 water
which Delamere drank, and by that artifice obtained for him the repose
he otherwise would not have been prevailed on to take.

After having slept several hours, he desired to pursue his journey in a
post chaise; but Fitz-Edward had taken care that none should be
immediately to be had. By these delays only it was that Emmeline reached
London some hours before him.

However, when he renewed his journey, he still continued to trace her
from stage to stage, till the last postillion who drove her was found.

He said, that he was ordered to stop at the first stand of coaches, into
one of which the lady went, and, with the servant behind, drove away;
but the lad neither knew the number of the coach, or recollected the
coachman, or did he remember whither the coach was ordered to go.

Delamere passed two days, questioning all the coachmen on the stand; and
in consequence of information pretended to be given by some of them, he
got into two or three quarrels by going to houses they pointed out to
him. And after offering and giving rewards which only seemed to redouble
his difficulties, he appeared to be farther than ever from any
probability of finding the fair fugitive he so anxiously sought.

Lord Montreville and his daughter staid only two days at Swansea after
his departure. They travelled in very indifferent spirits to London;
where they found Delamere ill at the lodgings of Fitz-Edward in
Hill-street.

Lord Montreville found there was nothing alarming in his son's
indisposition; but could not persuade him to accompany him to Lady Mary
Otley's.

His Lordship and Miss Augusta Delamere set out therefore for that place;
leaving Delamere to the care of Fitz-Edward, who promised not to quit
him 'till he had agreed either to go to the Norfolk estate or to Mr.
Percival's.

Lord Montreville was tolerably satisfied that he could not discover
Emmeline; and Delamere having for above a fortnight attended at all
public places without seeing her, and having found every other effort to
meet her fruitless, reluctantly agreed to go to his father's estate in
Norfolk.

It was now almost the end of August; and Fitz-Edward, after seeing him
part of the way, took his leave of him, and again went to attend his
duty in the North of Ireland.







While Delamere, in the deepest despondence, which he could neither
conquer or conceal, made a vain effort to divert his mind with those
amusements for which he no longer had any relish, Emmeline, at her new
residence, attracted the attention
