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Madeleine de Rouberval.

her mind, when the quick tramp of horses those on whose disu tion he had deterfeet broke in upon her reverie Through mined. It was not long before the feeble the openings of the forest she caught glimp-minded Louis became nothing more than ses of several horsemen, and as they ap-fan instrument in his hands, and the measproached nearer, one of them she knew toures necessary to effect his purposes were be Louis XIII. There was another too of pursued with an energy and steadiness the number whom she recognized, and the from which compassion towards the numesight of him sent the blood to her cheeks, rous victims whom he knew must be crushcausing them to glow with a richness ofed in his path, could not for a moment altint unrivalled by the opening rose bude lure him.' Before the banishment of the enwreathed with her hair, who, as the queen mother, the king at her request had King and his cortege were sweeping along granted Madeleine a short residence at Verunder the window, in order to gain the sailles, till her guardian, now in Spain, principal entrance of the chateau, fell back could determine whether to procure her in the rear of his companions and raised admission into the convent of Charlot, or his eyes to the window where she sat.-take her with him to that country. Altho' The other horsemen being now some pa- residing under the same roof, she had not, ces in advance, and trusting to the confu- as yet, even seen the all-powerful minister; sion and bustle resulting from the arrival but she knew, that if he did not condeof the King, he ventured to address her inscend to personally act the spy, he had a low but distinct voice. emissaries planted in every nook and cor"Your brother is in danger," said he.-ner of the kingdom, who appeared to pos"Name some place where you will meet sess an almost preternatural facility in deme tonight at eleven o'clock, and I will teeting and bringing to light whatever tell you more." might thwart his plans or in the slightest degree militate against their success.

She hesitated a moment, and then poirt ing to a cluster of trees, told him that she would meet him there.

"As you value your brother's life, do not fail," he replied, and spurring forward his horse he was again mingling with his comrades without having been missed.

The last sound of the clock, as it struck the hour of eleven, was still reverberating through the dim aisles of the forest, as Madeleine groped her way to a postern, which opened near the spot she had indicated to Devigne. She lingered a moment at the threshold and raised her eyes to the heavens. The moon shone beautifully clear, throwing a shower of radiance over an open space near the chateau. This she quickly passed to a place darkened by the shadows of the trees, and soon gained the appointed spot where Devigne was already awaiting her.

"You bring tidings from my brother," were her first words.

"Yes," he replied, "two days since I saw him-was with him an hour."

Long did it appear to Madeleine ere the gathering shades of night closed over the Solitude of the greenwood, and she would have hailed it as an auspicious omen, had clouds arisen to veil the moon now in its first quarter; for she was aware that, at a time when conspiracies were so rife, that two lovers could not meet to interchange their vows without arousing suspicion, unless her contemplated interview with young Devigne were concealed from the inmates of the chateau; his safety and probably her own would be endangered. "Has he not then departed for Spain? The more caution was necessary as Cardi- What can occasion kis delay ?" nal Richelieu, who by his vigilance and "I would that I could spare you the pain promptitude had succeeded in detecting of informing you, dear Madeleine. and crushing every plot which threatened brother is in prison. Instead of proceeding his own power, as well as in identifying to Spain as he anticipated when he left the persons concerned, was at this time you, he was induced to join the standard residing in his apartments at Versailles, of the Duke of Montromency in Longuewhich had been assigned him by the King doc. The Duke was defeated at Castelimmediately after the abortive attempt of naudarg, was taken prisoner, and must Mary de Medici to effect his fall; and it was die." well known if Devigne and Madeleine's brother were not her personal friends, that they were on familiar terms with Montromency and others who favored her cause. Mary, who refused to be reconciled to the Cardinal, was by his instigation banished

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"Auguste," said Madeleine, laying her trembling hand on Devigne's arm-must he share his leader's fate?"

"Not if he can escape from prison."
"Is there a possibility of his escape?"
"Yes, if his removal to the Bastille is

to the castle of Compeigne, and many of delayed a few days longer, and he were in her friends were removed from place or possession of that which unlocks fetters, confined in the Bastille; even the royal draws bolts, and blinds the eyes of the gis not proving broad enough to shieldsentinel."

"You mean money," "Yes."

He opened the door of one of them, and saying, "Monseigneur, the lady is here," "One hundred franks is all I have in the stepped aside to let her pass. Madeleine world, but I have jewels that are valuable: now, for the first time beheld the celebrayou shall have them all." ted man, who had long been well known Just as Madeleine pronounced these to her by fame, Armand du Plessis, Cardiwords, the shadow of some person fell a-nal Rochelien. He was seated in a large, cross a path which wound within a short luxurious elbow chair covered with rich distance of the place where they stood.-tapestry, and before him stood a table covThey both saw it, and remained for a few jered with loose papers, letters and packamoments fearing to speak or move, but not ges; some of them open and a part newly the slightest sound of any kind-not even folded bearing the impress of his own seal. the rustle of a leaf, betrayed the proximity He had dismissed his attendants, except a of any living being. Devigne searched single secretary, who stood at a small desk among the trees until satisfied that whoev-on which lay a blank sheet of paper. She er had been lurking near had made his es-had from habits of intimacy with those cape. He, however, did not speak above who were disaffected towards him, been his breath, when he replied to the last prepared to behold him with feelings of words of Madeleine. unqualified aversion; but now in his pres"I wish," said he, "that it were possible ence, there was something in his appearfor me to make a journey to my own home jance both repelling and attractive. His in season to procure the money. But that eyes were large and mild, and there was a cannot be done, and I must, however re-look of benignity lingering round his ample luctantly, take your jewels. In fifteen forehead shaded with a few thin locks of minutes more I must be on my way back."hair, which although he had not yet attain"Impossible! how can you pass the ed the age of fifty years, were blanched to draw-bridge?" the whiteness of snow, that might have

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"I have a certain friend in the chateau inspired with confidence, could the eye who has taken care that I find no trouble have been restrained from descending to in that respect, and who has ordered a fresh the lower part of his face and marking the horse ready saddled to await me in the for-thin lips compressed so as to impart to his mouth an expression of sternness and rigThey lingered not to breathe vows of idity, and the short peaked beard which faith or words of endearment. They re-appeared to possess the quality of giving mained only while they fixed upon a plan to the countenance an air of subtlety and by which Devigne could obtain possession craft.

of the money and jewels, and it was finally "Your name," said he addressing her, agreed that Madeleine should secure them while at the same time the secretary dipin a strong envelope and drop them from ped his pen in the ink, "is Madeleine de her window, beneath which he was to be Rouberval."

in readiness to receive them. She regain- "It is, Monseigneur."

ed her chamber without encountering any "I see the name of oue Auguste de Rou person on her way thither, and soon had berval here, said he, casting his eye over a the satisfaction of transferring the package list of names which lay before him-"is he which she hastily prepared, to Devigne, your brother?" who, in order to break the noise of its fall, spread his cloak to receive it. She remain

"Monseigneur, I have not a single sous." "Beware how you attempt to deceive me."

Madeleine replied in the affirmative. "You have," said he, "a hundred franks ed at the window till he was lost to her and some jewels. For the present you view in the deep recesses of the woods, must resign them to the care of trustier and was congratulating herself that he had hands than yours." effected his departure without attracting the notice of those persons in the chateau whom it might interest, when she heard footsteps in the ante-room, which were shortly succeeded by a low knock at her I door. On opening it, a page stood without "Go," said he to the page, who remainwho informed her that his master, Cardin-ed standing near the door by which Madeal Richelieu, desired her presence. The eine had en ered, "and tell the Chevalier color with which her recent agitation and Devigne, who this evening accompanied hurry had flushed her cheeks faded away, his Majesty to the chateau, that we would as with an air of trepidation she prepared speak with him."

"I have not attempted to deceive youhave told the truth."

to follow the page. He led the way with During the page's absence the Cardinal a gliding, noiseless step, which habit had remained s le t while Madeleine,so excesrendered natural to him, to apartments sit-sive was her agit tion, would have found uated on the opposite side of the chateau.it impossible to have remained standing,

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From the Religious Souvenir.
THE QUAKERESS BRIDE.

BY MRS. E. C. STEDMAN.

had she not supported herself by grasping the edge of a table near her. After an absence of some minutes, the page returned, and informed his master that the Chevalier Devigne was nowhere to be found. Mad-! not in the halls of the noble and proud, eleine did not dare raise her eyes from the Where fashion assembles her glittering floor, yet she felt that the quiet, searching, gaze of the great man was upon her.

"Five minutes," said he, addressing her, "had not elapsed when you entered this apartment, since you parted with some per

crowd;

Where all is beauty and splendor array'd, Were the nuptials performed of the meek quaker bride;

son-the Chevalier Devigne, I think," and Nor yet in the temple those fites which he waited as if expecting her to reply, but

she remained silent.

"Can you say that you did not meet some person in the wood tonight?" "I cannot, Monseigneur.'

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she took;

By the altar, the mitre-crown'd bishop and book;

When oft in he; jewels doth stand the fair bride,

"And this person was the Chevelier De-To whisper those vows which thro' life vigne."

"I cannot deny it."

shall abide.

"Did he apprize you that he intended The building was humble, yet sacred to leaving the chateau tonight?"

"He did."

"And he informed you whither he was going."

"Yes, Monseigneur, but it is impossible for me to tell."

Him,

Before whom the pomp of religion is dim Whose presence is not to the temple confin'd,

But dwells with the contrite and lowly of mind.

Twas here, all unveil'd, save by modesty stood

The Quakeress bride, in her pure satin hood;

"Your refusing to tell can be of little Consequence. He is doubtless on his way with your hundred franks and your jewels to bribe the gaoler and liberate De Rouberval from prison. It is not yet too late to Her charms unadorn'd by the garland or save him the trouble. Perrin, show the lady back to her own room."

Scarcely a minute had elapsed after she|| had regained her apartment before she

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heard voices and footsteps in the passages, A tear glisten'd bright, in her dark shadand beheld lights gleaming from window

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She extinguished her own And her bosom half utter'd a tremulous

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light and leaned from the casement, that her ear might catch every movement of preparation on the outside of the chateau. As the hand she had pledged was confid

Shortly two horsemen rode round to that

side of the building, where they halted to receive orders for their journey. A person soon appeared for that purpose.

"His Eminence," said he, "commands that you take fresh horses at the first hostelry, and that you spare not the spur or stay to eat, till you overtake the object of your pursuit.'

We shall use all diligence," said one of them, as they started at full speed in the same direction that Devigne had gone an half hour before.

Long did Madeleine listen to the dull and heavy tramp of their horses' feet upon the greensward, as it came wafted on the night-breeze, which to her fearful fancy had in it sounds ominous of Devigne's and her brother's impending fate.

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But in all the array of the costliest scene, Naught seemed to my eye so sincere in its mien,

No language so fully the heart to resign,|| As the Quakeress bride's--' until death I am thine.'

For the Ladies' Pearl.
THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE
GLOVE.

A FRAGMENT OF THE OLDEN TIMES.

His long spear passed clear through the villain who was employed in rifling the lady of her jewels, and he fell forward between the palfrey's feet, where his foul spirit struggled to its doom in the shades below. Still shouting his cheering cry, the valiant youth drew his battle-axe, and cleaving the head of another, and another, soon dispersed the whole band, who in their light armor were no match for the closely steeled knight, whose strong mail might easily defy the blows of their light swords, and ward off their cross-bow shafts.

It was a beautiful morning in the spring of 1584, when a knight errant might have been seen, pursuing his way down a steep The enemy dispersed, the gallant knight mountain-pass, in the northern part of laid aside his helmet, and knelt with a France. His gaily carrolled song, and proper devotion to the beauty he had so youthful roundness of form, which his mas-valiantly delivered. sy armor could not conceal, showed him to be yet in the early spring-tide of his days. He closed his song and began to commune with himself.

'Here am I, George de Montmorenci; the noblest blood of France flows through my veins, and by my halidome, I think no lady's arm, or coward's heart is mine; the Holy Virgin grant,that I soon have chance to prove it.'

As he spoke a loud shriek was borne by the morning breeze to his ears.

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'I may not tell you, sir knight,' said the lady, who it is you have thus benefitted ; but with my thanks and gratitude I bestow upon you this glove; when you bear it aloft in the tournament, or battle-field, forget not that you may one day claim the hand of her who wore it.'

The knight looked up,and as he met the sweet blue eyes of the lovely lady,he seized her hand and swore it should be the whole aim of his life, to deserve and win Ha! thanks to thee Holy Maria! thou her; and as the noble youth stood up in hast heard my prayer,' exclaimed the fiery his early beauty, with his long chestnut youth. locks flowing in the beautiful mode of the Striking his spurs, rowel deep, into his times, around his shoulders, it would have gallant steed, he dashed on in the direc-been difficult to tell into whose heart the tion of the cry. A short turn in the road,dart of Cupid had struck deepest; that of and the object of his search was found; a the unknown damsel's, or of the valiant lady of surpassing beauty, was surrounded knight. by a band of the robbers, who infested at Forbidding him to follow,she turned her that time the greater portion of France, and light steed,and darted away like the wind. with lawless hands robbed whomsoever Long time stood the youth gazing in the they met. Seated on a white palfrey, the direction of her flight; an arrow glanced damsel looked like Innocence surrounded from off his iron shoulder, and as he hastiby Malice, Hate and Revenge. One or ly resumed his steel helmet, another and the villains held the lady's bridle, while another struck some part of his armor.another was despoiling her of all her jew-Knowing it to be useless to endeavor to els, and was just in the act of cutting out pursue his foe, through the copse and the rings from her ears with his sharp-edg-||woodland, but disdaining to flee, he rode ed poignard, when the war-cry of the on at his former slow pace, and though evknight arrested his arm. er and anon an arrow would whistle past To the rescue, Montmorenci, to the him, yet he kept on and on ascending an Jeminence, he looked back and saw the

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robber band assembled around the dead tle-field, yet he still found leisure to be bodies of their comrades. happy at home in the society of his belov

Distorical.

GERTRUDE,

OR FIDELITY TILL DEATH.

The Baron Von Der Wart, accused,

Ere night he reached Paris; he soon ed Anna. heard that a grand tournament was to be held the next week, open to all of gentle blood; the prize was the hand of the Lady Anna Arguielle. It was said the lady was very averse to this mode of getting married, but her father, a stern old knight, had though it is believed unjustly, as an acsworn she should never marry but with complice in the assassination of the Emperor Albert, was bound alive on the wheel, one who was able to defend and protect and attended by his wife Gertrude, thro`her-and she was obliged to obey the out his last agonizing hours, with the most heroic devotedness. Her own sufferings, wishes of her father. with those of her unfortunate husband, are De Montmorenci, whose heart was almost affectingly described in a letter which ready in the possession of the fair wood she afterwards addressed to a female friend, nymph, had no desire to contend for the and which was published some years ago, at Haarlem, in a book entitled Gertrude hand of the Lady Arguielle,but as he stood Von Der Wart or Fidelity unto Death. musing before his tent, the damsel whom he had defended rode by him on the same white palfrey! Inquiring who the lady was, he learned it was the Lady Anna.Immediately he retired with a compressed lip and a firm smile, to prepare for a contest with the flower of the noble chivalry This fixed and sacred hold. In thy dark of France on the following day. prison-house,

Dark lowers our fate,
And terrible the storm that gathers o'er us;
But nothing, till that latest agony
Which severs thee from nature, shall un-
loose

The morrow dawned, and with the first In the terrific face of armed law, faint streak of light, on the eastern hori-Yea, on the scaffold, if it needs must be, I never will forsake thee. zon, persons of both sexes began to crowd the spacious plain. And before ten a dense mass of heads showed how great was the Her hands were clasped, her dark yes fondness of the French for beholding noble deeds and warlike feats.

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raised,

Joanna Baillie.

The breeze threw back her hair;
Up to the fearful wheel she gazed—
All that she loved was there.
The night was round her clear and cold,
The holy heaven above,
Its pale stars watching to behold

The might of earthly love.

"And bid me not depart," she cried,
"My Rudolph, say not so!
This is no time to quit thy side,
Peace, peace! I can not go.
Hath the world aught for me to fear,
When death is on thy brow?

The

world! what means it?-mine is

here

I will not leave thee now.

"I have been with thee in thine hour
Of glory and of bliss;
Doubt not its men.ory's living power

To strengthen me through this!
And thou, mine honored love and true
Bear on, bear nobly on!
We have the blessed heaven in view,
Whose rest shall soon be won."

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