Guy Mannering.

44 TWAVERLEY NOVELS.
titles of his ancestors, which had been for many years
iniquitously withheld from him.
Lord and Lady Altham lived unhappily together, and
a separation took place soon after the birth of their son.
Her Ladyship, shamefully neglected by her husband,
resided in England during the remainder of her life, and
from disease and poverty was reduced to a state of extreme imbecility both of body and mind.
James Annesley, the infant son of this unhappy mother,
was entrusted, by Lord Altham, to the charge of a woman
of indifferent character, named Joan or Juggy Landy.
Juggy was a dependent of the family, and lived in a
cabin on the estate, about a quarter of a mile from the
house of Dunmain. This hut is described as a " despicable place, without any furniture except a pot, two or
three trenchers, a couple of straw beds on the floor," and
" with only a bush to draw in and out for a door." Thus
humbly and inauspiciously was the boy reared under the
care of a nurse, who, however unfortunate or guilty,
appears to have lavished upon her young charge the
most affectionate attention. From some unexplained
cause, however, Juggy Landy incurred the displeasure
of Lord Altham, who took the boy from her, and ordered
his groom " to horsewhip her," and " to set the dogs upon
her," when she persisted in hovering about the premises
to obtain a sight of her former charge.
Lord Altham now removed with his son to Dublin,
where he appears to have entered upon a career of the
most dissipated and profligate conduct. We find him
reduced to extreme pecuniary embarrassment, and his
property became a prey to low and abandoned associates;
one of whom, a Miss Kennedy, he ultimately endeavoured
to introduce to society as his wife. This worthless woman