Whether Miss Glossop had been fascinated by the charms of Colonel Crop’s conversation, and therefore was desirous of meeting the gentleman again, or whether the young lady had learned from any source of information that Lord Spoonbill was at the castle, and she was anxious to obtain a sight of so great an ornament to the British peerage, we cannot tell. But it so happened, that on the morning after Colonel Crop had dined at Neverden Hall, this young lady felt herself disposed to take a stroll, and she wandered in her strolling as far as the gates of Smatterton park. The gates stood half open, and there seemed to be every symptom of a thoroughfare. At least, she thought, that it would be no …
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