The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 281: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXV THE YOUNG NOBLEMAN Lorp ALGERNON CAVENDISH (now the Marquis of Leveson) and Lady Ernestina Cavendish (afterward the wife of Mr. Dysart) were the only children of Lord Jocelyn Loftus Cavendish, younger brother of the late Marquis of Leveson who perished in the fire. Their parents had died early, leaving them but indifferently provided for. A country-seat in the north of England, and a small estate producing a bare six hundred a year, devoted to Algernon, while a few thousand pounds in the funds were the whole fortune of Ernestina. Algernon was educated at Eton, and subsequently passed three years at Cambridge, not with the view of entering the Church, but for the purpose of finishing his studies. There he acquitted himself well, and was known as a young man of excellent disposition, great steadiness of habits, and of the most upright principles. His sister Ernestina was placed at a fashionable boarding-school at Kensington. We have said, in one of the earlier chapters of this history, that from her childhood she was a special favourite with her uncle the Marquis of Leveson, who regularly sent for her from school every Saturday to pass the interval with him till the Monday morning. But what with the shallow kind of tutelage she experienced at the fashionable seminary and the utter unfitness of such a confirmed voluptuary as the marquis to be her guardian, the young lady was not reared in a manner at all calculated to settle her mind upon the foundation of sterling moral principle, or to curb those passions which she naturally possessed. During a dangerous illness which the Marquis of Leveson experienced, Ernestina, grateful for his kindness toward her, nursed him with the utmost attention, and this circum- 259 (C(O) nn) GDoOo <Si iin