A NOVEL.

BY HENRY G. AINSLIE YOUNG, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

THOMAS CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER,

30, WELBECK ST., CAVENDISH SQ.,

1853.

249. y. 155.

FRANK MERRY WEATHER.

CHAPTER I.

When a man can contest the point by dint
of equipage, and carry all on floundering be-
fore him with half a dozen of lackies and a
couple of cooks-tis very well in such a place
as Paris, he may
drive in at which end of a
street he will.

Sterne's Sentimental Journey.

THE severe loss which Mr. Munroe had experienced soon after his arrival at Ulvacombe, suspended only for a short

time the ambitious views he had cherished in the East, and with the prosecution of which his return to England was so intimately associated. Indeed, the death of Mrs. Munroe, by depriving him of a companion, who not only exercised a permanent and important influence over his actions, but whose amiable disposition had insensibly won him from his ordinary pursuits, added to the absence of all those stirring incidents and motives for exertion which had been the daily food of his mind for so many years, left him more completely than ever a prey to that morbid yearning for distinction with which he had been so long pre-occupied.

This feeling had in no slight degree been increased by an intimation from Lord Carlbrook, that his eldest son, Lord Marsdale, was desirous, if agreeable to Mr. Munroe, to pay his addresses to his daughter. But scarcely had he become aware of the views entertained by his new and distinguished acquaintance,

when, just as he was about to assure Lord Marsdale that every opportunity should be afforded him for the prosecution of his suit, he was dismayed by Merryweather's avowal of the feeling that had grown up between his cousin and himself. His anger on that occasion has already been related, but after Merryweather's departure, he established sufficient control over himself to maintain a profound silence for several days on the subject which had so strongly excited his disapprobation. When however he ascertained beyond a doubt that his nephew had actually left England, he one morning took the opportunity of his sister and daughter being present to express his extreme displeasure. After repeating what he had himself said to Merryweather, he continued-"I have just cause to complain of you, Dorothy, for had you attended more to the duties which your position imposed upon you, and in the performance of which it is far more