THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK
By Pierce Egan
In Three Volumes
Vol. II.
London: W. S. Johnson & Co.
1865
CONTENTS
CHAPTER II.—THE DREADFUL SECRET.
CHAPTER III.—THE STRICKEN DEER.
CHAPTER IV.—THE ASSAULT AND THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER V.—THE GOLD AND THE ALLOY.
CHAPTER VI.—THE COVETED HEART BESTOWED.
CHAPTER IX.—LESTER VANE AND VIVIAN.
CHAPTER X.—THE OLD MAN AND HIS DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER XI.—THE UNPLEASANT CONFERENCE.
CHAPTER XII.—LESTER VANE AND HELEN.
FLOWER OF THE FLOCK
CHAPTER I.—SUITORS
And art thou then, fond youth, secure of joy?
Can no reverse thy flattering bliss destroy?
Has treacherous Love no torment yet in store?
Or hast thou never proved his fatal power P
Whence flow’d those tears that late bedew’d thy cheek?
Why sigh’d thy heart as if it strove to break?
Why were the desert rocks invok’d to hear
The plaintive accent of thy sad despair?
Lyttleton.
It was, as we have seen, through, the remarkable and unexpected return of Colonel Mires to England, and the no less singular circumstance of the rencontre in the Queen’s Bench, that old Wilton was reinstated in the position from which years back he had been, by the harsh rigour of the law, ruthlessl