THE SHIPWRECK,

OR

THE DESERT ISLAND.

CHAPTER I.

Effects of Passion — The Young Seaman — The Ariel.

“George! Robert! hurry, you lazy fellows,” said the
haughty young Count D’Estaing, throwing the reins of his
horse to the grooms, and hastily ascending the grand stair-
case of the chateau, with his face partly hid beneath his
handkerchief.

“What ails his lordship to-day ?” said Robert, “he seems
to be mightily vexed at something.”

“I suppose,” replied the other, “he has been quarrelling
again with Philip Merville: did you see the blood on his
handkerchief ?”

B