By accident most strange, bountiful fortune,
Now, my dear lady, hath mine enemies
Brought to this shore; and by my prescience,
I find my zenith doth depend upon

A most auspicious star, whose influence,
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop.

SHAKESPEARE.

Les femmes ne sont pas trop d'humeur à pardonner de
certaines injures, et quand elles se promettent le plaisir de la
vengeance elles n'y vont pas de main-morte.

DE GRAMMONT.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

Second Edition.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT STREET, HANOVER SQUARE.

AN

16 FEB 1927 OXFORD

B. CLARKE, Printer, Well Street, London.

FLORENCE MACARTHY.

CHAPTER I.

The council shall hear it-It is a riot."

"Sir Hugh, persuade me not-will make a star-chamber matter of it."

To vouch this is no proof!

Without more certain and more overt test

Than these thin habits, and poor likelihoods of modern seeming, do prefer against him."

SHAKESPEARE.

LADY DUNORE, who, like sister Anne in Bluebeard, was stationed on the top of one of the castle turrets, alternately watched the approach of the expected prisoners in one direction, and that of their accusers and judges, Mr. Crawley and son, in another.