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A NOVEL.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"LADY GRANARD'S NIECES."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

T. C. NEW BY, PUBLISHER,

30, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.

1850.

P656

त KP865

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SEP 81941

SIR ARTHUR BOUVERIE.

CHAPTER I.

Bélier mon ami, commençez au commencement.-LE BÉLIER. I'll take it up for pity.-WINTER'S TALE.

ONE of the prettiest houses in the neighbourhood of the picturesque village of Wilverton, in Wiltshire, was Bloomfield Lodge, the residence of the Reverend Mr. Stanhope, vicar of the above-mentioned place. Standing upon a sloping green, at the base of which flowed a little streamlet, its light and elegant structure failed not to attract the attention of every traveller who passed on the high road, to the very brink of whose shelving banks its large and tastefully

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