ABSTRACT
LADY JAMES MARAUDER was inconsolable: every prospect of being a Duchess was gone for ever. Mr. Marauder, who was summoned to England upon the occasion, bore his loss with more philosophy – an early prognostic of an elevated and superior mind, which had not in vain imbibed the stoical principle. Amid the infallible arguments by which he conquered his grief, it did not escape him that he was one step nearer the title. /
