TALES AND NOVELS, VOL. V

MANOEUVRING; ALMERIA; AND VIVIAN. (TALES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE.)

BY

MARIA EDGEWORTH


IN TEN VOLUMES. WITH ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.


1857.




MANOEUVRING.



CHAPTER I.

"And gave her words, where oily Flatt'ry lays
The pleasing colours of the art of praise."--PARNELL.


NOTE FROM MRS. BEAUMONT TO MISS WALSINGHAM.

"I am more grieved than I can express, my dearest Miss Walsingham, by a