The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-04-27

OF light gold, and eyes OF darkest hue
a face with a beautiful mouth-a face
that, once seen, could never be forgot
ten. The girls looked slowly up and
down the broad waters then her eyes
fell on the face upraised TO hers, and
she disappeared.
BY dint of persevering inquiry he
found out who she was, and learned
her history; he resolved that he would
marry her. Her name was Giulia Ill
Cynthia, and she lived in dull,
gloomy, half-ruined old palace with her
elder sister Assuntl. They were the
last descendants of noble but ruined
race. In the life OF the elder sister As
sunta there had been 4 tragedy She
had been beautiful in her youth, with
the dark picturesque beauty of the
Venetian women; and her lover, who
held an appointment under the Nene-
tian Government n il existed then, had
gone to England on political business,
and there had been foully and trcacher-
ously murdered. For this Assunta
hated the English and England with a
N--AS
and night for vengeance upon the per
fidious and sccursed country she
would have seen an Englishman die of
hunger ut her feet rather than have re-
heved him with even crust of bread.
She was twenty years older than Giulia,
and every year grew bitterer. Their
parents had died when she was twenty
six and the little golden haired Giulia
only six. They had but little money;
the gloomy old palace, with its faded
hangings, its worm-eaten furniture, its
air of decay, was theirs, but the income
lett 10 them was but scanty. Assunta
brought up her little sister to hate Eng
land.
pray. child" she would say, "that
Heaven may bless every land except
England. Pray that the sun may shine
and the dew fall on every land except
that. 1t is accursed, for innocent blood
was shed there"
But Giulia could not learn TO hate;
when she had finished her prayers, she
would say in low voice that Assunta
could not hear-"II eaven bless Eng
land too 20
Assunta watched the little Giulia
grow until she became one OF the love
Hest maidens in Venice but, when
Jasper Brandon came from the land
which she held accursed and asked for
her treasure, she wonld not -i-e her to
him. She drove him away with stern,
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rather that her beautiful Giulia lay
drowned and dead in the waters OF the
canal than that she became his wife.
He had met her only five or six times
when he asked her TO be his wife-he
had not written home about her. His
whole life had been absorbed in his
love. He had forgotten his country,
parents, friends; the swift, keen, sud
dan passion had taken poss ession of
him he had no life outside il, and he
came OF a race that never hesitated in
love nor faltered in war. When As
sunta drove him from the threshold
with bitter words, he made up his mind
what to do. Looking into the face of
the girl he loved, he said:
II cannot live without you. Send me
away If you will will not live Come
with me, and l will make this world
heaven for US both"
She assented. lie married her un-
known to everyone, and took her away
to little place on the Mediterranean.
Assunta redoubled her prayers. Evil
should, evil must, come to the country
which called such monsters OF men
sons. She vowed solemniy never in
life to see or speak 10 Giulia again
and she kept her word.
On those sweet southern shores Jas
per and Giulia dwelled for one wear.
They lived on love one entire happy
year There were times when Jasper
roused himself, 10 wonder, what his
parents would say when he took his
young bride home. lie had no time
70 ask for their consent to his marriage.
and when he was married he had many
misgivings. He knew that they had
great hopes rs TO his marriage that
they wished him TO wed Lady Marie
Naldoraine so he felt that, perhaps, it
would be better il he said nothing abost
it until he took his young wife home.
Then, when they saw her, when their
eyes dwelled on the beauty OF her most
fair face, they would forgive him and
love her.
So for this one happy year they lived
on beauty and love-on sunshine and
flowers And they were 50 unutterably
happy that it seemed as though the
ordinary doom of man was not to fall
on them.
There has never been a love so
say TO her.
So amid the olives and the vines,
amid the gorgeous flowers and the starry
blossoms on the shores of the sapphire
sea, under the light of the golden sun
and shining stars, amid the music of
birds and the laughter of sweet bios
SONS, they lived and loved Only one
year, and then the little child whose
coming was TO have crowned their hap
piness WAS born; but its birth cost its
mother her life, and the same day on
winch the hIIIe Veronica opened iirr
eyes, her mother, the beautiful golden
haired Giuha, closed her own forever.
Swift to love and swift to hate were
the Brandons of Queens Chace He
had loved the young mother with keen,
intense passion-he hated the child
with swift, keen hatred
Take it from my sight" he said to
the weeping women LET me never
see it. 1t has cost its mother her life. 4"
And they carried it away, weeping
womanly tears OF compassion
He could not forgive the child he