A NOVEL. BY MRS GORE, AUTHOR OF "MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS," "STORY OF A ROYAL FAVOURITE," ETC. "Ce gros Suisse ayant apporté dans sa cabane un panier rempli de grenouilles, "Ma foi,' répondit-il, tant pis pour eux."" MEMOIRES DE MONTLUC. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1846. PEERS AND PARVENUS. CHAPTER I. Quant è bella giovinezza, Di doman non è certezza!— LORENZO DI MEDICI. "Is Lord John Howard really riding to-day?" inquired Cleve of Fairfax, as they were returning late in the afternoon, or rather early in the evening, a few days after the foregoing conversation, from an archæological expedition to the islands of Torcello and Mazorbo. "Certainly!-The duke called for him before I set out. As the Clevelands are staying at the same hotel with him, they VOL. II. B |