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B.G. Witchings

A TALE

OF

FASHIONABLE LIFE.

However we do praise ourselves,

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,

More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,

Than women's are.

SHAKSPEARE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1827.

A. J. VALPY, RED LION COURT FLEET STREET.

HYDE NUGENT.

CHAP. I.

Sit down: the hour's now come:

The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
Obey, and be attentive.

SHAKSPEARE.

We must now return to town, where the late sad affair had cast a gloom over the Nugent family, especially Louisa, whose marriage with Lord Iford it caused to be for a while postponed. Louisa Nugent was a person possessed very acute feelings, and the highest delicacy

of

VOL. III.

A

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