THE FREAKS OF CUPID: A NOVEL. BY AN IRISH BACHELOR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: T. C. NEWBY, PUBLISHER, FREAKS OF CUPID. CHAPTER I. PREFATORY. WHICH EVERYBODY WHO LIKES MAY READ, AND WHICH, I HOPE, EVERYBODY WHO READS MAY LIKE. Kind public-kind by anticipation, I mean; for, as yet, I have experienced no favour at your hands-before I commence the recital of the story which you are about to read, and which I forewarn you will abound in all manner of touching incidents and deeply pathetical passages, I will, with your good leave-or without it, if you |