Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-13

Richard, have shared your short
lived splendor, let me participate in
your reverses. Let lis leave Scotland ;
let us together seek our exile, and a
kindred fate be ours. Where thou
goest, will go, where thou lodgest |
will lodge, thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my Godr'
Undetermined woman but it
must not be- p calculated the youth.
"Catharine-for [ dare not longer
wear a mask-prepare thyself to
curse thy unworthy husband. Thou
deemest me the rightful heir to Eng
land crown, but know me as an i'm
postor. l won thy heart by a lie.
Ambitiously aspiring to the heart of
one fair and noble as thyself, have l
entailed on a great and glorious race
ruin and dishonor. Yet oh! forgive
me. and do not execrate my wild am
bition.''
ooh, Richard, was this deception
generous? Yet hold, my swelling
heart, and let my duty as wife sub
due my woman's pride. My husband,
avert not from me thus thy fearful
eyes. Whoe'er thou art, thou hast
been to me all tenderness. 1t will be
now my grateful task to prove to thee
that Catharine Gordon's love was un-
alloyed by interest and ambition. If
she adored thee when, amid thy gal
liant train, thou stoodst unmatched,
twas not the splendor of thy royal
name that made me wish thee mine.
Yes, my husband, | loved thee, and
still [ love thee, for thyself alone.
Let us, then, fly these shores: desist
from the wild pursuit of what thou
hast no claim to, and let US seek a
happy, contented privacy"
"Alas, my beloved it is impossi-
BILE. Bound by a solemn oath to pur-
sue, while | have being, the claim l
have asserted, no rest remains to me.
Leave me to my woes-leave me to
my dishonor. Why-why should we
both be wretched?"
AS the unhappy speaker concluded
he folded in his arms his faithful
wife, and Intellectually endeavored to
subdue her determination to share his
fortunes.
The reader will, ere this, have dis
covered in the husband of the Lady
Catharine, the youth who, during the
reign of Henry VII, had arrogated
to himself the title of Richard, duke
of York, second son of Edward ".
who with his brother, had been mur
dered in the tower by the inhuma1
Richard III.
Possessed of every Accomplishment
that could engage affection, th'
youth, whose name was Perkin War
beck, Fleming, had gained th
ready respect and confidence of man,
. persons of rank in England.
After the failure, however, of hi
endeavors to excite revolt in tina
country, which was discovered by tn
vigilance of the king, and frustrate,
, by the immediate execution of his ad
, herents, he had repaired to Scotlan
q and solicited the assistance of Jane
~ to place him on the throne G
e England.
James, whose credulity was equs
> to his valor, was easily prevailed 0
: to support his pretensions.
s He received him with the highes
Y distinction, and in a short time col
sented to his union with relative {
k his own, the Lady Catharine Gordol
{ daughter of the earl of Huntly.
= Between the ''White Rose Of SEQ
r land d'-for such was the appellate
it which the extraordinary beauty {
A this young lady had gained her-ar
le the adventurer, an ardent attachmel
y had existed from the earliest perio
of his arrival in Scotlond.
," But, finding the English people |
lie no means disposed to join the fict
/ tious prince, the Scottish king ga
up the cause as hopeless.
:, The sun was attaining his meridi;
. height when the unhappy adventur
as and his devoted bride embarked
~ Leith for Flanders.
TT ssBless the leddie! bestow ba,
II bee in charity on poor auld witle
., Mansie.' -
h. Such were the words addressed
90 a wretched-looking figure to the La
ed Catharine, as, leaning on her hi
sh bands arm, she appeared ON t
., beach.
&c She threw her small coin, viii
rd the beggar received, calculating:
go ''Many thanks, leddie. Mansi
cd prayers shall swell tue breeze Il
watts thee DER the wild saut wa
mt But" almost shrieked she, gazing
ng the astonished Catharine, "muc
VS. fear hae / ye need na wish a spec
10 voyage-better watery grave th
or broken heart-better pillow
ct. the foaming brine than sleepl
he'd in q f0rpiOn land -