BLIND OLIVE

OR

DR. GREYVILL'S INFATUATION

BY

SARSON

LONDON

S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO.

9 PATERNOSTER ROW

1489. f. 591

JUN 37

OXFORD

BLIND OLIVE;

OR,

DR. GREYVILL'S INFATUATION.

CHAPTER I.

"My soul is an enchanted boat,

Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;
And thine doth like an angel sit

Beside the helm conducting it,

While all the woods with melody are ringing."

SHELLEY.

Na small, neatly-furnished parlour, in a respectable lodging-house, Percy Terrace, Alnwick, a gentleman of some thirty or thirty-five years of age sits at the time our story commences, as if he is expecting some one.

Through the gloamin' we can see that he has a kind, intelligent face-not handsome, but manly in its rugged profile, deep set eyes, with