Chapter 22
LETTER FROM ALFRED. This appears to have been written some months after the vacation spent at the Hills. 'Oh! thoughtless mortals, ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.' "You remember, I am sure, my dear father, how angry we were some time ago with that man, whose name I never would tell you, the man whom Rosamond called Counsellor Nameless, who snatched a good point from me in arguing Mr. Hauton's cause. This very circumstance has been the means of introducing me to the notice of three men, all eminent in their profession, and each with the same inclination to serve me, according to their respective powers--a solicitor, a barrister, and a judge. Solicitor Babington (by-the-by, pray tell Rosamond in answer to her question whether there is an honest attorney, that t
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