By

A NOVEL.

Lady Maria Theresa Lister, he wis

EDITED BY

THE COUNTESS OF MORLEY.

Un ouvrage d'imagination ne doit pas avoir un bût moral, mais un
résultat moral. Il doit ressembler, à cet égard, à la vie humaine, qui n'a
pas un bût, mais qui toujours a un résultat dans lequel la morale trouve
nécessairement sa place.
BENJAMIN CONSTANT.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

The company is "mix'd" (the phrase I quote is
As much as saying, they're beneath your notice).

BYRON.

"I WONDER at what time we may expect Mr. Dacre," exclaimed Mrs. Plummer, as she folded up her work, and drew her chair towards the fire, in order to give herself up wholly to the pleasures of what she called "a comfortable bit of talk:" but every body was so accustomed to hear Mrs. Plummer wonder about all coming