THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE

By Charles James Lever

With Illustrations By Phiz.

In Two Volumes

Vol. I.

Boston: Little, Brown, And Company

1899.

TO ALEXANDER SPENCER, ESQ.

If the public would only prove as indulgent to the faults and demerits of this volume as You have ever been to those of him who wrote it, I should be as sanguine of its success as I am now happy in dedicating it to the Oldest Friend I

HAVE IN THE WORLD.

Ever yours, most affectionately,

Charles Lever.

Schloss-Riedenburg, Tyrol,

June 20, 1847.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE.

CHAPTER I.   A FIRESIDE GROUP

CHAPTER II.   A TRAVELLING ACQUAINTANCE

CHAPTER III.   GWYNNE ABBEY

CHAPTER IV.   THE DINNER-PARTY

CHAPTER V.   AN AFTER-DINNER STORY

CHAPTER VI.   A MESSAGE

CHAPTER VII.   A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

CHAPTER VIII.   THE "HEAD" OF A FAMILY

CHAPTER IX.   "DALY'S."

CHAPTER X.   AN INTRIGUE DETECTED

CHAPTER XI.   THE KNIGHT AND HIS AGENT

CHAPTER XII.   A FIRST VISIT

CHAPTER XIII.   A TREATY REJECTED

CHAPTER XIV.   "THE MECHANISM OP CORRUPTION"

CHAPTER XV.   THE KNIGHT'S NOTIONS OF FINANCE

CHAPTER XVI.   A HURRIED VISIT

CHAPTER XVII.   BAGENAL DALY'S JOURNEY TO DUBLIN

CHAPTER XVIII.   LORD CASTLEREAGH'S DINNER-PARTY

CHAPTER XIX.   A DAY OF EXCITEMENT

CHAPTER XX.   THE ADJOURNED DEBATE

CHAPTER XXI.   TWO OF A TRADE

CHAPTER XXII.   "A WARNING" AND "A PARTING."

CHAPTER XXIII.   SOME SAD REVELATIONS

CHAPTER XXIV.   A GLANCE AT "THE FULL MOON."

CHAPTER XXV.   BAGENAL DALY'S COUNSELS

CHAPTER XXVI.   "THE CORVY."

CHAPTER XXVII.   THE KNIGHT'S RETURN

CHAPTER XXVIIII.   THE HUNT-BREAKFAST

CHAPTER XXIX.   THE HUNT

CHAPTER XXX.   BAGENAL DALY'S VISITORS

CHAPTER XXXI.   "A LEAVE-TAKING."

CHAPTER XXXII.   "SAD DISCLOSURES."

CHAPTER XXXIII.