LADY EUREKA;
OR,
THE MYSTERY:
A PROPHECY OF THE FUTURE.
BY THE AUTHOR
OF
“MEPHISTOPHELES IN ENGLAND.”
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1840.
London;
Printed by A. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.
CONTENTS
| I. | ROLY POLY’S SICKNESS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. |
| II. | AN AUSTRALIAN COLONY IN SPAIN. |
| III. | OLD ENGLAND. |
| IV. | THE LAST OF THE ENGLISHMEN. |
| V. | AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF OLD ENGLAND. |
| VI. | THE DEATH OF THE LAST OF THE ENGLISHMEN. |
| VII. | LILYA. |
| VIII. | LOVE MISPLACED. |
| IX. | A DISCOVERY. |
| X. | A FIGHT AT SEA. |
| XI. | THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN DEATH, AND THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS. |
| XII. | THE CONCLUSION. |
EUREKA
A PROPHECY OF THE FUTURE.
CHAPTER I.
ROLY POLY’S SICKNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
“Oh, massa, I so bad!” exclaimed the fatcook, as he waddled up to the surgeon, with amost woeful expression of countenance.
“What’s the matter with you, Roly Poly?”inquired Dr. Tourniquet.
“Sich a debble ob a pain, massa,” continuedthe black.
“But where is it, man? where is it?Can’t do you any good till I know what’sthe matter with you, don’t you see,” said thesurgeon.
“Debble ob a pain, massa, in my tomack,”replied his patient, rubbing his huge hand overhis stomach, and heaving the most despairingof sighs.
“Put out your tongue,” exclaimed thedoctor.
The fat cook extended a pair of enormousjaws, and protruded something which resembleda scorched brick-bat.
“Ah! derangement of the digestive functions,”remarked the practitioner, after a briefinspection of the misshapen lump of flesh hispatient had exhibited