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Deep rooted in a kindred soil,
It bids the tempest strain and toil,
And laughs to scorn its vain turmoil.
"Love is a summer bird that flies
The first dark frown of wintry skies,
Or quickly sickens, droops, and dies."
It is not so, but ever near,

It haunts our homesteads all the year,
And in the winter gives us cheer.

"Love not, the thing you love may change,'
And looks once fond grow cold and strange,
Seeking abroad some wider range."

True love that once hath found its home
There rests, and hath no will to roam;
No time can mar, no change can come.
"Love not, the thing you love may die,'
And 'tis the worst of misery
To mourn for happy days gone by."
Love dies not, tho' the cord be riven
That binds the sense, nor room be given
To rest on earth; it lives in heaven.
"Be wise in time, nor strive in vain
To shun the inevitable chain
Of that thine only birth-right-Pain."
False counsellor, 'twas God that wove
The golden threads of holy love,
To link mankind with things above.
Love keeps the world; hence all derive
That life which it alone can give :
By love the very angels live.

Talk not of change, nor dare defame
By baser things so pure a name,

If love be true,

'tis saye the same.

Talk not of change, heaven's dearest boon
Is linking two fond hearts in one,
There perfecting what here begun.

Then bid me not to cast away
What God hath given us for a stay,
To cheer us in earth's evil day.
Nay, rather close and closer twine
Around this yearning heart of mine
Those earthly bonds, yet bonds divine.

Miscellaneous.

"I have here made only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own, but the string that ties them."-Montaigne.

KING JAMES THE SECOND IN EXILE.

A PORTION of the private suite of the apartments of the king and queen at St. Germains remain unaltered. King James's morning room, or cabinet, with its dark green and gold panelling, and richly carved cornice, presents a melancholy appearance of faded splendour. It opens with glass doors upon the stately balcony that surrounds the chateau, and commands a charming and extensive prospect. It was here that the fallen king retired to read or write. This room communicated with the

leading from her own apartment to the queen's back-
stairs; but the young lady always obtained her release
by climbing to the little window that looked down into
the king's closet, and tapping at the glass till she had
attracted attention; then, showing her weeping face,
and clasping her hands in an attitude of earnest entreaty,
she would cry, in a sorrowful tone, "Ah! Sire, send for
me!" James, unless deeply engaged in business of im-
portance, always complied with the request of the tear-
ful petitioner, for he was very fond of children; and
when Mrs. Plowden next entered the royal presence
with the queen, she was sure to find her small captive
closeted with his majesty, sitting at his feet, or some
times on his knee. At last she said to the king, "I
know not how it happens, but whenever my little girl
is naughty, and I shut her up in the lobby, your majesty
does her the honour of sending for her into your closet."
James laughed heartily, and pointing to the window
above, explained the mystery.-Strickland's Queens of
England.

THE FROZEN DEAD AT THE HOSPICE OF THE GRAND ST.
BERNARD.

THE scene of the greatest interest at the Hospice -a solemn, extraordinary interest indeed-is that of the Morgue, or building where the dead bodies of lost travellers are deposited. There they are, some of them as when the breath of life departed, and the Death Angel, with his instruments of frost and snow, stiffened and embalmed them for ages. The floor is thick with nameless skulls and bones, and human dust heaped in confusion. But around the wall are groups of poor sufferers in the very position in which they were found, as rigid as marble, and in this air, by the preserving element of an eternal frost, almost as crumbling. There is the mother and a child, a most affecting image of suffering and love. The face of the little one remains pressed to the mother's bosom, only the back part of the skull being visible, the body enfolded in her careful arms, careful in vain, affectionate in vain, to shield her offspring from the elemental wrath of the tempest. The snow fell fast and thick, and the hurricane wound them up in one white shroud and buried them. There is also a tall, strong man, standing alone, the face dried and black, but the white unbroken teeth firmly set and close, grinning from the fleshless jaws--it is a most awful spectacle. The face seems to look at you from the re cesses of the sepulchre, as if it would tell you the story of a fearful death-struggle in the storm. There are other groups more indistinct; but these two are never to be forgotten, and the whole of those dried and frozen remnants of humanity are a terrific demonstration of the fearfulness of this mountain pass, when the elements, let loose in fury, encounter the unhappy traveller. You look at all this through the grated window: there is just light enough to make it solemnly and distinctly visible, and to read in it a powerful record of mental and physical agony, and of maternal love in death. The little child, hiding its face in its mother's bosom, and both frozen to death-one can never forget the group, nor the momento mori, nor the token of deathless love. -Dr. Cheever's Wanderings.

N.B. The Second Volume of this Periodical is now ready; covers seller.

CONTENTS.
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Page

The Original Artist............ 157
Guido Reni

POETRY:

152

"Love Not," rebuked

.... 159

154

MISCELLANEOUS:

156

King James II. &c......... 160

Holyrood Palace, (with II-
lustrations)
145
Christmas Party, Chap. IV. 148
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queen's bed-chamber by a private stair; and, indeed, for binding, with table of contents, may be ordered of any Bookwith the whole of that wing of the palace, by a number of intricate passages which lie behind it. In one of the lobbies there is a small square window, which commands a view of the royal closet, so that anybody ambushed there might look down upon his majesty and watch all his proceedings. A pleasing tradition, connected with this window, was related to me by a noble lady, whose great-grandmother, Mrs. Plowden, was one of the ladies in the household of Queen Mary Beatrice. Mrs. Plowden's infant family lived with her in the palace of St. Germains; and she sometimes found it necessary, by way of punishment, to shut up her little daughter Mary (a pretty spoiled child, of four years old,) in the lobby

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FRANK FAIRLEGH;

OR, OLD COMPANIONS IN NEW SCENES.
Br F. E. S.

TO THE READER.

READER! Mysterious being, whose name is Legion, (for who is there that peruseth not the pages of Sharpe?) thou that art variform as the fabled Proteus, and many minded, as the units of which thou art composed are numerous, and dost yet possess a congregate opinion, and general voice, which is all-powerful! Stranger, to whom are confided thoughts and feelings, of which not only my most chosen friends are ignorant, but which I have scarcely dared definitely to acknowledge to my own heart!-once more am I about to renew my singular

intercourse with thee.

once more entirely to change my prospects in life. I came from Messrs. Coutts, the bankers, and stated that they were commissioned to pay me the sum of 400l. per annum, in quarterly payments, for the purpose of ¿ fraying my expenses at college; the only stipulations being, that the money should be used for the purp and that I made no inquiries, direct or indirect, as to specified, that I did not contract any debts whatsoever the source from which the sum proceeded. In the even of my complying with these conditions, the same allow

ance was to be continued to me till I should have taken my degree.

The immediate consequence of this most unexpected communication was, our devoting the greater part d'a from which this liberal offer might have proced morning to vain speculations as to the possible sours After guessing every one we could think of, likely unlikely, we ended, as is usual in such cases, by beca ing more puzzled, if possible, than when we beca The only person with whom I was acquainted, posses

Reader, hast thou forgotten "Frank Fairlegh?" Are the "Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil," coming both the will and the power to do such a thing, wa pletely banished from thy memory? Surely it is not so. It cannot be that the pleasant friendship existing between us is to terminate thus abruptly. Rather will I believe that we meet again as old friends should do, with a hearty shake of the hand, and a feeling of mutual pleasure.

"Why, Frank, you have become a man since we last parted." Even so, dear reader, and many strange events have occurred in the interval; events which, for me, have possessed a peculiar interest; whether they are likely to inspire you with aught of the same feeling, you will be able to judge when you have perused the following pages.

CHAP. I.

INTRODUCTORY.

Sir John Oaklands; but he had already, in the kindest accompany Harry to Trinity College, Cambridge, beg manner, tried to persuade my mother to allow me to ging to be permitted to defray the expenses of my so doing himself; an offer which she (not choosing to place herself under so heavy an obligation to a compe rative stranger) had, with many expressions of gramDalton, it was decided that I should signify to Meses tude, declined. After consulting with our friend, Mr Coutts my readiness to comply with the required conditions, begging them to convey my best thanks to my mysterious benefactor, and to inform him, that it was my intention (subject to his approval) to enter my name at Trinity, without loss of time. In answer to this, I received the following laconic epistle :-" Messrsk. Coutts beg to inform Mr. Frank Fairlegh, that, in reply to ba favour of the 21st ult., they are desired to state, thal the sum of 4007. per annum will be placed at his dispo sal, whenever he applies for it."

health and spirits, while Fanny was developing into a very pretty and agreeable girl.

Towards the expiration of this period, Mr. Dalton saw fit to take unto himself a wife, a circumstance which induced my mother to accept the offer of a cottage be longing to Sir John Oaklands, which was suited to her limited means. It was situated within the park-gates, about a mile from Heathfield Hall, and, though small, was well built, and exceedingly pretty.

FOR some months after my father's death, I continued to live at the rectory; Mr. Dalton, the new incumbent, I now resumed my studies under the superintendence who had been his curate, and was unmarried, kindly of Mr. Dalton, who had taken a good degree at Cam allowing my mother to remain there till her plans for bridge; and, alike delighted at my escape from the the future should be so far arranged, as to enable her to counting-house, and anxious to do credit to my bene determine in what part of the country it would be ad- factor's liberality, I determined to make the best use of visable for her to reside. It had been my father's wish my time, and worked con amore. In this manner, the and intention, when I should have attained a fit age, to next year and a half passed away without any thing send me to one of the universities; a wish my mother worthy of remark occurring. I was happy to perceive a was most anxious to carry into effect. In order to ac-gradual improvement taking place in my mother's complish this with her reduced means, it would have been necessary for her, not only to have practised the strictest economy, but also, in great measure, to have sacrificed my sister's education, as she would have been utterly unable to afford her the advantage of masters. To this, of course, I would not consent; after much discussion, therefore, the idea of college was reluctantly given up, and, as a last resource, my mother applied to an uncle of hers, engaged in the West India trade, begging him to endeavour to procure for me a clerkship in some mercantile establishment. She received a very kind reply, saying that, although he considered me too young at present to be chained to a desk, he should advise me to apply myself diligently to the study of French and book-keeping; and ending by offering me a situation in his own counting-house, when I should be eighteen. As my only alternative lay between accept ing this offer, (however little suited to my taste,) or remaining a burden upon my mother, it may easily be imagined that I lost no time in signifying my desire to avail myself of his kindness; and, ere a couple of months had elapsed, I had plunged deeply into the mysteries of book-keeping, and could jabber French with tolerable fluency. I was still working away at "Double Entry," Time rolled on, and another three months beheld us and other horrors of a like nature, when one morning duly installed in our rooms at Trinity, and dividing I received a large business-like letter, in an unknown hand, the contents of which astonished me not a little, with our various idiosyncrasies,) boating on the Cam, our time between reading (more or less, in accordance as well they might; for they proved to be of a nature | billiard-playing at Chesterton, et hoc genus omne.

it enabled me to renew my intercourse with Harry, who
This was an arrangement of which I highly approved, as
having left Dr. Mildman's, was spending a few months
at home with his father, previous to his matriculation at
Trinity. I found him but little altered in any respect
rest, he was just as good-tempered, kind-hearted, and,
save that he had become more manly looking. For the
alas! indolent, as ever.
also was going to Cambridge, and that Coleman, when
He informed me, that Lawless
he learned what a party of us there would be, had been
most anxious to accompany us; but his father, unfortu
nately, did not approve, and he was now articled to a
solicitor, with a view to his succeeding eventually to
his father's practice.

Of my college life I shall say but little, a piece of forbearance for which I consider myself entitled to the everlasting gratitude of my readers, who, if they have not had their curiosity on that subject more than satisfied by the interminable narrations of "Peter Priggins," and his host of imitators, must indeed be insatiable. Suffice it then to say, that, having from the first determined, if possible, to obtain a good degree, I made a resolute stand against the advances of Lawless who, in consequence of his father's having, for some reason best known to himself and the premier, received a peerage, had now become an "honourable,") and the rowing set," amongst whom, by a sort of freemasonry of kindred souls, he had become enrolled immediately on his arrival. After several fruitless attempts to shake my determination, they pronounced me an incorrigible "sap," and, leaving me to my own devices, proceeded to try their powers upon Oaklands. They met with but little success in this quarter, however; not that with him they had any indomitable love of study to contend with, but that all that sort of thing was too much trouble; he really didn't believe there was a single fellow among the whole lot who had the slightest appreeistion of the dolce far niente." When, however, they fund out that upon an emergency Harry could excel them all, whatever might be the nature of the feat to be performed, and that I could cross a country, pull an oar, or handle a bat, with the best of them, they set us down as a pair of eccentric geniuses, and as seh admitted us to a kind of honorary membership in their worshipful society; and thus, 'twixt work and play, the first two years of my residence at Cambridge passed happily enough.

CHAP. II.

CATCHING A SHRIMP.

"A MIGHTY stupid chapter that last!" "True for you, reader; but how was it to be avoided? It was Recessary to give you that short summary of my proeedings, the better to enable you to understand all that is to follow; and so, don't you see"-"Yes, that will do. Above all things, Master Frank, avoid being Prosy; it is the worst fault an author can fall into." Reader, you're very cross."

It was towards the close of the long vacation, that, ne morning, as I was sitting at breakfast with my mother and sister, a note was brought to me. On opening it, it proved to be from Coleman, whose father had lately taken a country house near Hillingford, a small town about fifteen miles from Heathfield, where he was now about to give a grand ball to all the neighbourhood by way of house-warming. At this ball Freddy (with whom I had kept up a constant correondence, though we had never met since I left Dr. Mildman's,) was most anxious I should be present, and His letter was really a master-piece of persuasion; not only should I meet all the beauty and fashion of the fonty, but he had for some days past employed himself in paving the way for me with several of the most desirable young ladies of his acquaintance, who were now, as he assured me, actually pining to be introduced to me. Moreover, the Honourable George Lawless had promised to be there; so we were safe for fun of some sort, Lawless's tastes and habits being about as congenial to the atmosphere of a ball-room, as those of a bull to the interior of a china-shop.

These manifold temptations, together with the desire of again meeting Freddy himself, proved irresistible, and I decided to go. Oaklands, who had received a similar invitation, was unluckily not able to accept it, & his father had fixed a shooting-party for that day, at which, and at the dinner which was to follow, Harry's presence was indispensable.

It was in the afternoon of a glorious September day that I set off on horseback for Hillingford. I had accompanied the sportsmen in the morning, and had walked just enough to excite without fatiguing myself;

and now the elastic motion of the horse (a powerful hunter of Sir John's),-the influence of the fair scene around me, as I cantered over the smooth turf of Heathfield-park, and along the green lanes beyond it,— the prospect of seeing again an old companion of my boyhood's days,-all contributed to produce in me an exhilaration of spirits which seemed to raise me above the "Kleinigkeiten," the littlenesses (as the Germans so well express it) of this world, and to exalt me to some higher and nobler sphere. Out of this day-dream I was at length aroused by the clatter of horses' feet, and the rattle of wheels in the lane behind me, while a man's voice, in tones not of the most gentle description, accosted me as follows:-"Now then, sir, if you've got a license to take up the whole road, I'll just trouble you to show it!" With a touch of the spur I caused my horse to bound on one side, and, as I did so, I turned to look at the speaker. Perched high in mid-air, upon some mysterious species of dog-cart, bearing a striking resemblance to the box of a mail-coach, which had contrived, by some private theory of developement of its own, to dispense with its body, while it had enlarged its wheels to an almost incredible circumference; perched on the top of this remarkable machine, and enveloped in a white great coat, undermined in every direction by strange and unexpected pockets, was none other than the Honourable George Lawless ! The turn-out was drawn by a pair of thorough-breds, driven tandem, which were now (their irascible tempers being disturbed by the delay which my usurpation of the road had occasioned,) relieving their feelings by executing a kind of hornpipe upon their hind-legs. The equipage was completed by a tiger, so small, that beyond a vague sensation of top-boots and a livery hat, one's senses failed to realize him.

"Why, Lawless!" exclaimed I; "you are determined to astonish the natives, with a vengeance: such a turn-out as that has never been seen in these parts before, I'm certain."

"Frank Fairlegh, by Jove! How are you, old fellow? Is it my trap you're talking about? what do you think of it? rather the thing, is'nt it, eh?" I signified my approval, and Lawless continued, "Yes, it's been very much admired, I assure you-quiet! Mare, quiet!-not a bad sort of thing to knock about in, eh? What are you at, fool?-Tumble out, Shrimp, and hit Spiteful a lick on the nose--he's eating the mare's tail. Spicey tiger, Shrimp did you ever hear how I picked him up?" Í replied in the negative, and Lawless resumed I was down at Broadstairs the beginning of the longwretched place, but I went down for a boat-race with some more fellows; well, of course, because we wanted it to be fine, the weather turned sulky, and the boat-race had to be put off; so, to prevent ourselves from going melancholy mad, we hired a drag, and managed to get together a team, such as it was. The first day we went out they elected me waggoner, and a nice job I had of it; three of the horses had never been in harness before, and the fourth was a bolter. It was pretty near half an hour before we could get them to start; and, when they were off, I had enough to do to keep their heads out of the shop windows. However, as soon as they began to get warm to their work, things improved, and we rattled along merrily. We were spinning away at about twelve miles an hour, when, just as we were getting clear of the town, we came suddenly upon a covey of juvenile blackguards, who were manufacturing dirt pies right in the centre of the road. As soon as I saw them, I sung out to them to clear the course, but before they had time to cut away, we were slap into the middle of them. Well, I thought it was going to be a regular case of Herod, and that there would be at least half-a-dozen of them spifflicated, but they all managed to save their bacon except Shrimp,-one of the wheels went over him, and broke him somewhere. Where was it, Shrimp?"

"Left arm, Sir, if you please," replied Shrimp, in a shrill treble.

make pretty speeches to one's face without laughing at one behind one's back afterwards, by way of compensation." Which rule of course applies to the remarks you have just been making about me," returned I.

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Mr. Coleman, who was a short, stout, red-faced old gentleman, with a bald head, and a somewhat pompes manner, came forward and welcomed me warmly, saying all sorts of complimentary things to me, in extren high-flown and grandiloquent language; and referring to my having saved his son's life, in doing which, how ever, he quite won my heart, by the evident pride and affection with which he spoke of Freddy. The lady of the house was a little, round, merry-looking woman, chiefly remarkable (as I soon discovered) for a peculiar mental obliquity, leading her always to think of the w thing at the wrong time, whereby she was perpetually becoming involved in grievous colloquial entanglements, and meeting with innumerable small personal accidents, at which no one laughed so heartily as herself.

“Aye, so it was,” continued Lawless. "As soon as I could contrive to pull up, I sent the groom back, with orders to find a doctor, get the boy repaired, and tell them to come to me at the hotel in the morning, and I'd pay for all damages. Accordingly, while I was eating You've caught me there fairly," laughed Coleman, my breakfast next morning, an amphibious old female "but come along in now, I want to introduce you to in a blue pea-jacket was shown in to me, who stated she my mother and the governor; they are longing to s was Shrimp's mother. First, she was extremely lacry-you, after all I've told them about you, though I can't mose, and couldn't speak a word; then she got the steam say you look much like the thin delicate boy I have up, and began slanging me till all was blue; I was an described you." unchristianlike, hard-hearted, heathen Turk, so I was, and I'd been and spiled her sweet boy completely, so I had; such a boy as he was too, bless him, it was quite a sight to hear him say his Catechism; and as to reading his book, he'd beat the parson himself into fits at it.' Fortunately for me, she was a little touched in the wind, and when she pulled up to take breath for a fresh start, I managed to cut in. I tell you what it is, old lady,' said I, there's no need for you to put yourself into a fury about it; misfortunes will happen in the best regulated families, and it seems to me a boy more or less can make no great odds to any one--no fear of the breed becoming extinct just at present, if one may judge from appearances; however, as you seem to set a value upon this particular boy, I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll buy him of you, and then, if anything should go wrong with him, it will be my loss, and not yours. I'll give you 201. for him, and that's more than he would be worth if he was sound. By Jove, the old girl brightened up in a moment, wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her coat, and said-quired to be seen ere they could be believed in. As the Five pounds more, and it's a bargain.' And the end of it all was, the brat got well before I left the place, I paid the old woman her money, and brought Shrimp away with me, and it hasn't turned out such a bad spec either, for he makes a capital tiger, and now I've broken him in, I would not take twice the money for him. You'll be at old Coleman's hop to night, I suppose: so au revoir!” Thus saying, he drew the whip lightly across the leader's back, the horses sprang forward, and in another moment he was out of sight.

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Half an hour's ride brought me within view of Elm Lodge, the house lately taken by Mr. Coleman, senior. As I rang at the bell, a figure leaped out of one of the front windows, and came bounding across the lawn to meet me, and in another minute my hand was seized, and my arm nearly shaken off, by Coleman.

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Freddy, old boy!" "Frank, my dear old fellow!" were our mutual exclamations, as we once more shook hands with an energy which must have highly edified a pompous footman, whom my ring had summoned. After the first excitement of our meeting had a little subsided, we found time to examine each other more minutely, and note the changes a couple of years had wrought in us. Coleman was the first to speak.

Why, Frank, how you are altered!"

"If you were but decently civil, you would say 'improved' instead of 'altered,'" replied I, "but you'll

never learn manners."

"Oh, if you want compliments, I'll soon get up a few, but it strikes me they are not required. A man with such a face and figure as yours soon finds out that he is a deucedly good-looking fellow. Why, how high do you stand?"

"About six feet without my boots," replied I, laughing at Coleman, who kept turning me round, and examining me from top to toe, as if I had been some newlydiscovered animal.

Well, you are a screamer, and no mistake,"exclaimed he at length. "Be merciful towards the young ladies to-night, or the floor will be so cumbered with the heaps of slain, that we shall have no room to dance."

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Never fear," rejoined I, "the female breast is not so susceptible as you imagine, and I'll back your bright eyes and merry smile to do more execution than my long legs and broad shoulders any day."

"No soft sawder, Master Frank, if you please; it's an article for which I've a particular distaste; people never

About half past nine that evening, some of the guests began to arrive, amongst the foremost of whom a Lawless, most expensively got up for the occasion, in a stock and waistcoat, which, as Coleman observed, r

arrivals succeeded each other more rapidly, and the rooms began to fill, Lawless took me by the arm, and led me to a corner, whence, unnoticed ourselves, we could observe the whole scene.

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"This will be a very full meet, Fairlegh," he beg "I'm getting confoundedly nervous, I can tell you; I'm not used to this sort of affair, you know; I used always to shirk everything of the kind, but my Mater has g it into her head, since she's become My Lady, that se must flare up and give balls, because ladies of rank always do so,' forsooth, and so she's taken me in hand, to try and polish me up into something like a man ef fashion,' as she calls those confounded puppies one sees lounging about drawing-rooms. Well, as I didn't like t rile the old woman by refusing to do what she wanted, I went to a French mounseer, to teach me my paces; I've been in training above a month, so I thought Id come here, just as a sort of trial to see how I could go the pace."

"This is your débût, in fact," returned I.

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My how much?" was the reply. Oh, I see, starting for the maiden stakes, for untried horses only-th sort of thing-eh? Yes, it's the first time I've been regularly entered; I hope I sha'n't bolt off the course; I feel uncommon shy at starting, I can assure you."

"Oh, you'll do very well when you're once off; your partner will tell you if you are going to make any mistake," replied I.

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My partner; eh? You mean one of those white muslined young ladies, who is to run in double-harness with me, I suppose that's another sell ;-I shall be expected to talk to her, and I never know what to say to women; if one don't pay 'em compliments, and do a bit of the sentimental, they set you down as a brute directly. What an ass I was to come here! I wish it was bed-time!

"Nonsense, man; never be afraid!" exclaimed Freddy, who had just joined us; "I'll pick you out a partner who's used to the thing, and will do all the talking herself, and be glad of the opportunity of giving her tongue a little exercise; and here comes the very girl, of all others,-Di Clapperton." Then turning towards a tall showy-looking girl, who had just arrived, he addressed her with-" Delighted to see you, Miss Clapperton; a is graced by your presence: here's my friend, the Hon. ball-room never appears to me properly arranged till it George Lawless, dying to be introduced to you."

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