Produced by Annie McGuire. This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print archive. [Illustration: Book Cover] GARRICK'S PUPIL. GARRICK'S PUPIL By AUGUSTIN FILON _Translated by_ J. V. PRICHARD Illustrated [Illustration] CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & COMPANY 1893 COPYRIGHT, BY A. C. MCCLURG & CO. A. D. 1893. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. PAINTER AND MODEL 7 II. A SUPPER AT SIR JOSHUA'S 22 III. LADY VEREKER'S BOUDOIR 33 IV. THE BROOKS CLUB 42 V. A STRANGE EDUCATION 58 VI. THE HOUSE IN TOTHILL FIELDS 71 VII. CONFIDENCES 81 VIII. MR. FISHER'S SUBSTITUTE 97 IX. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 106 X. DEATH TO THE PAPISTS 117 XI. THE DAY OF DAYS 132 XII. THE MASQUERADE AT THE PANTHEON 143 XIII. MOWBRAY'S FOLLY AT CHELSEA 156 XIV. VAIN QUESTS 171 XV. SANCTUARY 184 XVI. GAMES OF DEATH AND CHANCE 194 XVII. HORACE AND SHAKESPEARE 208 CHAPTER I. PAINTER AND MODEL. Just as the third hour of the afternoon had sounded from the belfry of Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, a hackney coach drew up before the most pretentious mansion upon the west side of Leicester Fields; and while the coachman hastened to agitate the heavy door-knocker, a young woman, almost a child, sprang out upon the pavement without waiting to have the shaky steps unfolded and lowered for her convenience. Her dust-colored mantle, disarranged by her rapid movements, revealed a rich costume beneath; while the dazzled passer-by might have caught a glimpse, amidst the whiteness of the elevated skirts, of a tiny pair of red satin slippers and two slender, exquisitely moulded ankles finely clad in silken hose with embroidered clocks. The girl turned and assisted a more aged woman, leaning upon a crutch-headed cane, to descend. This lady wore the big straw bonnet and gray gown of the Quaker persuasion,--a rigidly simple costume, which occasionally is becoming to extreme youth, but rarely enhances maturer charms.