The Separation (Volume 2); A Novel

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830. Excerpt: ... I draft that his steward had remitted, as usual, for the use of the foreigners at Rock Cliff. It was simply returned in a blank cover. He had made inquiries as to the cause of this circumstance, and learned that the foreigners, having paid the debt they contracted at the village where they resided, had left it some time; but no one knew whither they were gone. CHAPTER VI. But ill he lived, much evil saw With men to whom no better law, or better life was known. Wordsworth. At the time of Lord Fitzharris's arrival in Paris with Lenora, now nearly five years back from the present epoch of this history, his stay there had been protracted, as he said, much against his inclination, on account of the troublesome, litigious business that occurred on the subject of the legacy left by Don Miguez. This was partly true, partly raise. The fact stood thus. One evening during the latter week of his sojourn there, by one of those impulses difficult to be accounted for, but which, nevertheless, are often felt, as he was passing the very den of evil from which Don Miguez had extricated him a twelvemonth previously, he felt an invincible desire to revisit his old haunts: and something like a sentiment of revenge and defiance crossed his feelings, at the idea of meeting with the very miscreants who had sought his money, and perhaps his life. He resisted not this evil spirit of vengeance, and soon found himself in the midst of such a crew as bespeak the dreadful business of their lives. He sat down to play for the express purpose of detecting any fraud that might be intended; and, with wary eye and practised skill, he watched every turn of the game, and was so absorbed in the business, that for some time he perceived not a person leaning over his chair till the near vicinity...