BY ALFRED AUSTIN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: J. F. HOPE, 16, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1858. е FIVE YEARS OF IT. CHAPTER I. PORTIA.-"Ah, me! how weak a thing Julius Cæsar. WHEN Edgar was some sixty miles from London, he took it into his head that what remained of the journey should be travelled on foot. His pedestrianism began about five o'clock in the morning. The larks were rising from the long, wet grass, and mount ing into the far, blue distance, heralding to VOL. II. B |