the whole story of the Old Buccaneer and Countess Fanny was retold, and it formed a terrific halo, presage of rains and hurricane tempest, over the girl the young earl had incomprehensibly espoused to discard.

Those two had a son and a daughter born aboard:--in wedlock, we trust.

The girl may be as wild a one as the mother.

She has a will as determined as her husband's.

She is offered Esslemont, the earl's Kentish mansion, for a residence, and she will none of it until she has him down in the east of London on his knees to entreat her.