THE LADY OF THE ISLE; OR, THE ISLAND PRINCESS. BY MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH. AUTHOR OF “MIRIAM, THE AVENGER; OR, THE MISSING BRIDE,” “A BEAUTIFUL FIEND,” “HOW HE WON HER,” “RETRIBUTION,” “CHANGED BRIDES,” “TRIED FOR HER LIFE,” “BRIDE’S FATE,” “WIDOW’S SON,” “A NOBLE LORD,” “CRUEL AS THE GRAVE,” “FORTUNE SEEKER,” “ALLWORTH ABBEY,” “LOST HEIRESS,” “FAMILY DOOM,” “THE ARTIST’S LOVE,” “GIPSY’S PROPHECY,” “HAUNTED HOMESTEAD,” “FALLEN PRIDE,” “VICTOR’S TRIUMPH,” “THE CURSE OF CLIFTON,” “THE SPECTRE LOVER,” “MAIDEN WIDOW,” “TWO SISTERS,” “BRIDAL EVE,” “FAIR PLAY,” “THE FATAL MARRIAGE,” “PRINCE OF DARKNESS,” “BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN,” “MOTHER-IN-LAW,” “DESERTED WIFE,” “INDIA,” “DISCARDED DAUGHTER,” “WIFE’S VICTORY,” “LOVE’S LABOR WON,” “THREE BEAUTIES,” “THE CHRISTMAS GUEST,” “VIVIA,” “LOST HEIR OF LINLITHGOW,” ETC. “_’Tis strange, but true; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. If it could be told, How much would fiction gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!_”—BYRON. “_With caution judge of probability, Things deemed unlikely, e’en impossible, Experience oft hath proven to be true._”—SHAKSPEARE. PHILADELPHIA: T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS; 306 CHESTNUT STREET. A WORD TO THE READER. In offering you this, the most singular romance that I have ever written, I feel constrained to say, that the most remarkable characters and incidents here exhibited, are drawn from well-known persons and events of real life. These circumstances are here presented with only such judicious change of times, places, and proper names, as is dictated by the prudence and delicacy which also withholds me from pointing out more definitely the sources whence they were derived. E. D. E. N. S. CONTENTS.