EUSTACE CONWAY.

VOL. II.

OR,

THE BROTHER AND SISTER.

A NOVEL.

"Il est dangereux de trop faire voir à l'homme combien il est égal anx
bêtes, sans lui montrer sa grandeur. Il est encore dangereux de lui faire
trop voir sa grandeur, sans sa bassesse. Il est encore plus dangereux de lui
laisser ignorer l'un et l'autre. Mais il est très avantageux de lui repré-
senter l'un et l'autre."
PASCAL.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

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LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN.

1834.

PRINTED BY A. J. VALPY,

RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

THE

BROTHER AND SISTER.

CHAPTER I.

I have not from your eyes that gentleness,
And show of love, as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.

SHAKSPEARE.

I MENTIONED before, that Caroline Duncan and Honoria were the only female guests at Mr. Hartenfield's. As soon as the former set out on her unfortunate journey, Mrs. Hartenfield, who had spent the previous hour with her alone, joined our heroine in the drawing-room. She had passed the time there in such painful reflections, that though her friend's countenance indicated dis

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