Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 11 — page 128: what you’re looking at

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126 THE PRISONER OF LA VINTRESSE. good and lovely, and the young man had adored her. News came, however, while he was sojourning in England for a time, that she was false to him, and following rapidly, the fact came out that she was married. In despair the young man first attempted his life, then thought better of it, and out of re- venge married the first woman who would have him—the beautiful English girl, the mother of Minerva. When he ar- rived at home, he learned the truth of the matter—she had been sold, forced into marriage with a rich old Don. She would never see him till, her life fading away, she sent for him when she was_.dying. Her only child, the babe of a few months slept by her side. It was an anguished meeting. “We have been unliappily parted,” she said, “but I have a son and you a daughter! Promise me that if it is in your power, they two shall be united.. Thus, through our children we may once more know a true and worthy love.” “T promise,” he said. Thus it came to pass that both children were reared under, the roof of Gencral Limenes de Monserate. The old Don was induced before-he died (being also a friend of the general), to give the guardianship of his son into his hands, and the will of Minerva’s father provided thatif the two children, coming of age, married, half the property was to go to General Li- menes as a reward for his endeavors, but that if she married any other man, he (the general) should forfeit all interest in the will. There need be no further explanation, of course the reader sces the result. _ General Limenes de Monserate is living yet, and so are all the rest of my characters, Perhaps there are those who knew some of them in Saratoga. conmmicloooksaconhn