Though a hater of royalty and despotism, in every shape and form, Granby Arden was of a kind and generous nature; he, however, so involved himself in political intrigues, that, in the end, he was forced to fly from Paris—for the time was not yet come for the overthrow of all the ancient usages of the kingdom. Granby Arden went to Italy. The corrupt court of Naples and the licentiousness of the Queen and her supposed lover and minister, Acton, induced him whilst there to join in a secret intrigue to upset the Government. To carry out his own and the projects of others, he disguised himself as a fisherman, and dwelt with one of their body for a time in their caves on the Riviere di Chiaga, and there love, for the time, overturned all his projects. He saw, and became desperately enamoured of, Miss Anne de Bracy. Granby Arden’s name in England was notorious for his political opinions; and he well knew, when he made himself known to Miss de Bracy, and gained her love, that her brother, Sir Oscar de Bracy, a distinguished officer in the navy, would never give his consent to their marriage. We need not detail with minuteness a very common occurrence; his eloquence overpowered all the fair girl’s arguments; she was beloved and loved, and, as women will do, confided in him she loved, and they fled from Naples together, without leaving a trace behind them, nor could Mrs. Webb give any explanation of her niece’s mysterious disappearance. At Sienna, Anne de Bracy became Mrs. Arden, and, near Leghorn, they took a very pretty cottage, and for a time love banished politics from Mr. Arden’s mind. Whilst residing in that vicinity, Mr. Arden became acquainted with Lord Hood, then only a post-captain, whose ship was off Leghorn; and who one night would have fallen a victim to assassination, being taken for another officer, had not Mr. Arden, who chanced to be returning home, come to his assistance, and struck down one of the assassins—the other fled. An intimacy ensued; and before Captain Hood sailed, Mr. Arden stated to him that he was a married man, and introduced him to his beautiful wife, but did not mention her maiden name. Shortly after Captain Hood’s departure, a son was born to Mr. Arden, and called Julian; and, in due course, a daughter, who was named Mabel; after which, they travelled into Switzerland, but always under a feigned name; and, finally, when Julian Arden had reached his sixth year, and little Mabel her third, letters were received from Paris which induced Mr. Arden to return to that city, notwithstanding his wife’s tears and entreaties, leaving his wife and children in a cottage he rented near Lyons, and before three months had expired fell in a duel with an officer of the guards.