The Brigand

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ... affecting meeting, and miraculous restoration of Zitella so suddenly to her senses. Language must fail in attempting to describe it. Vor some time tho unfortunate mother and daughter conld do nothing but embrace and weep upon each other's bosom, while Montaldi and the brigand's wife stood by deeply affected, but did not offer to interrupt them. "Oh, God 1' at length exclaimed Zitella, "and as it at length pleased Thee, in Thine infinite mercy, to recall my scattered reason, and to restore that beloved child whom I thought lost to me for ever to my arms?--I ci sc ree believe in this, the extent of my happiness. Daughter, daughter! bi loved daughter! yes; the instinct of nature tells me that yon arc so! Oh, let me again press you to my swelling heart with all a mother's fondness, and weep my tsars of joy upon your bosom.' "Mother! mother!" cried Olympia, again returning her fond embrace with increased fervsur. "Oh, that endearing name; Heaven has indeed been merciful to ns, after all our troubles, in restoring us to each other; and never shall our voices cease in its praise; we will never, never more part until death shall separate ns!" "We will not, my beloved child," said Zitella, "and may the time when death shall part us be far distant. Oh, what a frightful dream has been tbat which I have so 1 ng experienced; but thank Heaven, I am at last aroused from it, and may I hope that happiness may be the portion of my declining years." "Amen!" said Olympia, solemnly, "and may my misguided parent yet live to repent of the errors he has committed, snd to make you all the atonement he can, for the brutal (for I cannot call it by any milder term) treatment you have experienced from him." &q...