CHAPTER II.
FLORENCE MOUNTJOY.
Mr.Scarborough had a niece, one Florence Mountjoy, to whom it had been intended that Captain Scarborough should be married.

There had been no considerations of money when the intention had been first formed, for the lady was possessed of no more than ten thousand pounds, which would have been as nothing to the prospects of the captain when the idea was first entertained.

But Mr.Scarborough was fond of people who belonged to him.

In this way he had been much attached to his late brother-in-law, General Mountjoy, and had perceived that his niece was beautiful and graceful, and was in every way desirable, as one who might be made in part thus to belong to himself.

Florence herself, when the idea of the marriage was first suggested to her by her mother, was only eighteen, and received it with awe rather than with pleasure or abhorrence.