FORTUNE.

A Romance of Life.

BY D. T. COULTON, ESQ.

"Je rends au public ce qu'il m'a prêté: j'ai emprunté de lui la matière de
cet ouvrage; il est juste que, l'ayant achevé avec toute l'attention pour la vérité
dont je suis capable, et qu'il mérite de moi, je lui en fasse la restitution."

LA BRUYERE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

BY HIS SUCCESSORS, HURST AND BLACKETT,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1853.

249. V. 304.

LONDON:

Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

MR. LANETON, when his resolution was once taken, was not the man to let grass grow under his feet. When he received Bellstar's note, firmly declining the proposal made to him, he felt extremely indignant at his "ingratitude," as he termed it.

"This is all the thanks I get for my kindness!" he exclaimed. "This is the return made to me for all the indulgence I have shown to him! Now I wash my hands of him. I have quite done with him and his affairs."

VOL. II.

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