TRECOTHICK BOWER.

A TALE..

Printed by J. Darling, 31, Leadenhall-Street, London, 1

OR, THE

LADY OF THE WEST COUNTRY.

A Tale.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY

REGINA MARIA ROCHE,

AUTHOR OF

THE CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY; DISCARDED SON; HOUSES OF
OSMA AND ALMERIA; MONASTERY OF ST. COLUMB;
VICAR OF LANSDOWNE, &c. &c.

TRECOTHICK BOWER.

CHAP. I.

I fancy

I'm now turn'd wild, a commoner of nature,

Of all forsaken, and forsaking all:

Live in a shady forest's sylvan scene;

Stretch'd at my length beneath some blasted oak,,

Í lean my head upon the mossy bank,

And look just of a piece, as I grew from it. DRYDEN.

THIS was an evidence too strong of the truth of Hardwick's statement to permit a lingering doubt to remain any longer of. it; and dropping it from his trembling hand, Edmund, covering his eyes, resigned himself to all that despair and desolation of feeling which the impassioned heart of youthful

VOL. II.

B