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CHETWYND CALVERLEY

By William Harrison Ainsworth,

Author Of “Constable Of The Tower,”

“Lord Mayor Of London,”

“The Tower Of London,”

“Cardinal Pole,” Etc.

New Edition.

Chapman And Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1877.




CHETWYND CALVERLEY.




INTRODUCTION.--THE YOUNG STEPMOTHER.

I. OUSELCROFT.

|One summer evening, Mildred Calverley, accounted the prettiest girl in
Cheshire, who had been seated in the drawing-room of her father's house,
Ouselcroft, near Daresbury, vainly trying to read, passed out from the
open French window, and made her way towards two magnificent cedars of
Lebanon, at the farther end of the lawn.

She was still pacing the lawn with distracted steps, when a well-known
voice called out to her, and a tall figure emerged from the shade of the
cedars, and Mildred uttered a cry of mingled surprise and delight.

“Is that you, Chetwynd?”

“Ay I don't you know your own brother, Mildred?”

And as they met, they embraced each other affectionately.

“Have you been here long, Chetwynd?” she asked. “Why didn't you come
into the house?”

“I didn't know whether I should be welcome, Mildred. Tell me how all is
going on?”

“Then you have not received my letters, addressed to Bellagio and Milan?
I wrote to tell you that papa is very seriously ill, and begged you to
return immediately. Did you get the letters?”

“No; in fact, I have heard nothing at all from any one of