MOUNT ROYAL

A Novel

BY THE AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET" ETC. ETC. ETC.

In Three Volumes

VOL. III.

LONDON
JOHN AND ROBERT MAXWELL
MILTON HOUSE, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET
1882

Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH
CHANDOS STREET, LONDON

CONTENTS TO VOL. III.

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	"WITH SUCH REMORSELESS SPEED STILL COME NEW WOES"	1
II.	"YOURS ON MONDAY, GOD'S TO-DAY"	26
III.	DUEL OR MURDER?	43
IV.	"DUST TO DUST"	57
V.	"PAIN FOR THY GIRDLE, AND SORROW UPON THY HEAD"	81
VI.	"I WILL HAVE NO MERCY ON HIM"	91
VII.	"GAI DONC, LA VOYAGEUSE, AU COUP DU PÈLERIN!"	129
VIII.	"TIME TURNS THE OLD DAYS TO DERISION"	143
IX.	"THOU SHOULDST COME LIKE A FURY CROWNED WITH SNAKES"	172
X.	"HIS LADY SMILES; DELIGHT IS IN HER FACE"	189
XI.	"LOVE BORE SUCH BITTER AND DEADLY FRUIT"	223
XII.	"SHE STOOD UP IN BITTER CASE, WITH A PALE YET STEADY FACE"	257
XIII.	WE HAVE DONE WITH TEARS AND TREASONS	301

MOUNT ROYAL.

CHAPTER I.

"WITH SUCH REMORSELESS SPEED STILL COME NEW WOES."

The next morning was damp, and grey, and mild, no autumn wind stirringthe long sweeping branches of the cedars on the lawn, the dead leavesfalling silently, the world all sad and solemn, clad in universalgreyness. Christabel was up early, with her boy, in thenursery—watching him as he splashed about his bath, and emerged rosyand joyous, like an infant river-god sporting among the rushes; early atfamily prayers in the dining room, a ceremony at which Mr. Tregonellrarely assisted, and to which Dopsy and Mopsy came flushed andbreathless with hurry, anxious to pay al

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