A NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "CECIL HYDE." IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET. M.DCCC.XXXV. HARRY CALVERLEY. CHAPTER I. Good looks, good manners, good spirits, and a good temper, powerfully seconded by the prospect of a baronetcy with fifteen thousand a-year, and the actual command of a troop in the th Lancers, had made Harry Calverley, at six-and-twenty, one of the most popular individuals in the lounging, dining, dancing, and flirting world of London. Chaperons hailed him as an eligible; young ladies blushed their approval of him, as cavalier; elderly gentlemen esteemed him as a man of sense, and a good listener (often VOL. I. B convertible terms); young dandies voted him a capital dresser, and a first-rate judge of horseflesh; while all agreed in pronouncing him a most unaffected and unexceptionable specimen of the genus homo, and the species lancer. In what proportion the personal qualities of our hero combined with the circumstances of his social position, to produce these golden opinions, it would be difficult to ascertain; suffice it to say, that the world was tolerably accurate in its estimate of the former, while, with respect to the latter, it jumped at once to a conclusion far more satisfactory than logical. Harry Calverley's father lived at the rate of six thousand a-year; ergo, Harry was the eldest son of a man of large fortune: his uncle, Sir Hugh, was childless, and fifty-six; ergo, Harry could not fail to succeed to his title and large estates. These facts being admitted, it followed, as a necessary conse quence, that Harry Calverley was highly deserving of patronage, and wel virtly the attention of the "curions in enrivier.”— Q.E.D. But, alas! one short moech sufficed a shame the logic of the world, nd vis round the barometer of poor Harry & prospects from "set fair" to Calverley, père, who was an en bout de ciple of Ude, died one morning in his vocetion, after a gallant, but too ardent, aut on a páté de joie gras. A sieture of jour thousand a-year in the Court of Chancen, conferred upon him in early He by a Lari Chancellor uncle, passed away f family, at his death. Sa extravagance, that, ca had been ha his affairs, his debts proved suddedy extensive to swallow up the wake of the sum for which he had red his De, obtaining his appointment; and all that mained for the maintenance of a . |