A NOBLE LIFE

by

DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Author of _John Halifax, Gentleman_, _Christian's Mistake_,
&c., &c., &c.

New York
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Franklin Square







Dedicated, with the affection of eighteen years,
To Uncle George





Chapter 1

Many years ago, how many need not be recorded, there lived in his
ancestral castle, in the far north of Scotland, the last Earl of