JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE BY THE BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THE DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AME CANS. BY MRS. TROLLOPE. 8vo. Illustrated w eight Engravings. THE REFUGEE IN : A NOVEL. BY MRS. TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF "THE DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS." IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: WHITTAKER, TREACHER, AND CO. NEW-YORK: REPRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS. THE REFUGEE IN AMERICA;' CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Ah! comment me consolerais-je à le fois de n'être pas à vous, et d'être à une autre.-Rousseau. ence. MR. EDWARD GORDON was one of those fortunate persons who, while yet in the pride of their youth, find themselves possessed of station, wealth, and independNor were these all his advantages: a fine person, a cultivated intellect, and a generous heart, were also among his claims to a kind reception from the world; and at twenty-one he was the person whom nearly all his acquaintance considered as the most enviable individual they knew. It may be considered, perhaps, rather as the consequence of his advantages, than as one of them, that he was not only the admired of all eyes, but also the desired of many hearts. Beautiful faces turned tenderly towards him from all sides; and, under such circumstances, to escape unscathed was impossible. It was not long before Mr. Gordon was seen dancing three quadrilles in one evening with the beautiful Miss Armitage. His was not a heart to be thoroughly won in a ballroom; nevertheless an unspeakably sweet face, with a clever mother to manage the affairs of the tender heart it belonged to, formed a battery before which more experienced generals than Mr. Gordon have fallen; and at VOL. I-A 958808 |