MASSENBURG.

VOLUM
VOLUME II.

Luke Hansard & Sons,

near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, London.

A TALE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

Is not the life of woman all bound up
In her affections? What hath she to do
In this bleak world alone? It may be well
For man on his triumphal course to move,
Uncumber'd by soft bonds; but we were born
For love and grief.
HEMANS.

VOLUME II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, STRAND;

AND W. BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH.

M DCCC XXV.

MASSENBURG.

CHAPTER I.

Ye fairy prospects, then,

Ye beds of roses, and ye bowers of joy,

Farewel!

THOMSON.

WHEN Mr. Graham announced to his son and daughter, his intention of leaving Douglas Grange in the course of the ensuing day, they were filled with astonishment at the hasty resolution.

"But, dear papa," said Miss Jemima,

surely not, not so soon as to-morrow! I have planned a thousand things to do with Miss Massenburg."

"And she may have planned things, which she can better do without you."