The Marquis of Brinvillier is never mentioned in the course of the proceedings in this extraordinary case, and there are no traces of his subsequent life. Madame de Sevigné says that he petitioned for the life of his chère moitié. Wretched as he must have been, he is the less entitled to sympathy because his own dissolute character contributed to bring his misfortunes upon himself. He probably spent his latter days in the deepest retirement, hiding himself from the world, as the bearer of a name indissolubly associated with crime and infamy.
(This paper will be followed, in our next number, by another on the same subject.)
SERENADE TO FRANCESCA.
"Quei trasporti soavi
Ch'io provai nell' amore nascente!"
I.
Under your casement, lady dear!
A voice, that has slumber'd for many a year,
Is waking to know if the same heart-vow