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THE HEROINE OF PADUA.
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the slave of superstition. Struck with horror, he sought to atone for the injuries of Blanca Rubea, by ordering her tomb-stone never to be removed; the people readily joined in believing that Divine Providence had appointed it as a memorial of the brave and constant pair; and the latest posterity will view it with hallowed reverence. Blanca Rubea has proved that her sex may attain the most elevated virtues, and perform the most conspicuous achievements of heroic patriotism.

B. G.

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