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A NOVEL.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
II.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR HUNT AND CLARKE,
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1828.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY C. H. REYNELL, BROAD STREET, GOLDEN SQUARE.
PENELOPE:
OR,
LOVE’S LABOUR LOST.
Lord Spoonbill was not less disappointed thanthe Countess of Smatterton, to hear that Penelopewas in daily expectation of seeing her father.Hereditary legislators are sometimes perplexed,and in the present case the son of the Earl ofSmatterton was in a state of grievous doubt andagitation.
His object in the first instance had been totake Penelope under his protection, and he supposedthat if the correspondence between her[2]and Robert Darnley could be broken off, therewould be very little difficulty in inducing her tocomply with his proposals. For it was his intentionto make a most liberal settlement and toplace her in a very handsome establishment.Living as he had always in splendour, andenjoying the luxuries and ostentation of wealth,though accustomed to them from his birth, h