HESTER A STORY OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE BY MRS. OLIPHANT HESTER Charles Lamb. Charles Lamb. IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. II VOL. II London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1883 The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, BREAD STREET HILL. R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor CONTENTS. HESTER. HESTER. CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG AND THE OLD. "I like your Roland," said Miss Vernon. She had come to pay one of her usual visits to her old relations. The grandson whom Hester had made acquaintance with without seeing his face, had now been nearly a week at the Vernonry and was known to everybody about. The captain's precautions had, of course, come to nothing. He had gone, as in duty bound, to pay his respects to the great lady who was his relation too, though in a far-off degree, and he had pleased her. Catherine thought of nothing less than of giving a great pleasure to her old friends by her praise. "He is full of news and information, which is a godsend to us country folks, and he is very good-looking, qui ne gâte rien."
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