A TALE OF THE TIMES. BY THE AUTHOR OF A GOSSIP'S STORY. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO MRS. CARTER. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. Nor fhall the pile of hope God's mercy rear'd, Eternity, by all or wifh'd or fear'd, Shall be by all or fuffer'd or enjoy'd. MASON'S Elegy on the Death of Lady Coventry. THE THIRD EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, PRINTERS-STREET, FOR T. N. LONGMAN, AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW. TALE OF THE TIMES. CHAP. XVIII. O, how canft thou renounce the boundless store THE intereft which the appearance and behaviour of Mr. Powerfcourt had excited in Lord Monteith's mind had more permanence than the fudden emotions to which his difpofition was fubject commonly poffeffed. His evanefcent im VOL.I. B pulfes |