Thro' the leaves that close embower it,
That my love I'll be to you.
SHE.

What the bank, with verdure glowing,
Is to waves that wander near,

Whispering kisses, while the're going,
That I'll be to you my dear,

But they say the bee's a rover,

That he'll fly when sweets are gone; And, when once the kiss is over, Faithless brooks will wander on.

Still spreading as the loud wines howl, Checks, Cards, Handbills

passioned description which Alfour-
so gave of the lovely countenance
of the gory head excited her ten-
He stood before!
derest interest.
her in all the array of godlike vis-
ion; her thoughts quitting their
celestial enthralment but to recog-
nize the soldier whose martial
mein once caught her approving
fancy-snatching from his hand
the hasty outline of Antonia's face
which he had still preserved, she
bedewed it with her tears, fancied
she recognized a resemblance of
Alfonso, and was in the act of im
pressing a kiss upon the paper,
when recollecting her imprudence
she blushed and gave it to the ob-

That blush did more than all beside--it was instantly reflected upon the countenance of Alfonso

Mariana stood awhile in speechless wonder. She gazed upon Alfonso, then rushing into the arms of Violante mingled tears of sympathy together. The transports of sensibility a little subsided, he was desired to be seated, and rang ing themselves on either side entreated a history of the transac-serving Agnes. tion Now began those emotions which were to cost him many a Now the heart, touched pang. with transports hitherto unknown, betrayed him into a labyrinth from which all his philosophy was incompetent to extricate him. He pursued the narrative; but carefully concealed the real name and character of the assassin All were affected by the horror it occasioned--each paid her tribute of applause to the intrepid valor of the hero; but the artless inno-throbbings of appalling memory, cence of Mariana, while she sought she swooned away with a mahoa repetition of the last scene, stole medan exclamation upon her lips. upon his bewildered senses, and thrilling with increased emotion, half intoxicated the brain. eyes sparkled with excessive sensibility as he portrayed the assassin, stooping over the duke, the poignard already raised to finish the eventful tragedy--but the im†

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each to feel and own the electric shock. Agnes took the paper; but it was impossible to resist or mistake the silent confessions of the two-her eye was drawn from it for a moment. Soon as she had perused the features the remark of Mariana was not unnoticed: & overpowered by the exquisite

Imagine the confusion of Alfonso at an epithet so extraordinary! Violante and Mariana ran for ward to the assistance of Agnes, but stupified by an expression, in such a place too! Alfonso stood doubting even his own doubts. In

Sensible of the imprudence she had betrayed as soon as Agnes recovered her scattered senses she was proceeding to observe upon the likeness discovered by Mariana 'the better to conceal the real direction of her thoughts; but Alfonso was resolved to satisfy his curiosity.

'Answer me who can,' cried he, in the turkish language she had used, if the God of the faithful be that of the christian?

O! merciful father,' she exclaimed, what art thou, that my awakened memory should thus forebode? then addressing Violante in their own tongue, leave us, my children, for a moment i but see that none approach.

Art thou of Turkish origin?' she asked

'Yes.'

Asiatic or European?'

'That I know not
'Nor where born?"

'I know it not.'

Your father?'

'Alas even him--'

•No parent
do you know?'

'None, but good old Morad-

Morad of Belgrade !'

'Yes.'

Briefly he ran over the transactions of the past, from his earliest recollection of Morad's cottage to the late discovery of his ancient friend. Now, my dear mother, cried Alfonso as he finished, 'now for your sad story-I long to hear some tidings of a father who, tho' he merits not, that tender appelation has yet a claim

It is a long and tedious narrative my son,' she interrupted,———— 'hereafter you shall hear every particular of my checkered life.But, while within our power, let us contrive the means of escape from this. The superior is recovering from her indisposition contrary to the expectation of eveHeaven knows I wish ry one.

0!Gud-0 God!- is he! her well, that she may yet live to

repent her unnumered crimes!pected his will. Though often

assured she should be supported in her refusal to take the veil, she neither knew how it was to be accomplished, nor was she capable of developing the cause of such a decided varience in the conduct pursued by the abbess as regarded Mariana and herself: to the companion of her misfortunes was of fered every species of indignity; nay, brutality not unfrequently substituted for insult, and at times privation heaped upon accumulat

but so blackened with depravity, I fear her returning health. Her polluted mind was only lately known to me, and from this abode of infamy already have I resolved to run. Your discovery rekindles a desire of life, and to-morrow's evening must see me hence, or the succeeding morn may separate us for ever. Hasten to the duke— bid him instantly demand Violante's liberation-prepare to set-forward to your regiment, for you must place me in safety first. I'lled privation, while, on the contrary, give you some jewels which luckily I have by me-these you'll dispose of for our immediate use--for the future we must confide in providence; after I am beyond the reach of pursuit you can return to the duke from whose genzerosity you have so much to expect. Mariana I mean to take with us, so speak not of our plans nor of the discovery we have *made.

she herself was pressed to a renunciation of the world with all the soft blandishments of an ensnaring, tongue. The wily abbess well knew the barrier of her successskilled in the artifices of her profession, she taught herself to believe the only chance of enriching the convent with the united wealth of the two, was the practice of severe discipline to the one, to the other mildness blended with unusual indulgencies: it sometimes

will outwit its own well-poised sagacity. Few female minds could boast of fortitude superior to Mariana. Educated in the school of

Violante and her companion en-happens,however, that the cunning *tering at the moment, a period was necessarily put to further conversation, and Agnes retired to bring the jewels she spoke of; neither seemed to have been par-adversity, she had been taught in ticularly struck with their abrupt dismissal by Agnes; which entered with symptoms of curiosity; The vicious habits of her but it was only to learn the nature father were soon recognized. Aof the communication supposed of bandoned by him whose province the duke's arrangements for Vioshould have been the cultivation of lante's release. Violante was still a daughter's faculties, and while ignorant of the capital oversight yet a child acquiring a toste for committed by her father as res-letters, she began to perceive an

early life those lessons which were to bear her up against the day of trial.