Beautiful Rienzi; or, The secret vendetta — page 286: what you’re looking at

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BEAUTIFUL RIENZI. 281 marble monument holds her name and her gra‘7e; fond hearts hold her saintly memory; God holds the chastened soul. Let us not weep. She has done her work. Her gentle hands have scattered roses long enough for others—may they not hold the palm in heaven now? God gave her the one wish of her sweet and humble spirit—He lent her for a season to bless the home of him she loved, and he is grateful, and repines not that his treasure went away to rest in heaven. She has vanished from his stately halls, and her serene brows are crowned with bliss unspeakable, and his heart has followed her through these gates of glittering pearl, and the poor, and the needy, and the oppressed enshrine the lonely Joselyn in their grateful hearts, and call him a true noble- man. : We do not mourn her dead. We know that she sits by the gates of heaven waiting for us. Perchance she holds them ajar to watch over us, and shed her overbrimming bliss upon us. And we see this infant angel which she left to comfort us—the orphan boy—the heir of Joselyn Wold. He nestles smiling in my arms, and lifts his mother’s blue, seraphic eyes to me. I weep, but I am filled with joy. I clasp him closer, and pray that he may also have her beau- tiful spirit. Brave, patient, meek carissima mia, we shall not part in heaven. | Close the curtains on memory’s cell; shut the blinds; I have recorded the end of THE SECRET VENDETTA. [THE END. ] ‘<A DEBT OF VENGEANCE,” by Mrs. E. BurkKE CoLtuins, will be published in the next number (42) of Tu SELECT SERIES, CORNUCG OOO S (©)