RE-PUBLISHED FROM BAILY'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. LONDON: SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN. PAUL PENDRIL. CHAPTER I. En age, segnes, Rumpe moras; vocat ingenti clamore Citharon, On the evening of the 10th of August, 18-, two English gentlemen descended from the railway station at Marseilles, and having placed their live and dead baggage in the hands of a Commissionaire, proceeded at once to the new harbour of La Joliette, where a mail-steamer was lying, steam up, and outward bound for the island of Corsica. The good ship seemed to fret at her moorings, like a fiery steed eager and panting for the course; but the mails, not yet on board, checked her departure, and thus gave ample time for the clearance and embarkation of the tardy impedimenta. These, consisting of portmanteaus, guncases, one of Edgington's small bell-tents, a brace of spaniels, a Brittany wolf-hound, and a dark B |