AUTHOR OF "THE DECISION," "father clemENT,” WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND SON, AND HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. LONDON. MDCCCXXXVI. DUNALLAN. CHAPTER I. "Он, gentle sleep! thou art, indeed, frighted away," exclaimed Catharine Dunallan, after a night spent in vain efforts to attain that repose which had seldom before deserted her, and to banish from her thoughts the idea of the approaching day. On that day she was, for the first time since her childhood, to see her destined husband. He was her relation, though a distant one, and heir to her father's title, which descended only in the male line. To preserve this title, and the estates of both families undivided, had been equally the ambition of Catharine's father and of the father of her destined husband. |