OR, MEMOIRS OF TWO NOBLE FAMILIES. A NOVEL, IN THREE VOLUMES. BY MRS. BYRON, AUTHOR OF ANTI-DELPHINE. YOL. III. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn; good and ill together: Shakespeare. DRELINCOURT AND RODALVI. CHAP. XXXV. Smiles on past misfortune's brow, While hope prolongs our happier hour Still where rosy pleasure leads, The hues of bliss more brightly glow GRAY. IN the Earl's present frame of mind, the gaieties of London disgusted, and business seemed irksome to him. He was too tenderly beloved by his family, for his wishes not to be theirs; and at his VOL. III. desire B |