ABSTRACT
Lord Torrendale had entered life with good principles and respectable abilities, unaccompanied by those keen sensibilities and perceptions, which, according as they are directed, lead their possessor to glory and happiness, or to misery and disgrace. Having been commissioned by his father, to fall in love with a young lady, whose estate was near his own of Strathallan, in Scotland, he had complied with the injunction, so far as making formal proposals, which were as formally accepted; and he found himself the unconscious possessor of a treasure, in the person of a lady, whose mind was of that superior temper, which he could not appreciate, and whose form, though lovely, was not the ‘kind of loveliness calculated to touch his heart.’
