Produced by David Widger MAURICE TIERNAY SOLDIER OF FORTUNE By Charles James Lever The Novels Of Charles Lever Edited By His Daughter Illustrations by A. D. M’Cormick London Downey And Co., Limited 12 York St. Covent Garden 1898 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ‘Maurice Tiernay was first published as a serial in ‘The Dublin University Magazine,’ commencing in the issue for April 1850, and ending in the issue for December 1851. It was first published in book form (as a volume of The Parlour Library) with the following title-page (undated): Maurice Tiernay | The | Soldier of Fortune | By the Author of | ‘Sir Jasper Carew’ | etc. etc. I London, | Thomas Hodgson, | 13 Paternoster Bow. The earliest edition which has Lever’s name on the title-page is one published in Leipzig in 1861. This edition has the following title-page: Maurice Tiernay | the | Soldier of Fortune, | by | Charles Lever, I Author of ‘Charles O’Malley,’ etc. I Copyright Edition. | In two VOLUMES | VOL. I. | LEIPZIG | BERNHARD TAUCH-NITZ I 1861. NOTICE The strangeness of some of the incidents, and the rapidity with which events so remarkable succeeded each other, almost deterred the writer from ever committing them to the press; nor was it till after much consultation, and some persuasive influence on the part of friends, that he at length yielded and decided upon so doing. Whether in that determination his choice was a wise one, must be left to the judgment of the reader; for himself, he has but to say that to ponder over some of these early scenes, and turn over, in thought, some of his youthful passages, has solaced many a weary hour of an age when men make few new friendships, and have almost as few opportunities to cultivate old ones. That the chief events related in these pages--such, for instance, as every detail of the French invasion, the capture of Wolfe Tone, and the attack on Monte di Faccio--are described with rigid exactness, the writer is most sincere in the expression of his conviction. For the truth of incident purely personal, it is needless to press any claim, seeing that the hero owns no higher name than that of--A Soldier of Fortune. MAURICE TIERNAY THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE CHAPTER I. ‘THE DAYS OF THE GUILLOTINE’