Marriage

CHAPTER I.

"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness."

_Alexander and Campaspe._

"COME hither, child," said the old Earl of Courtland to his daughter, as, in obedience to his summons, she entered his study; "come hither, I say; I wish to have some serious conversation with you...