THE DUEL.
—“Are you satisfied?” cried Edgar, accompanying his words with a dreadful thrust. The sword entered the breast of Richard, and but just escaped his heart. “Are you satisfied?” repeated he, while drawing the weapon from the wound, reaking with the blood of his friend. Richard would have replied, but his speech failed. He groaned; he gasped for breath; he fainted.
The clashing of swords, and the words of Edgar, arroused the venerable inhabitant of the forest. He slipped on his garments, and hastened to the scene of action: With some herbs, of the nature of which he was acquainted, he staunched the bleeding, and Richard again opened his eyes. When the hermit saw he was so far recovered, he returned to his cottage, to prepare a bed, and get other things in readiness for the reception of the wounded person.
The first object that Richard’s returning sight brought to view was Edgar. “Traitor! Villain!” he feebly uttered, “hence from my sight---life is no longer pleasing to me---you have strewed before me bitterness. My sister you have wronged; in an unguarded moment you took the advantage; you triumphed over her virtue: And do you still suppose I can behold you with tranquility? If you do, know that I detest you.”
“For this I will be revenged!” exclaimed the other. “Take that!---and should our spirits meet in other worlds revenge I’ll still pursue!” Here the wretch, triumphing over a fallen enemy, plunged his sword deep into the heart of Richard; and extinguished the spark of life that still remained.
The hermit was returning from his cottage---horror arrested his steps---“he saw the iron enter his soul.”
L. B.
February 14, ’97.
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METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
From the 5th to the 11th inst.
| Thermometor observed at | Prevailing winds. | OBSERVATIONS on the WEATHER. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, A.M. 3, P.M. | 6. | 3. | 6. | 3. | ||||
| deg. | 100 | deg. | 100 | |||||
| March 5 | 50 | 50 | 54 | w. | do. | cloudy, h. wd. | clear, do. | |
| 6 | 22 | 25 | nw. | do. | clear, h. wd. | do do. | ||
| 7 | 19 | 28 | nw. | sw. | clear, h. wd. | cloudy sm. sn. | ||
| 8 | 37 | 60 | sw. | do. | cloudy, sm. rn. | clear h. wd. | ||
| 9 | 25 | 30 | nw. | do. | clear h. wd. | do. do. | ||
| 10 | 19 | 32 | nw. | do. | clear lt wd. | do. do. | ||
| 11 | 28 | 33 | s. | s. | sn. lt. wd. | do. sn. 6 in. deep. | ||
For the New-York Weekly Magazine.