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power. Reply to the question put to brew, with a touch of gratitude in his thee: name thy accomplices.' voice. As he spoke he bent his face withI have told thee all. Thou hast re- in his bosom, which he covered, as in profused to answer me. I scorn and dely found meditation, with the folds of his thee my lips are closed.' löng robe. Scarce half the brief time al The grand inquisitor glanced to his lowed him had expired when he again brethren and raised his hand. His assist-lifted his countenance, and, as he did so, ants whispered each other; one of them flung back his garment. The Dominican rose and disappeared behind the canvass uttered a loud cry; the guards started at the back of the tent. Presently the back in awe. A wonderful change had hangings were withdrawn, and the prison- come over the intended victim: he seemed er beheld an interior chamber, hung with to stand among them literally wrapped in various instruments, the nature of which fire; flames burst from his lip. and played was betrayed by their very shape while with his long locks, as, catching the glowby the rack, placed in the centre of that ing hue, they curled over his shoulders dreary chamber, stood a tall and grisly like serpents of burning light: blood-red figure, his arms bare; his eyes bent; as by were his breast and limbs, his haughty an instinct, on the prisoner. crest, and his outstretched arm; and as,

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Almamen gazed at these dread prepar- for a single moment; he met the shudderations with an unflinching aspect. The ing eyes of his judges; he seemed, indeed; guards at the entrance of the tent ap- to verify all the superstitions of the time; proached; they struck off the fetters no longer the trembling captive, but the from his feet and hands; they led him to- mighty demon or the terrible magician. wards the appointed place of torture. The Dominican was the first to recover Suddenly the Israelite paused. his self-possession. Seize the enchanter!" Priest,' said he, in a more humble ac- he exclaimed; but no man stirred. Ere cent than he had yet assumed, 'the tidings yet the exclamation had died on his lip; that thou didst communicate to me re- Almamen took from his breast a vial, and specting the sole daughter of my house dashed it on the ground; it broke into a and love bewildered and confused me for thousand shivers: a mist rose over the the moment. Suffer me but for an in- apartment; it spread, thickened, darkenstant to recollect my senses, and I will ed, as a sudden hight; the lamps could not answer without compulsion all thou mayst pierce it. The luminous form of the He ask. Permit thy questions to be repeated.' brew grew dull and dim, until it vanished The Dominican, whose cruelty to oth- in the shade. On every eye blindness ers seemed to himself sanctioned by his seemed to fall. There was a dead silence, bwn insensibility to fear and contempt for broken by a cry and groan; and when, bodily pain, smiled with bitter scorn at after some minutes, the darkness gradualthe apparent vacillation and weakness of ly dispersed, Almamen was gone. One the prisoner; but as he delighted not in of the guards lay bathed in blood upon the torture merely for torture's sake, he mo- ground; they raised him: he had attempt tioned to the guards to release the Israel-ed to seize the prisoner, and been stricken ité; and replied. In a voice unnaturally with a mortal wound. He died as he mild and kindly considering the circum- faltered forth the explanation. In the constances of fusion and dismay of the scene none noPrisoner, could we save thee from ticed till long afterward that the prisoner pain, even by the anguish of our own had paused long enough to strip the dy flesh and sinews, Heaven is our judge that ing guard of his long mantle; a proof we would willingly undergo the torture that he feared his more secret arts might which, with grief and sorrow, we ordain- not suffice to bear him safe through the ed to thee. Pause; take breath; collect camp without the aid of worldly strata thyself. Three minutes shalt thou have to gem. consider what course to adopt ere we re- The fiend hath been among us!' said peat the question. But then beware how the Dominican, solemnly, falling on his thou triflest with our indulgence.' knees let us pray!

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THE GAMBLER.

from the window enlivening the sight with the beauteous fields clad in their gayest AUGUSTUS CLEAVELAND, at the age of hue-the rippling streams and distant fourteen possessed all the exterior graces hills, all served to magnify the beauty of of his sex, a fine expressive countenance, the surrounding prospect; Augustus gazed illumined by a pair of piercing black eyes on it with a boyish exstasy, never had he installed him in the good graces of his before cbserved such grandeur in the scene fair friends, while the independent state of before him.

his family, insured him a welcome, even He turned towards his father, who apamong his superiors: nor was his mind peared to be in deep meditation; the idea inferior to his form, ever alive to the of arousing him now occurred, gently pleadings of necessity, it was his invaria-pressing his hand, he fearfully hinted his ble practice to reserve a prescribed a- wish to know the cause of his parent's mount of pocket allowance for the poorer abstraction. class of tenants on his father's extensive "Look around you," said Augustus, "at

domain.

the vast extent of beautiful grounds-the Mr. Cleaveland, surrounded by op: delightful prospect-have these not charms blence, unincumbered by the cares and sufficient to drive away that clouded brow! intricacies with which a man of business is surrounded, spent the greater portion of Say, my father, what demon can cause his existence in that ruinous vice, gam- Glance but arcund you, cannot the sight that high-tinged cheek and troubled mien ? bling; it had gained such an ascendency of your entensive domain-"

over him at the time that our narrative

commences. that his very existence, nay fatuated parent, "my domain, alas, alas, "My domain," groaned forth his inhis whole soul appeared to depend upon what horror do those little words convey its continuance. Three years rolled away, Augustus had to my deluded brain; my son," continued he, "hear me; 'tis useless to delay-hear changed his comeliness of youth for the more set features of a man; he had also me, and curse your parent, curse him exchanged his heart with his youthful that brought you up in opulence to become a beggar. Oh, my son, vent not play-mate, Alice-he loved her, ardently loved her, and his affection was returned your anger yet, but listen. I have ruined in an equal degrec. Alice was a beauti-you-myself-all, all, is gone; that cursed ful girl: the dazzling beauty of her face vice that was my rage has ruined me. outshone every competitor, nor were her advice-his blessing, avoid cards, avoid Oh, my son, if you still value a father's virtues inferior to her lover's; one thought and alone, would oft-times cloud them as you would a noxious reptile, for her fair brow with sadness---her fortune not only have they ruined me in fortuné but honor: I am amenable to my country's amounted not to one-fiftieth part of Augustus', and she too well knew the avari- laws; for what? Oh, heavens! forgery! cious disposition of his father, to allow forgery is my crime; yes, now, you know all-now curse me-but remember my the remotest idea of their wishes being advice." realized by any application to him; Augustus too, was fearful, he had observed Here the unhappy father sank back in the contracted brow, vacant stare, and his chair exhausted. Augustus stood as thoughtful mood of his parent of late, and petrified; he glanced his eyes toward the therefore feared speaking, not doubting landscape, that a few moments before had his father had foreseen his attachment. yielded him such delight, all now appear Weeks passed in this state, until the im-ed tasteless-to his eyes all seemed dark patient Augustus, although dreading, de- and dismal; his hopes were blasted, all termined to communicate with his parent the visionary clouds of happiness had on the subject.

vanished.

It was a lovely morning in the middle He had not remained in this thoughtful of June, as father and son were taking mood long, ere a loud noise on the stairs their morning beverage, the birds warbled proclaimed an unusual interferance, he merrily as they sportively hopped among turned towards his parent, who had risent the fantastic trees; the enchanting view from his seat.

"It is the officers," cried his father,jany house of entertainment, we will leave "say, my son, do you forgive-" our readers to guess.

"Oh, yes, sir: make your escape, for Tire waned, the neglected wife was heaven's sake be quick, that door," said no longer able to support her tottering his scn, locking the other. frame; it was not until life appeared al

"I cannot, cannot go," cried the delu most extinct, that Augustus was awaken ded parent-" until I have some token ofed to a sense of her danger; but now, your forgivness, some remembrance-" now that it was past the aid of human "Take this," replied Augustus, han ing power to save, he hung over her, madhis own miniature (intended for Alice) dened at his own deliberate folly he al around his father's neck-in another most cursed the being that gave him birth. moment he had disappeared; a minute The fortune of his dying wife, the inscarcely elapsed cre the officers entered terest of which had for some time kept -the bird had flown-escaped. them with respectability, was gone, but

After a lapse of six months, (during how? Oh, he could not, dare not rumiwhich Augustus had not received any nate; his Alice who still loved him with communication from his father.) he was such devoted fervency, was dying, and he united to his beloved Alice; they had re-had not the means of relieving even the moved to London, the estates and effects smallest of his wants! his boy too-he having been realized to satisfy the nu could bear it no longer, but rushing from merous creditors; here on the fortune of the house wandered, he scarce knew Alice they lived happily for some time: whither; the night was extremely dark; one smiling cherub alone blessed their he found himself in a lonely street in the union; two years glided away, the love suburbs of the town, driven to a degree of the bridal couple weded into the more of frenzy, he scarce knew how to act, or sobered quietness of husband and wife. what he was doing-self-destruction was Augustus had contracted new acquain uppermost in his mind he drew a pristol tance, his hours of returning home became from his pocket, and slowly raised the irregular, the flushed countenance and deadly weapon to his head. flurried step, too plainly spoke the distur At that moment the shadow of a man bed state of his mind; for hours would scarcely visible, passed; a sudden thought his distressed and heart-broken wife fitted o'er the mind of the ill-fated Au sit watching the starry firmament, as the gustus.

myriads of luminous lights receded to the "Stop," he cried, with a wildness more magestic beams of the morning sun.scarcely to be surpassed, at the same time ere her unhappy husband returned to his revolving the position of the pistol, “Your now desolate dwelling; no angry sentence money!"

escaped her pale lips, the eyes of the love- ""Tis all I have," said the other, giving ly and still loving Alice, alone spoke her him some loose silver.

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imprisoned thoughts, but they were un- "Enough," cried the distracted robber, seen or unheeded by the care-worn Au-as seizing the money he rushed towards gustus; her imagination ever on the rack his home; he had already traversed the to invent some new scheme of pleasure to greater part of Regent street, a sudden again draw her husband earlier to his idea appeared to attract his attention, he home, gave way, and she dropped slowly drew forth the money and examined it: but sure; her before pale, lived counte. This small sum," he seemed to say, "is nance again resumed a color but not the useless; I may be fortunate," retracing a beauteous hue of the "maiden blush," few steps he entered a well known house with which her lovely cheeks were wont of entertainment; in a few moments the to be endowed, it was a lovelier deadlier dice rattled, a man who appeared worn tint which now usurped them-death had down with grief rather than age, was his marked her as his own, still she com-opponent. Augustus threw, and was for plained not. The house in Albany street tunate; again and again they played, but was exchanged for a more confined three Fortune, as if tired of its severity now story lodging in the vicinity of Regent declared in his favor-his antagonist had street; whether this was chosen as nearer no more; the gold tinkled as Augustus,

exulting in his prosperity, prepared to re- upon business of the utmost importance, lieve his dying wife. and requiring him to come unattended. 'Stop,' cried the old man, think not His lordship, who did not pay immediate thus easily to dupe me, the dice were attention to this letter, received a second, loaded.' the next day, in terms still more energetic. High words ensued, blows followed, This second summons appeared too singu swords were immediately procured, and lar to be disregarded. Lord S., therefore, the gamblers rushed to the back of the went to the place appointed, without any house-their weapons clashed, another attendants, but not unwarned; nor was he moment, and the vitorious sword of Au- absolutely devoid of fear, when he entergustus entered the other's breast; the ed one of the bye-places, in the metropoblood flowed profusely; all the virtues of lis, that most commonly indicate the resihis early days rushed to the mind of the dence of poverty and wretchedness. He ill-fated victor; he loosed the waiscoat of went up a dirty staircase into a garret, the dying man, and perceived a miniature where, by the glimmering light, he persuspended from the neck; almost paralized ceived a man, stretched upon a bed, with with fear, ha cast a single glance towards every appearance of extreme old age. i-oh, horror! who could describe or My lord,' said this unexpected object, I imagine the poignancy of his feelings--was impatient to see you. I have heard it was his own miniature-he looked of your fame. Be seated: you have noaround-the officers were approaching-thing to apprehend from a man a huna deep, deep groan followed by a con- dred and twenty-five years old.' Lord S. temptuous, horrid laugh, escaped the sat down, waiting with the utmost impaParacide he drew his pistol-the officers tience for the unravelling of this extraor rushed forward-a flash-a report follow-dinary adventure, while the centenary proed, the smoke dispersed, and the lifeless ceeded to inquire, whether his lordship body of the unfortunate Augustus laid, had not occasion for certain writings that with his head shattered, by the side of his related to his family and his fortune. murdered father.

THE BOYER.

Singular Adventure.

To

Yes,' replied his lordship with emotion, I want certain papers, the loss of which has deprived me of a great part of my inheritance.' 1 here,' returned the old man, giving him the key of a small casket, there are these writings deposited.' whom,' said his lordship, the moment.he Lord S. was the favourite of George II. discovered the treasure, to whom am I and one of the generals of the English ar indebted for this inestimable favour?' 'Oh, my at the battle of Dettingen. the dispo- my son,' replied the old man, 'come, and sitions of Marshal de Noailles were so ju- embrace your great grandfather.''My dicious, that nothing but the impetuosity great grandfather!' interrupted his lordof a subordinate French officer saved the ship, with inexpressible astonishment. But. allied army from destruction, and even how much more was he astonished, when gave them an unexpected victory. The this ancestor informed him that he was the consequence was, that Lord S., who was masked executioner of King Charles I. the only person that seemed to be sensi- An insatiable thirst of vengeance,' conble of the unskilful movements of the al-tinued he, 'impelled me to this abominable lies, but whose sentiments were disregard crime. I had been treated, as I imagined, ed, lost the favour of his sovereign, and with the highest indignity by my soverretired from the army in disgust. On his eign. I suspected him of having seduced arrival in London, he proposed to reside my daughter. I sacrificed every sense of on his estate in Scotland; but some days loyalty and virtue to revenge this imagibefore his intended departure, he received nary injury. I entered into all the dea letter in a very extraordinary style, cal- signs of Cromwell and his associates: I culated at once to stimulate curiosity, in paved the way to his usurpation: I even a mind not easily daunted. It desired an refined on vengeance: I solicited Crominterview at a particular time and place, well to let me be the executioner, to fill up

The Dying Wife.

AND I must die!

I must leave them now!

the measure of my guilt: the unhappy king knew, before the fatal blow, the man that was to inflict it. From that day my Inust pass away from the beautiful heart, soul has been a prey to distraction and re Where the roses bloom and the birds have birth, morse. I have been an exile, a voluntary Ere the rude world's blight o'er my spirit has blown, outcast, in Europe and Asia, near four-Ere the music of life has lost one tone; As the dew.d op swept from the aspern spray, score years. Heaven, as if to punish me With the summer's breath, I must pass away. with severer rigour, has prolonged my ex- The maiden laughs in the sunny glade! istence beyond the ordinary term of na-Ah why doth she laugh? Her joys must fade. ture. This casket is the only remains of All that is dearest to her, are mine, All that's brightest, on me now shine: my fortune. I came here to end my There's joy for me still in the lemon-leav'd bower, wretched days: I had heard of your dis- Where the mocking bird sits, in the hushed night hour: grace at court, so much the reverse of There's joy for me stiil in the festal throng, In the mazy dance, and the sparkling song; what your virtues merited; and I was de- There's flush in my check, a light in mine eye, sirous, before I breathed my last, to con- And my heart beats warm-but I must die!' tribute thus to your welfare. All the retarn I ask is, that you leave me to my I must pass from the home of my childhood's mirth, wretched fate, and shed a tear to the ine-And my place shall be mourned by my father's hearth, mory of one, whose long, long repentance, His hair is white and his eye is dimI hope, may at last expiate his crime.' And who shall now speak of the glad earth to him? Lord S. earnestly pressed his hoary au: The olden lay that he loved to hear? And who shall now pour on his time-dulled ear, cestor to retire with him to Scotland, and He will sit and pine in his dwelling lone, there to live, for the remainder of his days, For I was his all, and I shall be gone. under a ficticious name. He long with. There is one on my heart hath a tenderer claim! stood all these entreaties; but wearied on his faithful breast when my head is laid, I have taught my soft child to liso his name; out, at length, by importunity, he consent- I forget I am dying-my pain is stayed. ed, or rather seemed to consent. The next I trust to his words, as on hope he dwells, day, however, when his lordship returned, But the pale lip mocks what the fond heart tells: he found that his repentant great grandfather had quitted the spot; and, notwithstanding all the researches that were made, his fate remains a mystery to this day.

The cold drops stand on his manly brow,-
Oh God! must I leave-must I leave him now?

I

I will come again!

will come again, in the twilight gloom, When the sad wind wails o'er my lowly tomb; When the shades in the bower and the star in the sky The early loved scenes will I wander by; WOMAN.-'I have always remarked,' For they shall laugh on, though my smile be away: I will pass by the hall of the glad and gay, says the celebrated traveller Ledyard, Where the aged man weeps, my breath shall be there, that women in all countries are civil, obli- I will come to my child at her young-voiced prayer; When lovely she neels by her father's side, ging, tender, and humanc. To a woman, His gaze resting on her, his darling and pride. whether civilized or savage, I never ad- With a dark'ning shade his brow be crossed, dressed myself in the 'anguage of decency As his thoughts are afar with the loved one lost; and friendship, without receiving a decent will live in her form, I will speak in her eye, I will steal from his lip the half breathed sigh; and friendly answer. With man, it has with her silvery voice, will I sootl.e his pain, often been otherwise. In wandering over I will whisper in his heart, “I ain come again!" the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark; through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland; rude and churlish Finland, unprinci

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WOMAN.-BY POLLOCK.

pled Russia; and the wide spread regions. Daughter of beauty! choice being made! of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, Much praised, much blamed, much loved; but fairer cold, wet, or sick, the women have ever Thin aught beheld, than aught imagined else; been friendly to me, and uniformly so; and to add to this virtue (so worthy the appellation of benevolence), these actions 'have been performed in so free and kind a manner,that if I was dry, I drakn the sweetest draught; and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.'

Fairest, and dearer than all else most dear;
light and darksome wilderness! to Time
As stars to night, whose cyes were spells that held
The passenger forgetful of his way:
Whose smiles were hope, whose actions perfect grace
Whose love, the solace, glory, and delight
When found, sufficient bliss! when lost, despair!
Stars of creation! images of love!"

Of man,

his boast, his riches, his renown;

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