MOUNT ROYAL

A Novel

BY THE AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET" ETC. ETC. ETC.

In Three Volumes

VOL. II.

LONDON
JOHN AND ROBERT MAXWELL
MILTON HOUSE, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET
1882

Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH
CHANDOS STREET, LONDON

CONTENTS TO VOL. II.

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	"LET ME AND MY PASSIONATE LOVE GO BY"	1
II.	"ALAS FOR ME THEN, MY GOOD DAYS ARE DONE"	16
III.	"GRIEF A FIXED STAR, AND JOY A VANE THAT VEERS"	25
IV.	"LOVE WILL HAVE HIS DAY"	49
V.	"BUT HERE IS ONE WHO LOVES YOU AS OF OLD"	87
VI.	"THAT LIP AND VOICE ARE MUTE FOR EVER"	115
VII.	"NOT THE GODS CAN SHAKE THE PAST"	131
VIII.	"I HAVE PUT MY DAYS AND DREAMS OUT OF MIND"	149
IX.	"AND PALE FROM THE PAST WE DRAW NIGH THEE"	164
X.	"BUT IT SUFFICETH, THAT THE DAY WILL END"	203
XI.	"WHO KNOWS NOT CIRCE?"	241
XII.	"AND TIME IS SETTING WI' ME, O"	276

MOUNT ROYAL.

CHAPTER I.

"LET ME AND MY PASSIONATE LOVE GO BY."

That second week of July was not altogether peerless weather. Itcontained within the brief span of its seven days one of those suddenand withering changes which try humanity more than the hardest winter,with which ever Transatlantic weather-prophet threatened our island. Thesultry heat of a tropical Tuesday was followed by the blighting eastwind of a chilly Wednesday; and in the teeth of that keen east wind,blowing across the German Ocean, and gathering force among thePentlands, Angus Hamleigh set forth from the cosy shelter of Hillside,upon a long day's salmon fishing.

His old kinswoman's health had considerably improved since his arrival;but she was not yet so entirely restored to her normal condition as tobe willing that he should go back to London. She pleaded

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