Ambition - by M.g. Lewis Author:M G. Lewis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE PEDIGREE. -- THE WILL. He maj not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself. Hamlet. AUGUSTUS George, Lord Arthur, was a Welsh nobleman of high family, great pride, and an extravagant turn of disposition, whom a contiuued run of ill luck at play had induced to stake his last acre, when the unexpected death of a distant relation, the Earl of Castle Gwynne, put him in possession of a princely fortune; which not only enabled him to redeem his forfeited estate, but to retreat from the campaign with honour. The lands of Arthur lying contiguous to those of Gwynne, they were united under the name of the Gwynne-Arthur Manor, and Lord Arthur assuming the joint vOL. I. C title of Lord Gwynne-Arthur, Earl of Castle Gwynne, in a short time took possession of his newly-acquired rights. From him the title mid estates descended, as unsullied in reputation as they were unimpoverished in wealth, through two or three generations, until they came into the possession of the father of ourpresent hero. This nobleman had lived a bachelor till the age of foriy, when, subdued by the force of beauty and accomplishments, he married the portionless daughter of Sir Charles B -- , a girl not mote' than eighteen years of age. The young countess possessed many good qualities, 'but she, as well as her father, was amhitious; a gbod'match had been their object, and they had 'succeeded. t -Lord Gwynne-Arthur loved his wife tenderly, a single look" from her might have commanded nib frdm east to west, aye, to the utmost limits of honour, but beyond those Hmita he never stepped. The countess" was generous where pri...« less