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    RANK AND TALENT;

    A NOVEL.

    BY THE

    AUTHOR OF "TRUCKLEBOROUGH-HALL."


    When once he's made a Lord,
    Who'll be so saucy as to think he can
    Be impotent in wisdom?

    COOK.

    Why, Sir, 'tis neither satire nor moral, but the mere passage
    of an history; yet there are a sort of discontented creatures,
    that bear a stingless envy to great ones, and these will wrest
    the doings of any man to their base malicious appliment.

    MARSTON.


    IN THREE VOLUMES.
    VOL. II.


    LONDON:
    HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
    1829.




RANK AND TALENT.




CHAPTER I.

  "Why, Valentine, what braggardism is this!"

  SH