BY

THE AUTHOR OF

BRAMBLETYE house,” “gaIETIES AND GRAVITIES,”

&c. &c.

"Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same
Thro' joy and thro' torments, thro' glory and shame?
I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart;

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art!"

LONDON

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET.

THE TOR HILL.

CHAPTER I.

Pugnacious, stern, arm'd cap-à-pie,
The paragon of chivalry,

His spirit dances

To hear the trumpet's battling sound,
And bid his steel-clad charger bound
Amid the lances.

THE strenuous idleness which sometimes persuades a man that by vigorous exertion of the body he can dissipate the listlessness and discontent of the mind, had induced Sir Giles Hungerford of the Tor to call up his nephew, Poyns Dudley, who had for some time past