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MA I'THEV \V F.RKT’I
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vi -ts- one ors said Pickett, given to
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r ».tvan for tweotv dollars payable *o
i IV. :’i one note on W-ilham Johnson
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• . ffisnd, so that 1 can get
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• QS..PH M HARPER.
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\\ r -LL be paid, by the undersigned, for the
vs apprehension of
John Step *£* Solomon Step,
who murdered MARTIN FRALEY, sen- on the
th October, inst near Wolf's Ferry, in Harden
•minty, Tenn.
HN STEP is about 26 years of age, 5 feet
9 inches high, dark complexion, dark eyes,
k hair, iuclinedto curl, and very low forehead.
- ue middle joint of the fore-bnger of his light
hand is considarably enlarged, occasioned, it is
supposed, by a hurt.
SOLOMON STEP is about 23 or 24 years of
age, 5 feet Ll inches high, stout built, a little in
clined to be stoop shouldered, dark complexion,
dark ey- lark ha , . lined to curl, and very
\;h 'heck bones. The bone* of his right hand
- ' een broken hear the middle of the palm,
-.on a considerable ridge on the back of
*:i- har'd.
The :-':»'•••• i nerlv resided in the Cherokee
cauntr? ,i j i. . and it •« thought they will
cither make ihei. way back to Georgia or strike
for Texas.
The above reward will be paid on their delivery
in Harden countv. Ten. or a proportionable re
■ward for either.
SALLY FRALEY.
HENDERSON G. FRALEY.
JACKSON FRALEY,
SAMUEL LENOX.
October 29 3£ tft
From the Southern Literary .Messenger.
THE CURSE OF THE FORSAKEN.
Go! and whei. o'er thy faithless heart,
Thou traitor to thy vows and me,
Joy dash -, with i phantom's art,
Like h Jitniups on a ra-itig Sea—
-I’iie . ;ai an! cai-t a buriiitigthought
‘*a ti t •••Hose wrong thy doom have wrought.
Forgive thee! yes! who stoops to hate
! ije viper that infest h:, path ?
its venom may oui v-ias dil ate,
Bur cannot .iivei' o :r sou is to wrath ;
Thou wort the vq or to my re t
ihy lhng—not malice— goadr my breast.
i ive thee! yes! but never can
>! n seif, for y ielding trust
0“ . whos" seuibhin •* “as of man,
L'. t <‘t .vi - sj-. uwas of dust;
li i ; u n ft it tall,
lin >■.'-i .ii“ wod to tue cup ot gall.
Forget the” 1 would I could forget!
Ala®, oblivion has no stream,
EKe storied Lethe, whereto wet
The heart, and it from shame redeem:
It is, when woman ouce lias fell.
Her curse to need no after hell.
But. thanks to memory’s marid’ning torch,
The flame that mocks rnewi»b the past
Can pierce the future's misty porch.
And tells a doom for the at last;
While God upholds in Heaven hissway.
Sin stalks not here a thornless way.
Go ! 6cek oblivion’s iron hand,
On earth's remote a. shore—-in vain!
Forever wilt thou bear the brand
That scared the h; ::r* and brow of Cain:
But (Jain s remorse run i >v i l ow
The soul of one so hard a-. -;>ou.
1 will not die—but cherish life, 'tl
As vis' ■!. watched their holy flame,
Till it shall - i■ tlk y frenzied strife
Jo >c” i me buried in thy shame :
Then sink- twill be the sting of hell
That we together there must dwell.
r„ t. B. W. IE
J-\rrrr. H, .. / -
Jtikclch lioa- 1 fC *.
A SB3TIMF.3T4I. S 1 ■
‘ There is no faith in Woman I exel.otr.; and
to >:v.v t.e othei . lining, and I repeated it
thrice w»tii increasing entphasi*
.‘There in * -m -i; Hr, « hat woman
bas taught you to thins, mi : ' -:n ' • soft voice
near me.
l' t irted, ior i had most rtnconscioiisiy been
•.[ ; tny thoughts aloud, while leaning on trie
?,icU «»t my cousin Agatha's couch, with my eyes
resting outlie sheet ot nus.c paper which lay
befcie her. 1 coloured as ”er glauce met mine.
"Nay—is it not tv*- ? ’ saio i.
"Nay,” she repeate i —"I will not he a:iswere<
by a nay ! —cousin !'■ ury ■ ’
"But mv dear cousin- my deal Agatha"—
c* <?d 1, "you arc a woman, and a beautiful wo
nian -■ vou can be no judge."
1 rosin:' 1 ‘ hiiit it,” said Agatha sini
u :v to do with either my
■v.vr mhood, y n- U went f”
"The»e von may answer it vourseif —what wo
lKin can judge ot her sex’s failings ' what beau
tiful woman cmi ti rai i iirly by a -'ste! beauty ?'
"Is this all!" r<mi!»-i sh-, "Then you htve
learned to libei us merely from tim cant ol tiie
day
"It'iij the mt of ages," paid T
’"Surely not!- ;h van? o* tlm arf ess and the
ntfmeauin- ■ k >it t " -v. -r,- t”•• *■ •-■ < heart and
head to think vim f H no, nv dear cousin,
do not repeat it -s . o? .i ?• tst and truth
m woman.’
"Agatha,” said i, ."why have you never mar
ried ?”
"Harry,” returned she. wV * ' •« : 'i
opinion of our sex ’
"Pshaw! but with y< »r beauty, and your wit,
and your fortune and cousequ r,e
"Tell me—why do v i v.ih us?"—
"Hairy,” continued my c>, . • iteirupting me
with more earnestness,."we mu • not let our own
individual disappointum-;** disgust ue with the
world at large—sean h -.veil, and vo shall discover
our - :>•-,<i< -t us tie content though
wo n-ot but one taith* nhe irt amidst a crowd of
treach»rv.”
“ \rid tiow shall we find it?” Where shall we
meet with this faithud heart rn woman ? No.
Agatha,” cried ?, you mistake the character of
woman—you to not know her—you cannot know
her—you. who must always be every way above
the rest of your sex, tnd as different as inimita
ble!”
She was silent, she was even grave for a m >-
merit or two, and the shade ot thought in the ex
pression of her bland and beautiful countenance
seemed almost as if it grew into sadness. She
looked at me with a smile,” said she, "tell nm
your history? you have been unfortunate;” and
she pointed with her small and snow white hand
to the vacant seat beside her on the sofa.
Titer” was a gentleness, a delicacy, and a ten
deruess in mv cousin Agatha’s disposition w hich
gave a charm to her slightest action. It was a
i gracefulness >f her character which seemed to
• have insured the gracefulness of her person
and everv motion though it was a something
beyond grac” which made her tone of feeling,
both in gaiety and sorrow, irresistible. I seated
myself beside her on the sola, and did as she bid
me. "I have been in love,” said I, ‘‘it is my
| whole history .”
FLORENCE, GA. MONDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1338.
•‘And what then ?” she inquired, “was your
. mistress unfaithful ?”
"1 fcave told you all in one word—woman and
infidelity so touetEer!” I paused for some min
utes, and wlieu I spoke again I had obtained more
self-possession.
"When i first went abroad," said I, "I spent
some time at Florence. The fashionable lounge
was the picture-gallery and there was 1 a daily
visiter; buts went thither really to gratify my
passion for p rintings, and not to gaze, and be gazed
at by the company. Uue m .ruing while 1 was
standing a® usual before my favourite study, I was
startled bv someone tapping me lightly on the
shoulder, 1 suddenly turned round—it was a lady,
and one of the most beautiful of earth’s crea
tures; but her look and attitude were even more
striking than her countenance and figure. She
was, in a manner, stealing a glauce into my face,
with such a curiosity, and interest, and earnest
ness, blended with such a fanciful coqu try and
intelligence in her expression as amazed me.—
She enjoyed my surprise and admiration for about
half a second,‘and then w trh the most natural negli
gence in the w orld,pointed gracefully with the hand
which still rested on my arm, to the ground, it was
her hatidkeichief that "had fallen at my feet, and 1
instantly stooped, and raised it. Sbo stretched
out her hand to receive it. befors 1 had even time
to present it to h i, nodded her head half with
the air of a pi a<ed child, half with the air of a
woman of f.i.ihion, and then folding her arms in
her drapery round her, resumed her con.etnpla
tton of tli« painting before us, which this little
accident seemed to have disturbed. I stood .vith
my eyes fastened on her, woydenng who this en
thralling creature could tie. She had that deci
ded air or fashion which there is no mistaking,
a?m a certain an much superior to it ; but theie
was a something so whimsical in her style of dress,
and in her style of appearence altogether, to make
me feel uncertain w h it to think of her
“Just at 1 was looking round to inquire her
name of some bystander, she turned and addres
sed me . : forget now what it was she said tome,
- •inerlii: about my favourite painting, or my
, o, :.ii fondness for pictures whatever it might
be. i was so much a novice in fashion as to feel
uncomfortable at. her speaking to mo. i remem
ber. however, that though her words were select,
h* r manner struck me as commonplace , she,
moreover, seemed to me a coquette, ami 1 imme
diately concluded that she must be marked by ah
the siliness of heij*;las.s In appearance she might
have been about two or three-and twenty, but 1
suspect she was more, perhaps from my own in
ex oi fence, for she struck me as being used to the
- v i 1 Id Tr was evident that site was
ire of r •an miration which sue oau >• •
that sip aid • xpneted it, > f therefore pleased
win: it, anJ meant to exe tea little more. No
■ ; ---.it , !::••», {.• -bably no one but such a boy
a>: i wm>id have been seized with these reflec
tions at the moment that she was soliciting tny at
tention; but very voung men and young men unac
customed to genera? society, are naturally more
alive to what is real and what is affected in char
ter »in those of older and better acquaintance
withs but whose very acquaintance has
served to trammel them into its manoeuvres and
intric aeies.
"She turned away after some minutes, and
joined her party a few paces off. My eye followed
them as they moved up the gallety ; she shame
always conspicuous among the throng of gentle
men who gathered as she went, around her. in
clr.--ur.ua numbers, while now pausing for a se
cond in a picturesque attitude to examine a pain
ting—now breaking on my ear in tones of exag
gerated feeling either of horror orofcctasv —now
partaking with faint effort in the cat usl vivacity ot
her attending bevy, or leading with startling
violence a sudden laugh- I believe 1 bad just
then a rage for simplicity tor ever.- her : harms
disgusted me. She was an Eng" ‘ * >m*n too,
and had just been commenting, perhaps with un
grateful sarcasm, o i the freedom of Florentine
manners. At the upper end of the gallery I lost
sight of her, and wh* • ’ looked around me I
found that the crowd had followed her—there
was not a creature near me
“Do you not know her ?' said someone whom
? had appioache lon purpns u> question. "It is
the honourable Mrs. Beauvillier.s, the celebrated
Mrs. Beauviliers, she was the greatest beauty of
the day- or of any day, and she never comes here
vithout making a sensation, by tlie witty, she
means to have you in her train l fancy, for I
saw her cast her eyes on you the moment she en
tered the room.”
•‘lt is incredible how even the turn of a phrase
-an effect us. These few last words had realized
ail my own thoughts with regard to Mrs. Beau
villiers.
“What then,” said I, “she’s a coquette ?”
"By no means,” cried the other, "only a little
addicted to Platonic love and fashionable ad
mirers. She lias us a!! fast here, we all wear her
| colours. Though, par parenthe.se, 1 thought her
| a little gone by this morning, these beauties never
: know when to give them up.”
"Come,” said he. "I’ll introduce you.
"Pardon me,” answered f, “1 know her per
fectlv already.”
"I saw Mr.s. Beauvilliers again, it was at a ball
! that very evening. She had just withdrawn a
| little out of th” circle of waltzers, and was leaning
| against a pillar changing her white satin slippers.
On” gentleman stood beside her husied in receiv
ing the discard’d pair; another proffered the
fresh ones; and the third, her fortune partner,
with one knee on the ground, supported her deli
cate feet by turns on the other and fastened the
sandels.
“How old is she?” asked I, for I felt quite a
curiosity to discover,
“Lord,” answered the person next me. "I
have known her culling heart i.he-m fifty years !”
"She could not be fifty, though she had cer
tainly worn better than anv person l know : even
when near I could not have supposed h p r past
: thirtv.
“I can scarcely say how much I dislike this
i discription of character. It revolted agaiust all
my notions of feminine propriety ; that sensitive
dignity of woman’s peculiar nature! It offended
all mv most respectable feeliugs towards the sex,
and 1 remember I stood aloof during the eveumg
troiu Mrs. Beauvilliers, boyishly abashed at her
frivolous familiarity of manners. 1 left Florence
soon after, but carried some of her impressions
along with me. She spoiled me for the uext
twelvemonth. I had never before beeu vain of
my personal qualifications, but it was not easy to
forget that they had not been absolutely unattrac
tnve. This was all that dwelt with me. and some
years of after life passed on the comment, though
they may have habituated me to the looseness of
its and ‘coruni, have never destroyed my esteem for
all that is beautiful in purity !”
I stopped for J felt that I was considerably agi
tated and my silence was of some duration.
"You will proceed Harry ?” said my cousin
gently, "for your story is both interesting aud in
structive.”
"Yes,” auswered I, "but it is somewhat diffi
cult ' and i still hesitated. "You should have
seen her.” 1 exclaimed at length, abruptly. "Y'ou
should’have known her, though she was scarcely
handsome ! will only half uauie herto you, Agatha,
as I have named her to her sell in the last days of
our acquaintance—Gabrieila,”
"It is just about three years since we first met;
I remember it well, for even then it was to me a
circumstance of importance. 1 was iudroduced
to her iu a private concert room just as her car
riage was announced—she had beeu *taudiug near
the door-way, and 1 wa« the last peiaou tlic Cuned
to as she left tli* room. I remember it was near
, the end of the season. She was the fashion iu
London, but I had never admired her. I had
heard her talked of as beautiful, but I had never
tiiou -lit her so. She was striking, but it was au
air of fashion more than either beauty or grace iu
tier appearance. I 1-Led her reception of me; I
had always allowed her to be a fine wourau, and I
found something extremely agreeable iu her
countenance when she spoke, and extreme good
ature in her general mauner. She rather inter
ested me than otherwise, though ehe had only
iust stayed to receive my bow, and observe to me,
* that she was going,” as she went out
‘‘•She had quitted town for the country before I
could see her again, aud not long alter 1 followed
her thither. 1 forgst now who it was that invited
me ; l think it was some connexion of the family.
•*ho«e employment was to furnish the table with
guests, md the guests witii society. Gabriella’s
husband was o* a rude description oi men; he
v i- seldom to be seen in the house but at dinner,
an ) at dinner he i ked to ha.e plenty of people to
led society, at table they had his society, but other
wise these general chance k,tidof guests were but
little attended to. I should scarcely have availed
myself, however, of this manner of admittance to
hospitality, had I not beeu rather forced into cal
lin'’ on them on my accidental meeting some of
the party in the neighbourhood.
“Agatha.” cried I, "I scarcely know why I re
peat these details, for it is uueacy for me to recall
the memory of our first acquaintance.
“If you had known her you would have par
doned the madness of my love—had you known
Gabrieila you would have wept for the cruelty of
her caprice ! Her spirit of coquetry was indeed
untamed, untameable. She pursued her victim
with unweared skill; flung wbh captivating ingen
uity, her whole heart into his service ; wouud her
grateful toils around his existeuce, and urged on
with irresistible persuasion the tortures of that
grief which she contemplated with remorseless
m,-1 insatiable ambition. How 1 tried to leave
her—how I tried to escape the influence of her
fascinations, it seems of littls purpose to tell. I
did not ieave her, and Gabriella’s smiles returned.
Tie ould weep too; at times I have seen a start
ling tear bedew her cheek. But why should I
instruct you in ail the arts and all the expedients
of tier most reprehensible coqutery; it was as
restless as extravagant. She b*d probably never
loved her husband, and esteem wts what she could
be«tow on none. She was incapable of friend
ship: her heart hid been framed to a sentiment
she had no steadiness in her nature to persevere
in her affections. Her husband was little calcu
lated to excite either, and to Gabrieila he was
entirely unsuited. They seldom met, but no
appearence of unharmony subsisted between
them. I have known her consult him on a matter
of duty, and him leave to her the choice of in
scriptions on his dog collars. He never inter
ferred with her, but he w*s sometimes glad to
have her look well when she sat at the bead of
his table.
"Her appearance had never been the lure which
attracted me; and her appearence was then, in
mv opinion, by much, her least qualification.—
Y r et she possessed a large share of the essentials
which constitute beauty ; her outline of feature
was good, and her complexion must once have
been brilliant: at times it was still beautiful, for
Gabrieila was no longer quite what is called a very
young woman when I knew her.
"She had the address to turn this want of ad
miration to her person on my part, into her most
absolute attraction. Her charms consisted in her
undeviating amibility of manner ; in her apparent
forbearance of disposition, in her constant pro
priety of temper, in her implicit obedience to the
caprice of her admirer, and her seeming readiness
of obedience to any exertion of authority, from
the man whom she had received as her husband.
1 love to dwell on this part of her character; I
could cling to the thought that she might once
have deserved better; that she was not all that
she appeared to me when we last met and parted ;
a heartless, practiced, unblushing, and unprin
cipled coquette !
"We have periods of feeling when it requires
j but little to op n our eves to the real disposition
;of matters carried on around us; and once
! awakened, it ;* a«tnni*hing -how quick wcgioW
into wisdom. It must be always impossible in
the' after moments to trace the many, various,
j almost imperceptible accidents that may have oc-
V®l. I.—Ne. 35.
curred to bring us acquainted with the delusions
practiced on us—perhaps which we have ourselves
too readily iudulged. To you it may be difficult to
comprehend from how slight a circumstance my
impression of Gabrieila’* character were first set
tled into the more sober reflection* ou her be
haviour.
"1 had been staggered by sentiment, and it
seemed -.o me a profligate sentiment. We were
talkiug ou the freedom of Italian manners, inure
especially that of the women, aud she was expa
tiating on them with considerable eagerness. I
remember she used the words ‘the luxury of their
independence, their perf ct want of control, all
form—odious form !’ aud she threw her eyes up
to heaven as she spoke. She had beautiful‘eyes,
but tuis time their appeal seemed to me out of
place. She threw them on me, but they did not
move uie, aud she yielded her opinions as she al
ways did, only with less hesitation than was usual
with her, for me to be as usual satisfied with her
victory. I was peculiarly sensitive on this one
point—the delicacy of a woman's deportment;
and Gabrielia's manner had sometimes disturbed
me. 1 had sometimes wondered at her self-pos
siou, too, only that to m* she never was self-pos
sessed. She had ofteu turned off an uncomforta
ble sentence with a gay laugh, which lias covered
me with confusion and offeuce, and i have felt that
1 should yet been more at ease had she beeu
less so.,
"I was silent for some time after, and thought
ful, and Gabrieila tried to woo me into better com
pany. She was seldom unsuccessful, and in
soanilily »t grew into conversation again. One
or two of the rest of the company joined us and,
we gathered into a litle circle round her sofa.
"The discourse turned on maimers, but this
time it was on English manner*. A gentleman
present, and who, by the way, was rather a cele
brated traveller, j*st risen, or rising i«to fame and
fashiou, observed that iu no country in the world
did there exist such perfect domestic and conjugal
happiness as in England- —such au entire confi
dence betw eeu husband aud wife—such a perfect
union both of heart and of mind.
"Gabrieila assented cordially, and applauded
the feeling with warmth. I hacj turned away, and
when 1 looked again I found her eyes were ben6
upon the traveller.
"Wheie, iu what country,” pursued "do w*
find such and agreeable social intercourse to pre
vail btween a man and his wife. Even in tho
highest walk* of hfe, there is visible such au ex
quisite and charming familiarity. To take a fan
ciful view of the subject, for iu6tance, that one
circumstance of calling each other by the Chris
tian name, abbreviated as we hear it too, in every
nntuiblc »»•! At r «•» ril a a*' •*- - * ' * *
vuruuici. *
"Poor Mama!” exclaimed Gabrieila, “I re
member mama, always called poor papa, Beau!”
"Who was your mother?” i-aid I.
"Heavens!” cried she, "don’t you know?—
the Beautiful Beauvilliers—‘Labella Belissima,*
as she was called in Italy ! I was in mourning for
her when I first aaw you. Have you never seen
the beautiful miniature of mama in my room V *
“I have seen the original.” auswered I, "in th»
picture gallery at Florence.”
"Whether it was the tone of my voice, for I
felt that it was altered, or the expression of nay
countenance, for it was crimsoned to the temples",
that struck Gabrieila, 1 know not, but she changed
the conversation. For my part 1 had relapsed
into my silence, and I aunk away. Gabrieila the
daughter of Mrs. Beauvilliers.
“Why have you never told me that you had
been to Florence?” said she nest morning when
we were alone. "How odd! we must have been
there together, and we weie strangers!”
"I knew jo*r mother,” said I.
"Poor mamma! heavens! how beautiful she
must have been But did you absolutely know
her. I thought I had known the whole circle of
mama’s admirers.”
But why need I go on. It was perhaps, for
tunate forme that I could never separate the con
nection between M s Besuvilliera and Gabreilla.
The early impression c! her mother which had
been left so strongly on my mind, could not be
effaced by any recurrence to the daughter. I
could never think of Gabrieila without recalling
to my recollection Mrs. Beauviliers in the pic
ture gallery, or in the ball-room at Florence.—
Howsver disguised might be tbeir manner, their
conduct was too similar to bear comparison.—
From the suddeness with which the veil of niy
illusions fell from my ey es almost from that very
hour, it would seem now a.« if 1 had been influen
ced by prejudice. But no, it was Gabriella’s self
that it cast from me. True, my knowledge of her
mother’s character had given me an insight into
the character of the daughter. It had made me
think, and thought was destruction to Gabrieila.
Her behaviour could not bear investigation—her
character still less no. It was not the shock of
Mrs. Beauviliers as a mother that had disturbed
me, it was the dread of Mrs. Beauvilliers as a
model for too apt representation ; and what as the
folly of a foolish won:au would have passed without
other reproach, grew criminal in the more gifted
intellect cf her daughsr.
"Gabriella’s defence was powerless. The dream
which had wraped my senses gave way gradually
but quickly, as the imperfect light that had first
dawned on me broke into open day. Her strug
gles to retain her victim became only the more
reprehensible, her real grief at his escape only
the greater earnest of the 6elfis'n, frivolous vanity
which had induced his capture. Her powers of
complete self interest ;.nd indifference to all beside
were indeed wonderful! With a voice, a look,
a gesture, still pleading with well feigned motive
for clefay, she turned without a moment lost to
lament her failure, from the resolute departure of
the one lover, to play w ith unabated assiduity the
same game over again w ith another.
"My last glimpse of her, as my chaise rolled
rapidly awav showed her tnroinsr from on.
tranee door into the little walk that leads to her
flower-gardeu, leaning on the arm of the traveller.
"But to the end, mistress of her art, she has
left without 3 of h<* tjpwoj*hi*egk still