ABSTRACT
Lady Monteith’s fortitude was so severely tried by her consciousness of the motives which occasioned her lord’s hasty departure for London, that she found it necessary immediately to adopt Fitzosborne’s advice of returning to Scotland, lest the sorrows of her afflicted heart should sometimes disdain the disguise which filial piety induced her to assume. Her parting with her father was marked by circumstances of peculiar tenderness. I shall not, however, draw from them any ominous / predictions. Sir William’s advanced age and increasing infirmities on the one hand, and his lovely daughter’s depressed spirits on the other, may account for this acute sensibility without ascribing to either the powers of prescience.
