The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-14
PA, THURSDAY, MARCH IA, 1867.

her summons reused the domestics. and
her father himself, she was again mista-
ken for an apparition, the door was closed
upon her, and her father and his servants
retreated in alarm.
Ulnevra lay upon the cold steps almost
lnsensible, and in despair. All who saw
her he'd terror-stricken from her presence.
She had returned from the grave, and no
one would grant her earthly shelter
NO one Was there not one who
would grant her earthly shelter7
No one? Was there not one who
would never bid her depart, even should
he imagine that she had come to him
as spirit? With that thought she once
more struggled to her feet aud made her
toi!some way through the deserted street
tGethe house where dWelt Antonio Ron
dinelli.
Antonio still loved her with unabated
ardor, and had taken a vow to be constant
to her memory, and never to marry. The
tidings of her death had reached him, and
he had not sought his couch that night.
lie was sitting weeping and thinking of
his douoly lost Ginegra.
Her strength was SO far exhausted that
she could knock only very feebly; but
Antonia heard the sound, and, passing
out on his balcony, saw the graVe-clad
figure and the upturned, colorless face of
Ginevra. She family nurmured his
name He, too, believed it to be a spirit
but it was the spirit of his beloved, aud
the sight and sound filed him with
transport.
Quickly and joyfully he descended, and
throwing open the entrance door, he stoop-
ed and raised the cold, shrouded form that
lay PROSTATE at his feet. What painter
could picture his anazement and ecstasy
Ginevra lived and was restored to himl
He summoned his mother, with whom
he resided, and assembled his family to
rejoice with him, and to listen to Gincv-
ra's tale. Then Autonio bound them all
by an oath to silence, and sent faithful
servant to replace the stone upon the
opening of the vault, and to remove every
trace of the fugitive's footsteps.
Meantime, the exhausted Ginevra, now
indeed almost dying from the neglect and
bardships she had endured, was laid il
warm bed, and was tenderly pinistered to
by the mother of Antonio. For four
DAYS, Ginevra's life seemed like flicker
ing candle, which a breath might extin-
guish. On the fifth day, she gradually
revived, ard before long was able to rise
and hold converse.
She pondered deeply and sadly upon
the only honorable course that was left
to her, and at last, with gentle 6rmness,
announced to ADtonia that, as she could
never return to her brutal husbands pro-
lection, she felt herself compelled to en-
ter convent.
Antonio, hurled from the summit of
his sudden happiness into an abyss of
despair, implored her to revoke this cruel
decsion-cruel not to him only, but to her
self He brought forward manifold ar
uumeuts 20 convince her that the tie
which bound her TO Agolanti was dissolv-
ed by death and burial which all the
world believed to be real, and entreated
| her to become the wife of one who had
never loved but her, and had claimed her
| for his own before she was sold to Ago
lanti. His mother and family Joined their
prayers 10 lis, and Ginevra, listening to
| them, and TO the pleadiBgs OF her own
heart, slowly consented.
1t is recorded that Antonia and Ginevra
were privately united by the public nota-
ry, who was bound to secresy.
Meantime, all Florence was listening to
! descriptions of the ghost of Ginevra,
which so many persons had beheld pas
| sing through the streets; and which her
husband testified had appeared to him,
while her father declared il had also Wis
! tied his door. The two families ordered
| a bountiiul number OF masses to be said
| for the repose of the unquiet spirit.
Agolanti now offered the jewels and
wardrobe Of Gioevra for sale His great
| wealth did not prevent bis evincing this
| lack of reverence for her memory, i'm
| PEELED as he was by sordid love OF gain.
| Roudinelli, as sooA as he heard of the
proposed barter, hasteued to the residence
of Agolanti and purchased every article
| bis Dewly-made vile had possessed, pay
| ing the most extravagant prices, to pre-
vent the smallest object which had been
| consecrated by her use from passing into
the hands OF strangers.
| For some months, Ginevra lived 10
entire seclusion, her existence unknown
| to any but her husbands family and few
trustworthy domestics. But neither she
nor her husband was satisfied with this
| mode of life RondiueIii saw no reason
why he should not appear before the world
as the proud husband Of SO fair and be-
| loved wife. Ginevra, too, detested the
constant stratagems to which they were
obliged TO resort, and resolved to go forth
boldly into society. In the reVivifying
atmosphere of calm happiness and salts
| fed love she had risen out of the passive