Know thus far forth:

By accident most strange, bountiful fortune,
Now, my dear lady, hath mine enemies
Brought to this shore: and by my prescience,
I find my zenith doth depend upon

A most auspicious star, whose influence,
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop.

SHAKESPEARE.

Les femmes ne sont pas trop d'humeur à pardonner de
certaines injures, et quand elles se promettent le plaisir de la
vengeance elles n'y vont pas de main-morte.

DE GRAMMONT.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

Second Edition.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

FUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT STREET, HANOVER SQUARE.

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A

CHAPTER I.

Having both the keys

Of officer and office, set all hearts i'the state
To what tune pleased his ear.

TEMPEST.

Rampant et mediocre, et l'on parvent à tout.

BEAUMARCHAIS.

THE Commodore had insisted on O'Leary's riding back his horse, and left the arrangement of his future resi dence at the friary entirely to his direction. He then ascended alone the steep hill, which, bleak, bare, and fringed only by a few scanty and ill-thriven plantations, led to the new-raised mansion of Mount Crawley. The house was a large square, lantern-like build