This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...of the schemers. How Miss Bellenden has so suddenly and unexpectedly made her appearance in this melee--some sagacious readers, and All the reviewers, will immediately ascertain to their own satisfaction--but, as we write for all classes and descriptions of persons, and not for conjurors alone, we will set ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...of the schemers. How Miss Bellenden has so suddenly and unexpectedly made her appearance in this melee--some sagacious readers, and All the reviewers, will immediately ascertain to their own satisfaction--but, as we write for all classes and descriptions of persons, and not for conjurors alone, we will set down the matter in the more orderly form of historical narrative--but we must reserve this for a separate chapter. CHAPTER VII. That Loo Bellenden was the daughter of Lord Harweden, may, by this time, be probably guessed--but how she became so completely dependent upon Mr Clement Dossiter remains to be explained, not only to our readers, but to the young lady herself. When the Countess of Harweden announced her unexpected pregnancy, it will be remembered, that, in her husband's confessions to Percy, his Lordship had resolved, for some family purposes, eoute qui coute, to have a son and heir. His plans, so ably seconded by Dossiter, it will be also recollected, were ultimately successful, and a male child was substituted for the daughter to which her Ladyship gave birth. As the lady was not to be admitted into the confidence of the confederates, there might have been a difficulty in convincing her, that she had produced twins--although there was none, under proper management, of satisfying her, that she had produced a boy instead of a girl. The immediate disposal of the legitimate offspring, therefore, devolved, as a matter of course, upon Mr Clement Dossiter, who received no other injunction respecting the discharge of his duty, than that the unfortunate child should be safely disposed of at a distance, and that every clew or trace connected with her birth should be carefully obliterated or concealed. The widow of an officer, distantly related...
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