Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
ROMANCE In NAPLES.
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An Hefress Abductesd and shut Up tn ai
Asylum Tor I4anaticss#
rFrom the London Daily News !.

Our.c orrespondent- at Rome writes
Miss Vernieri, still ia her. teens, has
lost her father, and lives, with her
mother in Saferno. She is beautiful,
Ielevef, and eeemplishedy~and~inher
| 12O. 900 ducats, or about half a million
lire. Her motheris completely under
the power of the family physician, Dr.;
fCosimati, who poses as protector of the
widow and orphan Eligible offers of
marriage are made to Miss Vernieri, but
are skillfully STAYED off by the doctor
and his dupe, the mother, their object
being to enjoy the administration OF the
young lady's means, of which the moth
er was simply the depository, and of
which the prospective son-ln-laW would
become absolute master. AT length
Miss Vernieri attained her majority,
and her guardians anticipated her ia.
tentions of matrimony by proposing to
her as her fiance her first cousin. This
young, gentleman resided in Naples.
and thither the. mother, daughter, and
family doctor repaired to arrange the
nuptials. / The YOUTH however: found
no favor in the eyes, of Miss Vernieri,
who, on the contrary, became desper-
ately enamored of q young advocate
whom she met under the roof OF an
aunt in Naples. Her passion was recIp-
.rocated, and the mothers opposition
made the daughter only more r~esolatei
her determination to marry the young
advocate. So doctor and mother to-
gether changed their tactics. One
morning Madame Vernieri said to her
daughter, care you really determined
to marry him?'' "Yes.n f.Then, as |
can't bear to see you unhappy give
my consent" The young lady fell on
her mothers neck, and wept with joy,
till, gently disengaging herself, Madame
Vernieri said, "Now, as your lover and
his family live at Naples, it is better
that we should go there and fix the day
of marriage, and get your trousseau
ready" They started accordingly, and
took apartments at the Hotel Fiori,
neal the Fiortini Theater, intending to
take a house in the country for the en-
suing summer, the marriage having
been arranged for the end of autumn.
They had been only two days in the no
tel when DIR. Cosimati came in with a
| Signor Miraglia, whom he represented
as a cousin of his, and as DESTROYS OF
forming Miss Vernieri's acquaintance.
| The young lady chatted pleasantly
enough on current topics with the new
conner till he took his leave, and she
thouohtno more about him. Forty
eight hours afterWard the doctor pro-
posed a drive into the country, at which
| the ladies were delighted, and all three
were soon in a carriage bowling along
the Via del Camho.
Miss Vernieri asked many questions
as to the palazzi and villas they passed
till they approached Il grand edifice,
whose magnificent site awoke her adj
miration. Whose was it? The doctor,
as if suddenly struck by an idea, Or
dered the driver to stop. "Here," he
lsaid, sis precisely what you want, a
country residence till the close of No
vember. This palace is divided into
suites of apartments. Come in and let
US see how you like them" They
alighted and entered, and the doctor
asked for Madame Flourens. An iron
gate was then opened, admitting to a
courtyard, from which they mounted
two flights of stairs, and then they were
ushered into a drawing-rOOm, where
they were politely received ythat lady.
DIR. Cosimati then intimated that Miss
Vernieri wished to take apartments for
the summer in the palazZo, and would
like to be shown through the various
suites. Madame Flourens was only too
delighted, and offered her arm to the
Young lady, who mechanically took it.
Then the mother said, languidly: 'You
can 60 alone, my dear, and make your
choice, which is sure to satisfy me. |
am tired, and will wait here with the
doctor till you come back Madame
Flourens and Miss Vernieri then moved
off, and the moment the door closed be-
hind them the mother and doctor slipped
stealthily through a private passage,
gained the staircase, and were soon in
the courtyard. Meanwhile Miss Yer
nieri was making the tour of the apart
ments, and it was not long before Miss
Vernieri learned that she had been left
in an asylum for lunatics.
After her discovery, Miss Vernieri
asked Madame Flourens, the lady su-
perintendent, how she could have con-
scented to become an instrument in such
q base conspiracy. The lady smiled
sadly. "Figlia mia! were | to believe
all those who say they have been
brought here as the victims of a con-
spiracy, / should have few patients on
my handsi" "But," demonstrated
Miss Vernieri, "what legal proof have
you that | am Il tit subject for an
asylum" "The doctor who came here
with you," replied Madame F1ourens,
"applied to me for the admission of a
patient. | told him he must first have
a certificate of the patients madness,
signed by the director of the establish.
lnent, who is the first alienist in Naples,
DIR. Miraglia." "Ah," broke in Miss
Vernieri, to whom this name was a
revelation, "the peridious plotters
That cousin of his, whom DIR. Cosimati
presented to me, was DR.. Miraglia,
then! But how could the doctor certify
my lunacy? l talk nationally enough.
Oh! the monsters!" "EiQlta ma i,
behold my Justification" and Madame
Flourens produced the certificate of the
a%lienist, DIR. Miraglia, the director OF
the asylum.