Overpowered With Joy, She Rode
Behind Him Back To The City, And Left Him On Nearing Her Home; But, To
Her Horror, She Spied Dodging Her Footsteps Her Arch Enemy The
Intendant, And Fell Down In A Species Of Fit, Which Turned Out To Be
Catalepsy.
This furnishes, of course, a very moving tableau.
The
fair girl - -supposed to be dead - -was laid out in her shroud, when
Raoul, during the confusion of that terrible day for French Rule, the
13th September, calling to see her, finds her a corpse just ready for
interment. Fortunately for the heroine, a bombshell forgotten in the
yard, all at once and in the nick of time igniting, explodes,
shattering the tenement in fragments. The concussion recalls Mdlle. de
Rochebrune to life; a happy marriage soon after ensues. The chief
character in the novel, the Intendant sails shortly after for France,
where he was imprisoned, as history states, in the Bastile, during
fifteen months, and his ill-gotten gains confiscated. All this, with
the exception of Mdlle. de Rochebrune's career, is strictly
historical."
THE FALLS OF THE CHAUDIERE.
A tourist of a cultured mind and familiar with classic lore, standing on
the lofty brow of the Chaudiere, might, without any peculiar flights of
imagination, fancy he beholds around him a solitary dell of that lovely
TEMPE immortalized in song:
"Est nemos Haemoniae, praerupta quod undique claudit
Silva; vocant Tempe; per quae Peneus ab imo
Effusus Pindo, spumosis volvitur undis,
Dejectuque gravi tenues agitantia fumos
Nubila conducit, sommasque aspergine silvas
Impluit, et sonitu plus quam vicina fatigat."
Ovid Met.
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