| Show the mysterious wedding TOWARD tho the end cod of tho the year yam ISH IS I 1 that yem c so DO in raman history blistery theio ri vel near a weal wealthy tily noble man whose hospitality find generosity bad made him favorably known in all ali that every day hu his in neighbors cybok ceo camo to air lid his house some flomo to cat slid ud d drink and ad bolh era cre to see his bla daug liter marie whose polo palo anti and melancholy but beautiful figure and quiet qu let and goutro virtues virt nes won iron their IOTO and question she WM was just jnet t can coara tin of am and was known to bo be the KO heiress artas to lo ll 11 largo stoic cicato and consequently moro more than one buo gentleman thought of hor bar for his son eon marlo maria hold had read poetry and ro mancen and by those these had bad been early initiated into the IOTO chobad she had lent ant a roady cur car to the gallant words at a young ensign of the russian army anny who he bad been a few days with his hia family in tho the no gabor I 1 oad ho he went away however without confessing hu his lovo love publicly butcho but tho vigilant parents remarking this thia mutual anclin allan treated re led tho the young officer va ith scover vy ity A and d f orbano matio mario ever to think of lo 10 darryld him Illo hile the two lovora over noto to each 0 that other and bad frequent to fa the forest of fir trees near the votes ruina of na an no an clent cleat chapel there accusing tho the tiger nor of destiny they an anoro are to each othor other eternal lovo love and fidelity and au all manner of pro forthe for tho future their kettere and their con conversations led there them nt at length to a resolution oiL 11 As wo cannot live each other they said ond and no orael cruel fate am to obstruct abstract oar car bap we roast must ourselves surmount the ill a obstacles M abit at oppose us it it waa IIA tho the young officer vi fl ho he first expressed thia thas thought and and marle mario w with tb her romantic mantlo ro imagination immedi cotely t accepted it abo winter had just opened tho the tons in in tho the forest could no longer talfe take place but their correspondence only be carao came the more active la each letter vladlmir entreated his sweetheart to abandon herself to him and allow adlow their union to bo be consecrated by ft secret marriage they would pass pasa some timo time in retirement and then would return and oart themselves at the fet feet of her parents ft ho he moved without doubt by such choh constancy would say ray to tho the young couple children so pardon you wine to our firms I 1 11 mario accepted ibis project sho she yet t hesitated to put it la in execution at laneth her lover laver proposed a plan of alope mcnut which she oho adopted ou on a certain day she aho was to illness and retire to her chamar at the hour belie of supper sapper her chambermaid chamber maid was wa in the secret they w were to both to descend a staircase e leading into tho the pardon garden at tho the gato gate of which they would find a sledge which would toko take them to tho the church charob of dochad mt aloo othero hero wladimar would await thorn them all tho n A night ight preceding tho the decisive day maria did not sloop she ebo prepared bu tag gago tier her ward roDO her jewels then idle bhe A long letter io to her mother and another to ono one of her sho she bado them adieu in tho the most terms the step she bb was taking by the violence of her passion pa aslon and fin finished fished by auar ini tn them that the moment when she abo could come boroo and cast herself at their feet red and obtain their pardon bidd bo be tho the happiest hap pleat per period old of her lifo thus theao letters scaled oho ahe threw herself upon tho the bod bell and was waa soon wrapped iu in sloop but her slumbers elamL cra were more troubled blod with frightful dreama it cuned to hor bar that whoa when she abo departed from rare tho the church her father seized tier her in wrath and hurlda hor bar into a terrible abyss then her betrothed stood before hur her all all IN pale IQ arid and bloody and entreated her with a Y g voice toot not to forsake him in tho the morning she bh rosel rose balor than urual and really ill idl her parents questioned bor bar with tender solicitude and their affectionate anxiety tont rent her heart she alto blurted to tranquillize thorn them and appear gal coy but could not succeed the important even ing arrived sho she WM was cruelly oppressed with lith the thought that thin was the I 1 list t lay day adie ws was to pan under tho the paternal roof ihen han supper was served she abo announced nou noun ced acca with It trembling voice illness forced hor her to retire and wilbod her parents good nigh they embraced he her 1 I os was their ex cu i and gave her th air evi obe bo arrived armed in her bor own apartment opar lmont she bho throw herself upon a cona coach and gave herbolt up to tho the conflicting emotions alch agitated her lice chambor timid prayed prated her to bo be calm cable and take conrado all was ready lit la ono little halt half hour mano mane nas naji to leave the homo home of hor bar youth and bill bid adieu to the peace and serenity nily of ft a virgin life directly dito to ilyo a dreadful tempest of snow burst buret upon tho litile billis anti and roared abro through ugh tho the im nuby broring for tho the wind 9 growled and made tho the doors and window A B of tho the castle tremble vs ra though they had listen been isaken by a bring mario was superstitious and thought this an evl cv soon all aris in tho haaso in ili a cloak and followed by her wrape mald mano alone descended into chamber the bad abated no the fuller lance and she bho 10 of 01 ita AUS vio TIO of tho the gard ith difficulty tho the thoro there the horl horne ted tj riu in tho the sledge blodge I 1 wui stamped M ith la im bl averting with cold mail inan afka lip asp patience siti elies imd and tho the coach aeu 0 d tile tho r r tag tho ladles ladies to mend jur juis and drove rapidly lots toward ard let lct a 0 ff ar y a now leave them to pursue their 0 o and sea vv what bat has become of tho the jog g cariati carig AM Ti bad been actively engaged durion the tha whole day in making hu his grepo prepo rat ionis first with ilo tho priest to arrango Lr the ceremony tero moDy of to and thon then with his hie neighbors to invite them to the tb church after having sent bent bid hl fat faithful thu michel mth ith his bid sledge to wait for lu his siano at tho the garden guto gato he bo took a lighter 01 ODO drawn by ono borso bonio and drove toward madrano hero JD in a fow few hours boura lio to was wan to meet bin bill bride ile iio know knew tho the way well and thought he bo would roach there in twenty but bab scarcely bad he bo the ibo open country than the storm burst burat in ILL its ita enry and clouds of bid everything from ILI lib view la in na act the road as covered with snow the horizon was enveloped with a gamble vail through which lu bo could distinguish dolther heaven nor earth perceived that he bo had bad lost loat lis hl way and nought alight to return but his bla borso bono full foil from one to an other and at every moment the clodgio wan wag overturned Althou although Kh he bo hall boon been moro thau than a balf hour on hla hie journey tho the young officer held bud not yot yet reached the dorcet of ho he continued Us LIM route root through tin in open field the storm increased in violence tho the sky became moro more gloomy and threatening and hla his jaded botio could bo be urged forward whitt what thou then was but dismay u ahou hall he L huud found lc he had again taken a false lit he paused collected sought fought to collect cohoot his thoughts and decided deci dod lit at built that he ha ought to tura bim to the right llo led continued thug journey full two hours houn fehrn A bon A at t some co a dark liuo line t aich told him ho waa f the furest god cod bo be praised said raid tho the voting man loan im not for from tho the end odny of my journey and he nd vinced along the edge of the iho u to find and tho the true direction sonic some time titter ho be emerged flow this extensive forest forc fit but ho he looked in villa lor for the iho villio of Dail adrino it was nearly midnight ho he wait wun ilk despair and wept in ilia bittern essof hm disappointment meanwhile ahe boin past the clouds tho the beav hicov cn became be aiTio clear and tho the young officer iliin a largo large covered with now mow jn in tio on midst of bich arose a mi bablo bam itt ILL of 0 four or aho no ile II 11 tho the ono aid lulled nc too window cow A after artt an old 11 ina arith it h a white head and inquired ilin ired his bin 1 ant am 1 I 1 far from I 1 11 DO dochard Do chadd 0 YM A 3 aca le ia li it for fat from here beret 11 conot no acs ot far about ton verat at these words words wadimir Mir undo made a 9 tarm of despair null nod remained Moti onlo ax a man thunderstruck thunder struck and trO do you conio come from f it asked tho the old roan wilmont without replying to ibis line xilon eidl ienir asked if he bo could furnish a gnido to io bhoj she huo him the way wint wait tho the old nian MOM I 1 and I 1 will good my son on 11 the door opened and it a aoun ninn man rp A pealed holba li oldine in bla haunt a 1 kick with chich ho felt b abts Is way I 1 through b ax it the what 13 1 l it chidi mir it Is nearly day wax tho the reply of the dimir wax wan dumb with grief nud and did appointment when thoy they arrived nt at the ba blush ugh of day was upon tho the eastern sky baky and tho the fur air resound with the crowing of tbt oke tho the wild closed tho the young you dg after pa ing his hii buldo ran to the he bodao 0 of f tho the priest list hat news did he learn I 1 but I 1 lot at us return to tho the tats tor of castrado wo and we abat bat ja Is ped paa sing blue la the morning as tho the breakfast break fart was served tho the father of mario sent a domes t tio 0 to 10 he her r chun bor to being news of her it health til bho he soon oon re returned turnell to announce that maria had bad slept badly load hue but found herself letter now co and gouid would como come down A moment after idie abc up panted now how aro are you ray my child I 1 amid tho the fit fa the r I 1 am letter m hirell mano mane that evening mane fell 17 in ill the physician who wait waa called la in limit hnata declared that abo he bad a dance favor and for fifteen days day sh ehe liy ay a LI tho roux a door oi of the tomb no p r in the iho house know of tho the resolution tic she tu bad taken to chopo with her lover over tho letters she obo had burned bunted tho the had been disc discreet and also alao the priest and witnessed wilDee aca of wadimir mir nod and these for very good the secret wim wait thus thas faithfully kept by moro more than half a dozen accomplices but morlo marie betrayed it 16 herself la in bar delirium she said linage to that her mother believed hot boi profoundly in love IOTO with and at t tributes iri tri buted to this unfortunate attachment the of her beloved daughter she ho to her husband and the they Y decided to allow marie if she recovered t to 0 have haro her wish and thought that after nil all tho the poverty of her be loica IQ waa w ad not a very con aldern hlo hie vice or a actions obstacle to their union onion full fail of this thought when they saw aw mario convalescent they wrote to Ma ladimir dimir to inform him hini that they con denied to ua ids with their daughter but abat was their surprise on receiving from urn lim an incomprehensible letter vili crom ho he said baldt that ho he would saver rover again enter their house and that bi his j only hope WM was to dio din I 1 some days after they learned that ho he had ball departed for tho the army this wim wait in ism a I 1 long 0 n 9 timo time they did not data to reveal this n news ew 5 to their she bencic nover never mentioned his name but ono day she eho raw I 1 it among tho the lamca of those who he had bad distinguished themselves at tho the battlo battle of borodino borodine Bo and v bo be had been severely wounded on ing tho the details idle fainted somo some time utter after her father died leav her it ft large fortune which however could not console coo flolo her for he her loss load with her bor mother she abandoned if be homo home which recalled to them remembrances so BO painful and into another province thera her youth and fortuno fortune aft attracted now suitors lot but olin bho gave them no be bora pa win dimir was bend but his hia memory was mead for movie we have said that mario bic ing hir her WM was surrounded with suitors but these were soon eoon eclipsed by n now ono colonel of lessard named borrow who he here boro the of st george in ilia hi button hole mil and was vaa about twenty six years of ago marie maria treated him with particular distinction near him bho was nw neither silent nor reserved as 04 witt with abbo 1 nil I oth era en it would bo be unjust to say eay that with him she eha indulged in ili barmin was waa really nil lux man endowed with wilh precisely those qualities it aich ore are the most moat pleasing to women ilia 1118 conduct toward mane was simple and without constraint but ai his eyes imd and soul seemed to follow nil all her movements and to dwell upon all liar warda what mario was not only the attracting conversation of the boung officer tug bis paleness hu his wounds it aoa bla Bilo sho could not conceal from herself that this man pleaded her much boj and with willi hla his experience ho he could not but see bee the he h nod had mado made upon her heart beart ully VI by therefore did ho he not nob throw himself nt at her feet and his love IOTO what motive restrain ed him f was this that timidity inseparable from trao love or the coquetry of duful gallantry after afar long she said bald that ruch reserve could bo be attributed only to timi timidity lity and resolved to encourage cuco iun h un ly her advance ad vanoe she bho wan wad successful burmin become more and more erious Br ious aud and lis hu dark cyca were fixed axed upon mano diane with ruch mich bervi intensity that the decisive dec laivo 1 not bo be far off ono day u ahou hen lt cou u hitting ajolo in her caw r mother catered end and inquired for boor burmin in tho the garden eardon farjo she w Is burmin found I 1 oil ad too the mother baroa reading or ir icabod by ft a little manoo aate ko ako a truo true heroine of to ro tween th tt A fewa w worda ordA bo active rj w tho the earl the tan not flot aton la in order to am aimse tho ilia of k and foto force him to tin fio explanation h not owing bow to K lis ordinary aid uda tudo burela declared to morie marie that ba h had for or a ion long time sought bought an am to bo open to her f hie ubeart heart marle closed lor bor matcher book it and ot down her cuoi I 1 1 I allow iced you said Dur dorrain rain 1 I lovo love you with pas paa glen I 1 lao he a it great imprudence lu in allowing myself to acquire tho the sweet babit of seeing and hearing hearing you evad a day Y now ican I 1 ciui iio a longer tasi tea 4 at ray my tin Y your remembrance our adored imago will bo be tho the torment and the joy of my life thera re maing for or mo me now dow a great duty to fulfil fulfill I 1 must reveal to you a fatal secret which bich established litween ix us ua ali impal blo bin barier marie mane looked at him with a stupefied tile air 1 61 I am merri cd resumed 41 havo have bean married three tarco but do not know aho vho he in ii my in ifo alio ALA IN ie or w m beaber I 1 shrill evor ever see eo her bar num J what do yon PAT BAT cried maria lario fi n r 1 continue I 1 beseech you it at the iho beginning of tho the year 1812 aid il eurmin I 1 WM was on my woy way to jom join tho the craty at wil wilna arriving ono evening try into tit nt tho the relay I 1 commanded the bursts to bo be changed immediately at tho the mine time |
