“I wish Frances,” said Mrs. Seymour, “you would call people by their right names. The young man you call Lord Glenarvon, has no claim to that title; his grandfather was a traitor; his father was a poor miserable exile, who was obliged to enter the Navy by way of gaining a livelihood; his mother was a woman of very doubtful character (as she said this she looked towards Lady Mandeville); and this young man, educated nobody knows how, having passed his time in a foreign country, nobody knows where, from whence he was driven it seems by his crimes, is now unfortunately arrived here to pervert and mislead others, to disseminate his wicked doctrines amongst an innocent but weak people, and to spread the flames of rebellion, already kindled in other parts of the Island. Oh, he is a dishonour to his sex; and it makes me mad to see how you all run after him, and forget both dignity and modesty, to catch a glimpse of him.” “What sort of looking man is he, dear aunt?” said Calantha. “Frightful—mean,” said Mrs. Seymour. “His stature is small,” said Lady Mandeville; “but his eye is keen and his voice is sweet and tunable. Lady Avondale believe me, he is possessed of that persuasive language, which never fails to gain upon its hearers. Take heed to your heart: remember my words,—beware of the young Glenarvon.” Gondimar, after the first salutation upon entering the room, joined in the conversation; but he spoke with bitterness of the young Lord; and upon Lady Trelawney’s attempting to say a few words in his favour, “Hear Sir Everard on this subject,” said the Count—“only hear what he thinks of him.” “I fear,” said Sophia, “that all these animadversions will prevent our going to-morrow, as we proposed, to see the Priory.” “Nothing shall prevent me,” replied Lady Augusta. “I only beg,” said Mrs. Seymour “that I may not be of the party, as the tales of horror I have heard concerning the inhabitants of St. Alvin Priory, from old Lord de Ruthven, at Belfont Abbey, prevent my having the smallest wish or curiosity to enter its gates.”