ALICIA LEFANU,

GRAND-DAUGHTER TO THE LATE THOMAS SHERIDAN, M.A.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

Quando scende in nobil petto
E compagno un dolce affetto

Non rivale alla virtù :

Respirate, alme felici

E vi siano i Numi amici

Quanto avverso il ciel vi fù.

METASTASIO.-DEMETRIO.

London:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

R & R. Gilbert, Printers, St. John's Square, London.

STRATHALLAN.

CHAPTER I.

Ah! perdona at primo affetto,
Quest' accento sconsigliato,

Colpa fu del labbro usato,

A chimarti ognor così.

METASTASIO. LA CLEMENZA DI TITO.

'WHY need you venture your health and your life in that infected air, amidst that mingled mass of houses and graves called a great city; surrounded by the smoke and pestilent vapours of every different trade and manufactory; when, here, you can have leisure, independence, solitude, or society as you will?"

Such was Sowerby's abrupt exclamation, on Mrs. Melbourne's first hinting the necessity of her returning to London. He then