Within Semis

An Frish Tale.

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BY

LADY MORGAN,

AUTHOR OF "FRANCE," "O'DONNEL," &c.

Know thus far forth:

By accident most strange, bountiful fortune,
Now, my dear lady, bath mine enemies
Brought to this shore: and by my prescience,
I find my zenith doth depend upon

A most auspicious star, whose influence,
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop.

SHAKESPEARE.

Les femmes ne sont pas trop d'humeur à pardonner de
certaines injures, et quand elles se promettent le plaisir de la
vengeance elles n'y vont pas de main-morte.

DE GRAMMONT.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT STREET, HANOVER SQUARE.

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B. CLARKE, Printer, Well Street, London.

FLORENCE MACARTHY.

CHAPTER I.

He seems to have the quotidian of love upon

him.

SHAKESPEARE.

I'll venture-for my new enlivened spirits prompt me.

MILTON.

GENERAL FITZWALTER was dressed for dinner a full hour before the usual time of assembling at Dunore Castle. All his motions were involuntarily accelerated : a feverish restlessness urged his most trivial actions: his whole existence had received a new impulsion by the operation of one unaccustomed and absorbing sentiment: an overpowering motive had unexpectedly sprung up to actuate his conduct, and the obedient