equally commissioned to superintend. To the establishment of these young men in the Fauxbourg St. Germain, he was accordingly introduced; and his father, after promising to correspond with him regularly, and giving him a world of good advice, particularly that he should attend closely to his military exercises, and never go near Noll's rascally Roundhead ambassador, shook him heartily by the hand, bade him adieu, and set off on his return to Bruges.

Just at the dangerous period of incipient manhood, gifted with a noble, generous, and kindly temperament, but of strong passions, and inflexible in his purposes, was Jocelyn thus left to himself in a dissipated capital, without parental guidance or any efficient control, to assist him in forming the mould of which his now ductile mind was to receive the permanent impression. His young companions, equally free from all restraint, except the equivocal authority of Sir Richard Browne, and the lax

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By frequenting this establishment he had already formed acquaintance with several distinguished families, both French and English, in whose houses he was a welcome visitant, and thus beguiled, in some degree, the loneliness of his situation. The number of his associates was now about to be increased by an occurrence which had considerable influence upon his future destiny. One fine morning of the summer, he had wandered with a book into the gardens of the Luxemburg Palace, situated in the immediate vicinity of his residence, whose stately marble fountains, terraces, groves, parterres, grottoes, and umbrageous alleys, had often en