ABSTRACT
While lady Monteith exerted all the powers of her mind to enjoy fame and to diffuse happiness, and her beloved Lucy Evans pursued the humbler but surer path of conscientiously endeavouring to discharge her duty to God and man, lady Arabella Macdonald, already embarked on the sea of gaiety and dissipation, applied all her thoughts to the attainment of two doubtful blessings, a husband and a coronet. 219
