HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1855. 249.V.475. MAMMON; OR, THE HARDSHIPS OF AN HEIRESS. CHAPTER I. BE it not inferred from the churlishness ascribed by Blandhurst to Lynchcombe Hall, that Sir John Wraysbury was a niggard of his hospitalities. On the contrary, the new mansion was already as renowned for its pompous festivities, as became its gigantic proportions. All the great people of the county had been successively entertained under its roof; and hecatombs were served upon a service of plate emblazoned in relief with the Wraysbury arms, choice specimens of which had made the VOL. II. B |