all his influence to recommend you to the King of Naples; and I doubt not, through his interest, and that of his Holiness, you will obtain some distinguished employment at the Court of that Prince, which will amply afford you the means of supporting your rank and dignity. No obstacle then can present itself to your marriage with Virginia, if I am, as I hope I shall be, able to persuade the Marquis to consent to it; at ail events, it cannot be retarded beyond the period fixed by her father. Thus," added the Cardinal, "the ohly misfortune Fate can have in store for you, will be that of waiting a few years for the consummation of the happiness you hoped to enjoy sooner. You must set out for Naples within eight days; prepare yourself for your departure. Write to Virginia, and assure her she possesses a friend in me who will not fail to watch over her interest, and who will neglect no opportunity of securing ner future happiness and your own. Eugenio seized his uncle's hand, and alternately pressed it to his lips and to his bosom. He endeavoured to speak, but the excess of his emotion deprivod him of the power. The Cardinal, after having given him a variety of instruction, relative to the station he was on the point of filling, dismised him, and hastened to the Cardinal Doria, in order to concert with him the necessary means of assuring the fertune of Eu. genio. It was soon known at Rome that the nephew of the Cardinal Minister was to be joined to the legation to Naples. It was, perhaps, the first instance of such an employment having been conferred on a layman. At first, every one expressed his astonishment; but soon the crowd of courtiers at the Palace of caprara increased; and Eugenio appeared more than ever the most interesting of youths, and was pronounced every way deserving the par-. ticular favour of the Pope. The Count Vizzani suddenly recollected that the air of Naples would be of great bene-fit to his health. He resolved to visit that city, accompanied by his daughter, and hastened to announce his plan to Eugenio, who appeared charmed at the idea of the amiable Rosalia's being at a place where he had no friend, nor any one to whom he could converse of his dear Virginia. Cardinal, returned from Torreginia. My vengance shall pur " Vecchia three days previous to the departure of Eugenio for Naples. The answer of the Marquis was positive; he persisted in his resolution, and assured the Cardinal of his perfect resignation to the orders of the Pope; bnt he added sue him to the utmost limits of the world!" "I can excuse," said the Cardinal, interrupting him, in a tone of severity, "the invol. untary gusts of a legitimate passion; but I will never toler that he could not suppose hisate, either in my nephew, or Holines would attempt to ravish from a father that authority which Nature and the laws gave him over his own child. concluded by briefly repeating what had been already expressed in the letter of the Marchioness; and protested that no consideration whatever should induce him to change his sentiments. auy one else, expressions and menaces which only indicate a disordered brain, and a disreHegard of the most sacred duties, productive, generally of the most dangerous errors, and oftentimes even of crimes."? Eugenio, confused at this reproof, cast down his eyes; it was the first time his uncle had addressed and thing like a reproach to him, but he felt the full force of it, and remain Eugenio, by the said express, received a letter from the Marquis, which announced to him the birth of a brother: heed expressed himself in terms of satisfaction at an event wcich seemed to have overwhelmed him with joy, but he mentioned not a word respecting Virginia. silent.-The Cardinal left him to his reflections, and retired to his study, giving orders that no one should be suffered to interrupt him. That same evening, and the following day, he spoke to Eugenio with his accustomed goodnes; but his countenance still preserved that austerity which it had assumed at his nephew's intemperate exclam "Well, my dear uncle, said Eugenio, "you see this man is inflexible ;-but let him tremble if, at the appointed period, he trifles with my feel ings, or seeks, by vain pretention with regard to his fatherces, to deprive me of my Vir-in-law. For The Lady's Miscellany. HISTORICUS. and pulled out his own box, in which there being none, he The History of Cyrello Pado-scraped the inside as if to find vano the noted sleep walker. A mind like Cyrillo's not naturally very strong, and never at rest, began, when he arrived at manhood, to become gloomy and desponding. In consequence of this turn of thinking, he resolved to leave the world and turn Carthusian, which is one of the most rigourous of all the religious orders in existance; it was however soon found that he spent the greatest part of the night in walking about, and that he undid in his sleep all the good actions for which tie had been celebrated by day. Leing carefully observed on one of these occasions, the following circumstance offered. One evening having fallen asleep in his cell, he continued immoveable for about the space of half an hour; then turning some he next very carefully put up his box again, and looking about, with seemingly great suspicion he buttoned up the place of his frock where he kept it. Then seating himself again, he continued for some time immoveable; but without any seeming cause flew into a most outrageous passion, in which he spared neither oaths nor execrations which so scandalized his brother Friars that they left him to execrate alone. But it had been well if poor Cyrillo had went no farther, nor driven his sleeping extrav agancies into guilt. One night he was perceived going very busily up to the Altar, and in a little beauset beneath to rummage with some degree of assiduity. It is supposed that he meant. about in the attitude of a listen-to steal the plate which was er, he laughed most immoder-usually deposited there, but ately at what he conjectured which had accidently been seut had been spoken; then snapoff the day before to be cleaned: ping his fingers to shew that he (To be Concluded next week.) did not value the speaker, he turned towards the next person and made a sign as if he wanted snuff; not being supplied, he seemed a little mortified, ON A LADY WHO SQUINTED. If ancient poets Argus prize, The subsequent Story of the OLD MAN and his Doc, cannot fail to interest the feelings, and will forcibly prove, that though Frenchmen, nationally considered as intrinsically savage, some individuais, of that nation, can feel and act like men. THE OLD MAN AND HIS DOG. A TALE BY M. MARMONTEL. "One evening when we were sitting at the foot of the bridge over the Marne, said Aristus, a man of the lower order of people, with grey hair, and a lame leg, and hardly able to get on with the help of a stick, passed before us, followed by a young water-spaniel, and said to the woman in whose company I was: Ladies, will you buy my dog? As each of them had her own, and as his was not of the kind women are fond of, they answered, they did not want one. refusal, softened however by all the respect due to the unfortunate.' "The old man stood for a moment motionless before me ; he cast on me a look of sadness, and left me discontented with myself. "As he walked slowly up the bridge, I had time to discover the cause of the confused reproach conveyed by his eyes, and repeated by my own heart. At the very same instant I recollected that my friend, the Count de Chad lost a dog he was very fond of: As I tho't the capacity of a water-spaniel was not inferior to the sagacity of the Siberian dog my friend had lost, I determined he should have it, and called back the old man. "What do you ask for your What you dog? said I. please,' said he. Here, Miss, it would be easy to make myself appear liberal, by embellishing the truth; but I rather chuse to confess that I was not very generous. I was not rich, and a piece of six livres was all I had about me at that mo "Then coming up to me, he said in a more pressing tone of intreaty: Do, Sir, buy my dog.? I would have bought it instantly,' said Juliet. This amiable movement ought, I must confess, Miss, to have preceded reflection; but kind-ment. I offered it to him; he ness is not so active a sentiment in every heart as it is in yours. My first word was a accepted it without any marks of repugnance, and said, when he received it, 'The dog is it fell into the water. Don't be afraid, Miss, the dog did not fall; it let its master put his garter round its neck, and I perceived that, while tying it, the old man's hand trembled. This I attributed to age. for his countenance, which I observed attentively, did not change. But when he had tied the knot, I saw him let his head fall upon his dog, and hiding his forehead in its rough hair, and with his mouth glewed to its body, he hung over it for some minutes mute and motionless. asleep on the road; and when he saw me suffering and forsaken, the poor beast pitied me, and comforted me with his caresses. 'He loved me so much, that I can do no less than love him. But all this signifies nothing, Sir, the dog is yours. And then he gave me the end of the garter he had tied round its neck. • You must suppose me very cruel, if you think me capable of depriving you of a faithful friend, and of the only one you have in the world.' He did not insist any longer; but he wanted to return me the miserable crown. I told him to keep the crown and the dog, and at last got the better of his resistance. Then I saw his knees bend. |