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ST. HUBERT;

OR, THE

TRIALS OF ANGELINA.

A Nobel.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

London:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY G. B. WHITTAKER,

AVE-MARIA LANE.

'77

ST. HUBERT.

CHAPTER I.

The Family of the Baron St. Hubert.

Who that bears

A human bosom, hath not often felt

How dear are all those ties that bind our race

In gentleness together? And how sweet

Their force, let fortune's wayward hand the while
Be kind or cruel?

AKENSIDE.

Ar the time when America kindled the torch of civil war, which spread through France as well as England, and was not to be extinguished but by the blood of thousands, the family of St. Hubert was well known, and much respected, in Switzerland. Partial to that country from which they originally derived the rank they held, the Barons of St. Hubert had been, in some measure, hereditary sol

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