First Love: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 3

About six months after the death of Lady L., Mrs. Montgomery, in looking over papers of all descriptions, which had accumulated on her dressing-table, while she had been unable...

"Thou, fairer than the spirit of the hills, And blooming as the bow of the shower, With thy soft hair, floating round thy beauty Thus, like the bright curling mist of Cona, Hast...

When Edmund retired to rest, all his ideas were in such a state of confusion, that sleep was absolutely out of the question. He found it equally impossible to arrange his though...

"Lifting at The thought my timid eyes, I pass them o'er His brow; and, if I would, I dare not love him: Yet, dare I never disobey that eye, Flashing outward fires, while, within...

Lady L. had not increased her family since the birth of the twins, and they were, by this time, between four and five years old. Her ladyship now, however, expected to do so, an...

Let those who are fond of dramatizing their ideas, picture to themselves the scene opening, and displaying the wardroom of the Erina; its centre occupied by a long breakfast-tab...

From the evening of the birth of Lady L.'s babies, it was evident that our hero, though not yet seven years old, no longer thought himself little. He assumed a manly air and car...

"From ocean's mist, the white-sailed fleet arose! First, a ridge of clouds it seemed; but brighter Shone the sun--and the distant ships stood forth, Their wet sides glittering i...

We left the family at Lodore House enjoying, we hope, the refreshment of a good night's rest. The next morning Frances, before she thought of breakfast, repaired to the bedside...

There happened to be a young man at this time expected in the village, who had received his early education at S-- B-- school, and who had been, for many years, the mate in misc...

Meanwhile the unamiable Henry, every time he returned from his school for the vacations, was filled with fresh envy and hatred on beholding Edmund more and more established in t...

"Yes, sweet boy, Clara will be thy mother. Thou hast thus her first of mother's feelings; Even should there rise, to claim her fondness, Other beings like to thee: innocents, He...

"Fruits, abundant as the southern vintage, O'erspread the board, and please the wand'ring eye, As each, from its moist and globular side, Reflects a ray, varied by its native hu...

At this time there was no passing in any sea-port, but before three captains. Oscar and Edmund, therefore, proceeded to town. The anxious hour, big with the fate of many a middy...

A family of travelling vagrants were overtaken on the high road just leading out of Keswick, on the Penrith side, by a gentleman on horseback. He had observed the same group beg...

The cheerful, well-aired, already lit up dwelling, now entered by our wanderers of the valley, formed a striking contrast to the dreary scene they had just left. An excellent fi...

Lord Arandale, the eldest brother of Mrs. Montgomery; his lady; their daughter, Lady Susan Morven; their son, Lord Morven; and a nephew, Colonel Morven, had all come from Scotla...

In the mean time preparations of every kind were making for Lady L.'s expected confinement. The doctor had an apartment assigned him, and now lived at Lodore House, lest his att...

We next find our hero, wrapped in a large boat cloak of blue camlet, lined with scarlet plush, and seated on the top of a mail coach; which, with more regard to expedition than...

The christening was quite a splendid festival. A number of friends and relations, among whom was Lady Theodosia R., became inmates of Lodore House for the occasion. All the neig...

The Euphrasia was detached from the fleet, with instructions to cruise in the Archipelago, and look out for, capture, sink, or otherwise destroy, a formidable Turkish corsair, w...

The sick nurse ought not to have been asleep. Yet it appears that she certainly must have slept; for when the sound of something like a door shutting made her start forward from...

"Thy fame, like the growing tree of the vale, Shall arise in its season, and thy deeds Shine like those of thy fathers. But go not Yet to the bloody strife; for thy young arm sc...

About the centre of the entrance of the vale of Borrowdale, conspicuously situated, stands that curious rock, called, by the native Cumbrians, Borrowdale-stane. In form and posi...

Although the conversation related in our last chapter, was not, as we have already hinted, held between the parties till thirteen years after the present era, owing to the nurse...

His lordship received our hero with the greatest cordiality, saying, he was happy to have it in his power to show any mark of attention, however trifling, to the young friend of...

Mrs. Montgomery received an account, in the morning, from Mrs. Smyth, of how good Edmund had been, and of his having become so great a favourite, not only with the good doctor,...

In one of the streets of Keswick stood an old, gloomy, but respectable house. In this house was a small back parlour, receiving light from a back lane, and surrounded with shelv...

"Through the wide heaving of the strife, Are the strides of Fingall, like some strong ship Cutting through wintry seas. The dark tumbling Of death, the gleams of broken steel, m...

In about six weeks the marriage of Frances and Lord L-- took place, and the happy couple set off for Beech Park, his lordship's seat, near London. Within the following ten days...

"Here, Alice, bairn, here, tack it fray me; and mind ye, mack it light and flecky, like to the leaves o' a reading buke," cried our old friend, Mrs. Smyth; who stood up to her e...

A few days after the fleet under the command of Lord Fitz-Ullin had arrived on its station, the Glorious, Edmund's old ship, joined, and making the usual signal for a lieutenant...

A few days more, and our hero's ship, the Glorious, was on the high seas. It was night. Edmund had had the early watch--had been relieved--had retired to his hammock--had fallen...

Henry, left on the beach, with his chest beside him, slept heavily for some hours. When he awoke it was night. He lay on the shingles. He felt the fresh breath of the breeze, as...