ABSTRACT
Fleetwood, the only son of a gentleman who has retired from mercantile concerns to the enjoyment of a liberal fortune, is born and educated among the mountains of Wales. Fleetwood being of course a passionate admirer of the beauties of nature, preferred scrambling over the heights of Cader Idris, adoring the rising, and admiring the setting sun, to perusing the pages of Plato, and the poetry of his tutor. The host of Fleetwood carries him to a pleasure party on the lake of Uri, and chuses that time and place to acquaint him, that while he was living jollily at Paris, his father had taken the opportunity of dying quietly in Merionethshire. At Paris, the deserted Russigny is patronized by Fleetwood, the grandfather of the hero. His future connexion with that family is marked with reciprocal acts of that romantic generosity, which is so common in novels and so very rare in real life.
