The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . ladysdress. The Five of Diamonds is a ve-ry beautiful composition, repre-senting a tournament of knightson horseback in complete armour;to which the sovereign is a specta-tor, attended by ladies of the knight in black armour is onthe point of being diamond forms armorial bear-ings, an ornament in the tapestry,and the shields of the contendingknights. The architecture andperspective of this card are verybeautiful, and the whole is well de-igned and ably executed. BEATRICE, OR THE FRACAS
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . ladysdress. The Five of Diamonds is a ve-ry beautiful composition, repre-senting a tournament of knightson horseback in complete armour;to which the sovereign is a specta-tor, attended by ladies of the knight in black armour is onthe point of being diamond forms armorial bear-ings, an ornament in the tapestry,and the shields of the contendingknights. The architecture andperspective of this card are verybeautiful, and the whole is well de-igned and ably executed. BEATRICE, OR THE FRACAS.(Continued from p. 49.)It was a dark stormy night, thewind blew with fearful violence,and the rain descended in floods,as they burst forth from the doorof the hotel; the elements seemedto take part in the affray, and howled in unison withthe uproar made by the linguist andthe painter. Awful would be thiscombination of ill sounds!—andso it was to a tall thin brother ofthe order of St. Francis, who,closely wrapped in his mantle andcowl, was calmly pacing homeward,. J / V BEATRICE, OR THE FRACAS. Ill Meditating on tiiQ blissful passageto a better world, to which he hadjust forwarded a pious contributorto his abbey. He was somewhatin advance of the contending p;ir-ties as they passed down the stre t,and he heard them and the stormgathering upon him, with a dismayonly to be equalled by his resigna-tion to the fearful was but just time to makeone pious ejaculation (for hethought that surely evil spirits wereabroad), when the linguist, stillproceeding with his melange of ex-ecrations, came furiously againsthim—Monsieur Le Pallet passedon. Now it happened that thelinguist, although of prodigiousspirit, was short in stature, and hisforehead coming in contact withthe elbow of the pious father, ashis hands were crossed upon hisbreast, he fell to the ground, sense-less and silent as the stones onwhich he lay. Holy St. Francis!said the father, it is a hu
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