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                              FIRST LOVE.

                                A NOVEL
                           IN THREE VOLUMES.


                                VOL. I.


                                LONDON:
                  SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.

                                 1830.




  LONDON:
  IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY-STREET, STRAND.




All the mottoes annexed to the chapters of this work, have been
selected from the Author's dramatic and other poetical works, not yet
published.




FIRST LOVE.




CHAPTER I.

  "No hut shelters Comala from the rain."


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