The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-24

your footsteps, haunting you IKE shadow, and cling
around your heart insensby, for you must not feel
You have placed three thousand miles between u.s. ao-
pear before you again dare not, and though 70 touch
mus. be resisted faF your oSie f@ree 70 me- ike
opium TO the dervsh-the more dangerous u becomes
me more sweet. But viii Dc content with nan-to HOOK
Ony-and this viii repay me for my desoAie, lonely
hfe, ana exclusion from the sympathy Of those who
hye me- but qss coate must do Ii through forests
Ill follow, and where the hows-tnrougn dangers,
through whole iegions Of foes-wth no hope, no home
no refuge earth but that nirequited love. Per
haps you will reproach with expressing too much
what feel II would be quite consistent your com
planning Of my want Of magnetic Etraston when in the
Crimea al the risk OF being frozen death II is 70 no
purpose recaptuatng what secret instinct pointed out
mercys sake for PHYS sake; no. you were
mvuDnerable for whole fortnight You resisted the small
plaintiff voice. and you must recoect Carlo milo that
sad morning, forciby withdrawing your hand from
when my heart bursting with love and grief and the
touch Of that hand only strength through that
fearful trial. when with fell sweep, you tore down
the cherished dream Of my lifedid murmur my fate
whilst your love sustained me- but when you threaten
Carlo MIC, II is no use 10 be thinking Of ali
this; no use telling you; you know IT all, and would
bad should forgive you; for cannot be angry,
10 love for minute. But must try not 70 let you drive
me quite mad. must keep out Of your waynot that
cannot trust you that think the fraterna scheme
nfeasble. You have never given any proof of VIC
lent attraction, neither there in me beauty fascna
sceptca must own, upon that point; but do fear and
have a wholesome dread Of cold words and looks, OF
freezing Indifference besides being just possible that
would reproach me for having come ConIresez rous2
Qond I'm h0name a r1isonnn IL de sety
The truth Of the matter is am perfectly wreched body
and mind Whether is fatigue underwent last year
anxiety this, don't know-no tell what to do
with Doctor, canst thou minister to a mind dis
easedY am crazy for want OF sympathy. have
heard from either OF my sisters since you wrote to me-
and have not had the courage to tell them Of my weak
ons no s
what has become Of me- nor have they made any inquiry
refuse IT, Cod too must have abandoned me, never
could feel so utterly desolate. Semve te. TERESA.
Her last letter to him was written after her re-
covery at Bologne, and is as follows:--
DEAR CARroYou asked my forgiveness and received it
without . word Of reproach. There is need of
excuses Disgusting of facts, which medical who
have attended me have confirmed. Neither the
maady slight ONE as you were trying TO persuade your
SELF Ny sister is witness and you may be convinced by
coming to see the wreck am now. shall not die,
you say she has saved me, but It somewhat hard to
lose health eyesght and every beauty in the prime of
e Du resc, if these my suferngs, for your sake have
not endeared me more, do not think there any
obligation imposed upon YOU let it be forgoten-requi
esca in pace at win be remembered in both days Of
reckoning and that enough As the other business
the truth, you had proposed doing Surely she will
forgive and help you She has mothers heart and
throw away our last Of pnea
Events have rushed 80 swift to crisis 1t is not possible
stem the tdewe must cling fast together or we shall
be lost to each oherour cannot be reacted in the
future DO not for the sake Of chimera give up
real lifelong enjoyment. You have already broken the
spirit Of your promise What s the bare letter good orS
do not ask you to rush to immediate ruin but your
mother will keep the secret for your sake through
honor Of seeing your family, but must be protected
from ali possibility Of another Bordeaux expose Impu
na % hs s ms s are
man must feel the same-and am that there
man in the case you would not let him 60 unpublished.
You will recollect that ! told you before ! con-
sented to keeping the marriage secret that this,
this alone. was the only sacrifice could not willingly
claim the plea that you had deceived her and intro
duced improper into her house in order to
you oSn hs n sas
You say you never think-that is fb in your present
position positive you think great deal but fear
to disclose your thoughts May / guess9 You think,
perhaps that would be better for keep apart
long, long time until circumstances remedy themselves?
This may be wise, but 80 very hard; even now time
hangs like an incubus upon 7empMs fight
hcy. should be tempting you to come over, only
very ugly that you could not love look at me-
IL is strange you do not miss me more We have never
lived together long sufficiently. II we could remain
together for six months, then you would You are
very good Carlo to write to me often; IL is the only
pleasure left mel cannot see to read or write
my days are so long and drearymy nights restless and
ward to, 80 pray think OF often lie awake from
daylight waiting FOR the postman will seal my letter,
had struck that such letters write to you could
only be written by wife or Please write directly
nervous and anxious to know what your mother will
say trust II she who opened the letter; any OF
n Be
CO. Cara mio think at least of the happiness we have
known togetherso entire SO unbounded; s there any
other Joy the world to be compared to recprocated
lover How everything earth became Indifferent but
two selves. You said was the dearest small Tooi-
tool that lived and thought there not in the
"'@' "'''N TERESA YELvERroN.
SUMMING UP.
Mr.. Whitesde summed up for the plaintiff. The
following is his peroration:-
Tbouoh he nv nj ha re
added hypocrisy profanity deception and blasphemy,
am bound to pay for the sustenance Of this
am not her welded husband. stand before you her
profigate and unprncpled seducer. found her
young. ] found her virtuous. I found her beauti
beauty spoiled and hopes Of life fed for Better the
hand Of death had swept her to early grave would
gentle tears recalling happy memories Of the past, as
suaged and checked by blessed hopes Of a bright,
immortal future. He has blasted her happiness in
this life; he has endangered it in the life TO
from the consequences Of that argument, and
do not brand him as his counsel do-as a scientific,
deliberate, unprinciped seducer. (Applause.} How
stands the question that the whole Of this great
trial is before you-now that you have all these facts
and cannot dwell at this hour infinitely upon each par
ticuhr circumstance might have done II had gained
you earlier hour Of the day, endeayoring 10
IL step by step. ask you to judge Of that woman
she has appeared before you and then do be-
leve herr Trace her life up from the first hour that she
stood within the walls of the convent until the day she
satin that box TO tell the story Of her muudinous
Ask yourselves what fact has been proved against
ner any man save TINS uefenuanE crime
u.s. she loved him too dearly and too well Had she pos
sessed millions she would have flung them at his feet.
Had she throne to bestow she would have placed hin
on that throne She gave him the Kingdom Of h0r heart
and made him sovereign Of her affections. There he
reigned with undisputed sway. Great the gift our al
fections were by Almighty hand planted in the
human heart They have survived the fall and repaired
the ravages Of sin and death. They dignity,
exat, and inspire existence here below, which,
without them, were cold monotonous and duff They
unite heart 70 heart by adamantne links. Nor their
limited to this lfe We may well believe that when
the mysterious union between soul and body Is dis.
solved the high affections Of nature--purined,
spiritualized immortazedmay add to the felicity
reserved for the spirits Of the just made per-
feet through the countless ages Of eternity cloud ap
pause) She gave him her afections-shc gave him her
iove-a woman's love- Who can fathom its depths
Who can measure its Intensity Who can describe its
devotonp She told you herself what that love when
she wrote 10 him;n you were to be executed as con
yict, would stand beneath the gallows.n II he had
taken that woman for his wife, misery would have