flower viii n las unfolded un-
der a Northern sun. She was pale, with
fair hair, and eyes of the deep blue OF
al Italian sky. Her figure was slight
but graceful, her hands exquisitely shap-
ed, and transparent as aIabaster. So
much the Niscount saw as he bent low
before his hetrothed, and in spite of his
professed indifference. he inwardly con-
graduated himself on his good fortune
The Niscount and Baron exchanged
the usual reciprocal compliments and in
quiries; Ralph was accustomed 10 socie-
", and understood we'll the ART of max
ing himself agreeable; the Baron, spite
OF his seventy winters, had not forgv.;er
how TO be a courier, and Hermine had
the simple grace, the dignity, the mod
esty without prudery. Of young girl Of
high birth, religious.y educated. bu. with
out any rigidity. The conversation sooE
became animated and sparkling. while
Ralph watched Hermine, ana ROW and