Tales of a Tourist

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ...of a stranger at Meadowscourt, bearing the name of the man whose conduct disturbed the happiest days of my youth, recalled to my mind the memory of those days; I found I was not deceived in my first pressentiments respecting Mr. Montfort. He was indeed the son of Montfort and Sophia. What further particulars I have to tell you, I learnt from his own lips, and he learnt them from his mother. The honourable Mr. Montfort was nephew and and heir to the late marquis of Beaudesert. "Hopeless of obtaining his uncle's approbation of his precipitate marriage with a portionless foreigner, he did not attempt it, but conveyed Sophia to a retreat so retired, that the most watchful suspicion could not have discovered her, and forbade all intercourse by letter with her former friends. She inhabited a cottage amidst the romantie mountains of Mourne; and there Ferdinand Montfort passed the first seven years of his existence. His father had calculated that the death of the marquis of Beaudesert, who appeared in a declining state of health, would have soon put an end to the necessity of concealment; but the event disappointed his expectations. "Wearied with the solicitations of lord Beaudesert, on whom he entirely depended, and who, believing him free, was perpetually urging him to marry, Montfort resolved to go abroad again, taking with him Ferdinand and Sophia. At BrusB 3 sels sels Sophia met her mother, now a widow, and in very indifferent circumstances. So deeply did my poor friend reproach herself for her former breach of duty, that she besought her husband to let her accompany madame Walstein, who was returning to Hanover, and to let her spend that time with her mother which Montfort meant to dedicate to visiting Italy. To this he consented; and from...