AMBITION. IN THREE VOLUMES. "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, STRAND, AND W. BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH. AMBITION. CHAPTER I. THE FIRE. Home keeping youths have, ever, homely wits. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Striving to better, oft, we mar what's well. Macbeth. IT was on a dark evening in the latter end of the year eighteen hundred and odd, when London was involved in one of those mists which frequently occur in the city and its environs, that a post-chaise drove up to the door of an hotel in Holborn, and three persons stepped out of it, whom the waiter ushered into a front VOL. I. B |