62 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
the dignity of one of England’s proud¬ 
est earldoms. Of course, the family 
name was still Belamour ; the titular, 
as it would be but the re-opening of 
a some-time closed wound to make 
public, we shall conceal under the 
fictitious appellation of the Earl of 
Astleton. 
“ It is a pity, and what is still 
worse, a great reproach to you mor¬ 
tals, that there is scarcely a noble 
family among you that has not some 
foolish but undying feud, which estran¬ 
ges brothers, and makes the nearest, 
and what ought to be the dearest, 
connexions, a bed wherein to sow 
the seeds of dissensions, which bring 
