CHAPTER X.
I know it well, my Lord—and sure the match
Were rich and honourable. Besides, the gentleman
Is full of virtue, bounty, worth, and qualities,
Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter.
Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him?"
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
A constant round of dinner parties in quick succession was briskly kept up between d'Aremberg palace and Tyrconnel house. The anxiety of the dowager duchess for the union of her son with the Lady Adelaide was exceedingly great, and unremitting were her attentions and exertions for its accomplishment.