He is very young; he is only just of age; he saw the signorina last winter in Naples.

He fell in love with her from the first, but his family interfered, and an old uncle, an ecclesiastic, Monsignor B----, hurried up to Naples, seized him, and locked him up.

Meantime he has passed his majority, and he can dispose of himself.

His relations are moving heaven and earth to prevent his marrying Miss Light, and they have sent us word that he forfeits his property if he takes his wife out of a certain line.

I have investigated the question minutely, and I find this is but a fiction to frighten us.