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The Novels of Charles Lever V.1- the Confessions of Harry Lorrequer..
The Novels of Charles Lever V1 the Confessions of Harry Lorrequer Author:Charles Lever Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: city life—the pursuits which a long career had made a second nature to him—rendered him both unfit to enter upon the less exciting duties of a country gentleman'... more »s existence, and made him regard such as devoid of interest or amusement. He continued, therefore, to reside in London for many years after he became a baronet; and it was only at the death of his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, that these habits became distasteful; he found that he could no longer continue a course which companionship and mutual feeling had rendered agreeable, and he resolved at once to remove to some one of his estates, where a new sphere of occupation might alleviate the sorrows of his loss. To this no obstacle of any kind existed. His only son was already launched into life as an officer in the Guards; and, except his daughter, so lately before the reader, he had no other children. The effort to attain forgetfulness was not more successful here than it is usually found to be. The old man sought, but found not, in a country life the solace he expected; neither his tastes nor his habits suited those of his neighbours ; he was little of a sportsman, still less of a farmer. The intercourse of country social life was a poor recompense for the unceasing flow of London society. He grew wearied very soon of his experiment, and longed once more to return to his old haunts and habits. One more chance, however, remained for him, and he was unwilling to reject it without a trial. This was, to visit Ireland, where he possessed a large estate, which he had never seen. The property, originally mortgaged to his father, was represented as singularly picturesque and romantic, possessing great mineral wealth, and other resources never examined into nor made available. His agent, Captain Hemsworth, a gentleman...« less