IXMadeline Graham.
“The lady, in truth, was young, fair & gentle.”
Robert Lytton: Lucile.
Since his parting with Georgie Rivers, & the disappointment of his love, Guy Hastings had been, as Jack expressed it: “going rapidly to the dogs.” Now there are many modes of travelling on this road; the melodramatic one in which the dark-browed hero takes to murder, elopement, & sedition; the commonplace one in which drinking, gambling & duelling are prominent features; the precipitate one of suicide; & finally that one which Guy himself had chosen. He did not kill himself, as we have seen, nor did he run away with anyone, or fight a duel, or drink hard; but he seemed to grow careless of life, money & health, & to lose whatever faith & tenderness he had had in a sort of undefined skepticism. Perha
