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from his horse, extended is
right hand towards her,
gin a waved her handkerchief,
moist with her tears, and en-
joyed the enrapturing idea,
that her soul still communicated

Eugenio, heaved a deep sigh, and descended to her apartment. She threw herself on the bed, where the excess of her agitation would not allow her to taste the sweets of re

her grief, a few short and in. terrupted slumbers suspended for a while the dreadful and foreboding thoughts that op pressed her heart.

with that of her dear Eugenio;pose; at length, exhausted by hot soon the last rays of the setting sun were succeeded by the lengthened shadows that obscured the Apennine mountains. The bright star of day had already disappeared, and Virginia could no longer penerate the light vapours with which the approach of evening overspread the surrounding horizon.

Absorded in melancholy, and enjoying the profound solitude that reigned around her, she remained a full hour on the spot where she stood, leaning her head against a buttress of the battlement. A cold and

Let us now leave for a time the tender, and lovely Virgi nia, abandoned to gloomy and Each day consuming sorrow. she visited the sad scenes but late embellished with the presence of Eugenio-now, alas! to her sight obscured by that melancholy tint which ever pervades the inanimate ob jects of former delight, and renders them the mute remem brancers of the pleasures they

bleak wind arose, and whist-retrace. Let us now return ling along the winding staircase to Eugenio.

of the tower, agitated the shrubs that had taken root in the interstices of the stones that formed the building; the heavy flight of night birds, their shrill and ill-omened cries startled her, and produced an emotion of terror, which roused her from the painful state of lethargy in which she was plunged. She turned her eyes towards the spot where she had last beheld

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No less afflicted than Virgi nia, but at the same time impatient to arrive at Rome, in or der that he might the sooner return to receive the sweet reward, of which the promise his mother had assured him, he could scarce support the tediousness of his journey; his mind, wholly abstracted by the image of her he loved, was

insensible to every other object; he neither saw nor heard

towards the palace of his uncle; and every time the car

any thing, answered the ques-riage was retarded by the ob

structions of the crowded streets, he looked out to see if he had arrived.

At last the postchais stopped before the Palace of Caprara. Eugenio, transported with joy, immediately leaped out, and hastened into the court-yard, without paying the least attention to the number of carriages with which it was filled. He was on the point of entering the interior of the Palace, when bis Governor, who had some difficulty in following him, suddenly stopped, and entreat

tions of his Governer by a single Monosyllable, and repeaedly consulted his conductor as to the distance they had to proceed before they arrived at their journey's end. He scarce allowed himself time to sleep on the road, but employed the greater part of the night in writing to Virginia. He pain. ted to her his love, and the regrethe experienced at being absent from her. His letters were written in that style of incoherence, and with that disregard of conection, which is ever the characteristic of a violent and unfeigned passion.ed him to consider that it was At length he found himself in the delightful plains with which Rome is surrounded, and gave free vent to the effusions of his joy.

necessary he should repair the disorder of his dress, before he presented himself to the Cardinal, who, according to every appearance, had at that time a number of visitors of the first rank. Eugenio reluctant

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ducted to the apartment destined for him, and found in the anti-chamber, several servants who awaited his orders.

On arriving at that celebrated city, formerly the mistressly suffered himself to be conof the world, he neither remarked the beauty of its streets and squares, the obelisks with which it is decorated, nor the magnificent architecture of its monuments, which had endured for so many ages, and seemed destined to be the archieves of the immortal geniusses who had constructed them. His thoughts were solely directed

Notwithstanding the distrac tion of his mind, he was struck with the magnificence of the gallery through which he was conducted to his bed-chamber: pillars of porphyry supported a

cornice, on which were ranged bus's and vases of the most cious workman-hip; pictures of the greatest masters of the Italian school every where presented themselves to his sight. Eugenio seemed more particu. larly delighted with one of them, which represented the return of Briseis to Achilles ; he thought of his loved and absent Virginia, and tears moistened his eyes: but soon recovering the impatience he felt to see the Cardinal, he hastened to the chamber appointed for him, where two servants attended to assist him in dressing.

Scarce had they finished the office with which they were charged, than the Cardinal was announced, who having been informed of the arrival of Eugenio, had quitted the brelliant company assembled at his house, in order to have the pleasure of embrasing his ne phew.

Eugenio bowed respectfully, and raised to his lips the hand the Cardinal presented to him; but scarce had he surveyed the figure of his unele, than he was struck with its perfect resemblance to that of his father, yielding to the emotion which the likeness produced, he knelt before him, and with difficulty restrained his tears.

The Cardinal raised him up, pressed him in his arms, and spoke to him in the most affectionate manner.

'Come my nephew,' he exclaimed, 'come; and I will present you to the company I have just left. Every one is impatient to see you; you will find among them the Count Vizzani, your maternal uncle, and the charming Rosalia, his daughter, who have been these two months past at rome.

Eugenio followed his uncle in silence. The air of dignity which distinguished the Car dinal's whole figure, added to the splendour with which he was surrounded, inspired him with a certain timidity he found it impossible to overcome; and this first interview, which he had desired with so mnch ardour, passed away without his having courage sufficient to pronounce the name of Vir ginia.

As they entered the grand saloon, the ears of the Cardinal were struck with the flattering buz of approbation which spread throughout the assembly. The extreme beauty of Eugenio's figure, the graces of his person, and the nobleness of his deportment, excited general admiration: the ladies in

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particular could not conceal the Finding his efforts to remove impression his appearance pro-it ineffectual, he gave the task

duced." What expressive eyes!--what a handsome shape!' they whispered one to another.

(To be Continued.)

HIGHLAND HEROISM.

OR THE

CASTLES OF

GLENCOE AND BALLOCH.

(Continued.)

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over for several days; but at
length ashamed of yielding to
the seeming difficulty, he was
renewing his examination when
his foot accidentally pressed
against one corner, and it flew
open, and discovered the spring
by which it was fastened.
wide and forlorn apartment lay
before him, which he traversed
and passing through a pair of
folding doors, entered a long
gollery. which terminated on
the left in a winding staircase,
leading to a hall below. HIS
attention was arrested at the
second by the sounds of grief,
he entered and beheld the two
ladies whom he had before
sighed to speak to. The elder
one was weeping, and a casket
and some papers lay on the ta
ble beside her. On perceiv-
ing them, the Earl advanced,
apologised so gracefully for the
intrusion, that it confirmed
Malvina (the name of the young
lady) in the impression which
his figure had already made on
her mind. The person, fea-
tures, and complexion of Mal-
vina were formed to charm the
heart of the most indifferent;
it is not surprising then that
beauty in distress sunk deeply
into the breast of Allen, who
contemplated her fine blue eyes
with an expression in his coun-

The Earl with anxious ex-
pectations, looked hour after
hour at his grate to behold his
clan advancing over the distant
hills. Often in the fine even-sighed to speak to.
ings of summer, did he see the
captive ladies walking on the
terrace below the tower.
longed to let them know that
they had a fellow prisoner, and
one day dropped a sonnet he
had written, which he had the
pleasure to see picked up by
the ladies. who immediately
retired with it to their appart-

ment.

As the Earl sat one day looking upon the opposite wainscothe observed that a pannel in it was different from the rest: it 11 was surrounded by a small crack and shook on being pulled

tena of what he felt. He concluded that the Baron bad made her a captive but to satiate his brutal appetite, and, impelled by a wish to serve the interesting objects before him, he addressed the Baroness in a spe h of regret, that the chains ons hands prevented him from aiding the escape of those who had so warmly interested his feelings.

soldier or philosepher. Aniong the former visitors was the late Baron Ancolm brother to the present chief, who was then travelling through Switzerland The beauty of Marianna attracted his attention, and he solicited her hand in marriage. His sense and figure were unexceptionable, and there seemed but one obstacle to the union, and this was the great distance of his residence.

The Baroness was no strang The Count was declining, and

er to the misfortunes of the Earl. and she lameuted her inability to assist him for fif. teen years they had been prisoners, the walls of the castle being the limits of their liberty. The Earl then requested

the Baroness to state the cause of her falling into Ancoln's power; who immediately detailed the following circumstances: Marianna, Baroness Ancolm, was the descendant of an ancient house in Switzerland. Her father, the Count St. Amand, early in life lost his beloved wife, and his only consolation was in the education of his children. His son died early in the field. and an elder daughter died in infancy, and Marianna was his only child. His chateau lay among the wild scenery of the Swiss Cantons, and was the resort of men of talents, whether the

his affectionate daughter could not endure to leave him; but this was at length over-ruled, by the Baron proposing to the Count to leave Switzerland, and, reside with his daughter in Scotland. To this the latter consented and yielded up every other consideration to the desire of securing protection and happiness for his child,

with a character so excellent as the Baron's.

"He left his native country, the residence of sixty years, and the burial place of his wife with infinate regret; nor was the concern of Marianna much less acute than that of her father. They arrived safely in Scotland, where the Count had

appartments fited up for him in the castle, and before his death saw his race renewed in the offspring of a sun and a

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