Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-01-29

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"But what if died toni ght, where
would it be then ?" said she, laughingly.
1.-The money would 60 to the church,
for none could claim it..
Perhaps you will favor us with an &C
acknowledgement"
"If you will write it.
An acknowledgement was written &C
cordingly, and she signed it before Mas
ter Bartolo, the village physician, who
had just called by chance to learn the
news of the day; the gold to be delivered
when applied for, but to be delivered
(these were the words) not to one, nor to
two but to the three-words wisely in
troduced by those to whom it belonged,
knowing what they knew of each other
The gold they had just released from a
miser's chest in Perugia, and they were
on scent that promised more.
They and their shadows were no soon
er departed, than the Venetian returned,
saving "Give me leave to set my seal on
the bag, as the others have done;" and
she placed it on q table before him. But
that moment she was called to receive
cavalier who had just dismounted from
his horse and when she came back, it
was gone. The temptation had proved ir-
resistable, and the man and the money
had vanished together.
Wretched woman that | am p she
cried, as in an agony of grief she fell on
her daughters neck "what will become
of us? Are we again to be cast out into
the wide world? Unhappy child, would
that thou hadst never been born !" And
all day long she lamented but her tears
availed her little The others were not
slow in returning to claim their due and
there were no tidings of the thief; he had
fled far away with his plunder A process
against her was instantly begun in Bolo-
gna and what defence could she make
how release herself from the obligation Of
- the bond =? Wilfully, or in negligence
she had parted with it to one, when she
! should have kept it for all and inevita.
| hla rnin awaited her
"Go, Gianetta," said she to her daugh
ter, take this veil which your mother
has worn and wcpt under so often, and
implore the counsellor Calderino to pleaC
. for us on the day of trial. He is gener
. Gus, and will listen to the unfortunate
n But if he will not 60 from door to door
> Monaldi cannot refuse us. Make haste
u my child but remember the chapel al
=, you pass by it. Nothing prospers with
% out prayer"
q Alas she wept, but in vain, Thes
,e were retained against them; those de
manded more than they had to give; an'
Il all bade them despair. What was to b
20 done? No advocate. and the cause t.
n. come off tomorrow
at Now Gianetta had lover, and he wa
70 student of the lava young man @
j. great promise, Lorenzo Martelli. He ha
a. studied long and diligently under til
he learned lawyer, Giovanni Andreas, VIII
st though little of stature, was great in re
as nown, and by his cotemporaries was calle
e. the arch-doctor, the rabbi of doctors, tn
at light of the world. Under him he ha
n studied, sitting on the same bench wit
id Petrarch; and also under his daugb
OF ter, Novella, who would often lecture [
vs. the scholars when her father was othel
re wise engaged, placing herself behind
on small curtain, lest her beauty should d
H. vert their thoughts; a precaution, in thi
as instance, at least unnecessary, Loren2
r: having lost his heart to another.
ne To him she flies in her necessity b,
va of what assistance can he be? He ha
co just taken his place at the bar, but he hi
it. never spoken; and how stand up alon
H.. unpractised and unprepared as he i
It, against an array that would alarm Il
At, most experienced p?
tn Were | as mighty as ! am weak,
IN said he, my fears for you would NAL
3D. me as nothing. But will be there, g
anetta; and may the Friend of the frien'
To- less give me strength in that hourl Eve
now my heart fails me; but come wha
lar will while | have n loaf In share W.