  CHAPTER I. "Oh! this is trim!" Troilus and Cressida. CHAPTER II. "The first springs of great events, like those of CHAPTER III. "I will dance and eat plums at your wedding." Shakspeare. CHAPTER V. "He talks to me, who never had a son." King John. CHAPTER VI. "Beauty provoketh Thieves sooner than Gold." As you like it. CHAPTER IX. "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promised." Shakspeare. BY THE AUTHOR OF BLUE-STOCKING HALL. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, WHO IS SHE? "As a stranger give it welcome." Hamlet.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The following story is founded on facts which came within the knowledge of the writer. The precise point at which truth ends, and fiction begins, it is not necessary to divulge; but in an age when an avidity for the stimulus of real adventure seems in a great degree to have superseded the love of mere romance, it may not be uninteresting to state that the heroine of the following pages is not altogether a creature of imagination. |
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