"Not merely to KNOW, but according to thy knowledge to Do, is thy vocation. "Au lieu de pleurer et de nous lamenter pour une migraine, pour des vapeurs, VOL. II. London: T. CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER, 30, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. 1857. [The right of Translation is reserved.] 249. x. 475. AS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE OF PROFOUND ADMIRATION AND MOST SINCERE REGARD THIS BOOK IS, BY PERMISSION, DEDICATED TO CHARLES DICKENS, BY HIS ATTACHED AND GRATEFUL FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. THE FORSTERS. CHAPTER I. ROUND THE HEARTH. I HAVE introduced to you, readers, the daughters of Madame de Gontier; it is time to present her son. She was still engaged in her fire-side reverie, when he entered and broke it by taking her hands and imprinting a warm kiss on each of her cheeks; then he placed himself in the arm-chair opposite to her, drew it close up to the hearth, and commenced a vigorous onset on the wood-fire, which blazed and glowed joyously beneath his hand, roaring up the chimney and sending forth |