"Enough, sir! I will gratify your inclination any way." They now walked in sullen indignation to the top of the town, where Palemon took from the chaise he had left there, the usual instruments of death. "The exasperated friends now crossed over a field, and came into a close quite retired from public view. 586 Palemon, hear me," cries Rinaldo, just as the former was offering him the choice of his weapons; his full heart willing to make all the compensation in his power. "No parleying now," cries the former," all that you can say will never expiate your guilt. "Take your choice," (presenting him him a pistol and a sword) “ and don't provoke me to act the part of an assassin." "Rinaldo still remonstrated; but Palemon was inexorable, and, putting the point of his sword to Rinaldo's breast, exclaimed---" Villain stand on your defence, or you instantly die !" "Rinaldo put back Palemon's sword, hoping still to prevail; but Palemon, considering this as accepting the challenge, exclaimed---" Now, miscreant! take the reward of thy perfidy." Rinaldo, seeing him aiming a thrust, snatched up the sword he had thrown aside, and in a moment beat off the longe made at him. "Palemon, infuriated to an excess, repeated repeated the attack, and Rinaldo, findall remonstrances vain, stood on his defence. "The contest soon became serious, several thrusts were received on both sides; at last Palemon, grown desperate even to madness, made a furious pass at his adversary, which entered his side, at the same moment receiving the point of Rinaldo's sword through his heart. They both fell at this instant. Palemon expired without a groan; and Rinaldo lay bleeding, and at the point of death. "It happened that Palemon's application to the chaise was noticed by the driver, who, suspecting what was about to take place, alarmed the neighbourhood; and, having collected a few asdistants, hurried to the spot. They ar d just in time to see the comba tants tants fall; but too late to prevent the mischief! "Rinaldo, in his expiring moments, exclaimed---" I have murdered my friend!---destroyed the peace of a once happy family!---and, by my baseness, have been accessary to my own end !---I die in despair!" 66 They carried the dead bodies of the combatants into the town. Rinal do was soon conveyed to his friends; and the corpse of Palemon was shortly after carried to his afflicted parents, whose agonies cannot be described, on beholding their only hope torn from them by a violent and untimely death. "The anguish they endured at this accumulated disaster, made them frantic. "The VOL, II. C "The lovely Lavinia had expired but an hour before! "The interview with her brother was too much for her exhausted frame to sustain; she at length sunk into the arms of her distracted friends, and spoke no more! "Scarce had the unfortunate father retired from the clay-cold embrace of his daughter, when the pale and bloody corpse of their son, on whom they doated, was presented to their view. ↓ "The unhappy mother swooned at the sight---and her afflicted partner ranged the room in all the horrors of distraction. "The numerous friends of this once. happy couple assembled round them to soothe their afflictions; but all attempts |