:17:00
...and prospering with the cards,
they had little to show for their labour...
:17:04
...but some fine clothes
and a few trinkets.
:17:19
Five years in the Army,
and considerable experience of the world...
:17:24
...had dispelled any romantic notions
regarding love...
:17:29
...with which Barry commenced life.
:17:32
And he had it in mind,
as many gentlemen had done before him...
:17:36
...to marry a woman
of fortune and condition.
:17:41
And, as such things so often happen...
:17:43
...these thoughts coincided
with his setting sight upon a lady...
:17:48
...who will play a considerable part
in the drama of his life.
:17:53
The Countess of Lyndon...
:17:56
...Viscountess Bullingdon of England...
:17:58
...Baroness Castle Lyndon oflreland.
:18:02
A woman of vast wealth and great beauty.
:18:07
She was the wife of Sir Charles Lyndon...
:18:11
...Knight of the Bath...
:18:12
...Minister to George IIl
at several of the Courts of Europe.
:18:17
A cripple, wheeled about in a chair...
:18:20
...worn out by gout
and a myriad of diseases.
:18:25
Her Ladyship's Chaplain, Mr. Runt...
:18:28
...acted as tutor to her son,
the little Viscount Bullingdon...
:18:32
...a melancholy little boy,
much attached to his mother.