A Sick Bed

The Fortunes of Glencore

by Charles James LEVER (1806 - 1872)

Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore proclaiming his son to be illegitimate. This consequently robs the child of his birthright and upon his father telling him his intentions, the boy runs away and refuses to return home. Glencore asks his old friend Upton to become the boys guardian to which he agrees after much protestation against it. The boy and his companion Billy move abroad to pursue their schooling and try to live a life of anonymity but all does not go according to plan. (Summary by Michele Eaton)

Listen next episodes of The Fortunes of Glencore:
A Council Of State , A Diplomatist's Dinner , A Duke And His Minister , A Fevered Mind , A Fragment Of A Letter , A Mask In Carnival Time , A Minister's Letter , A Night Scene , A Tete-A-Tete , A Very Broken Narrative , An Evening In Florence , An Uptonian Despatch , Ante-Dinner Reflections , At Massa , Billy Traynor As Orator , Carrara , Conflicting Thoughts , Doings In Downing Street , Harcourt's Lodgings , How A Reception Comes To Its Close , How A Sovereign Treats With His Minister , Italian Troubles , Madame De Sabbloukoff In The Morning , Major Scaresby's Visit , Night Thoughts , Social Diplomacies , Some Sad Reveries , Some Traits Of Life , The Cascine At Florence , The End , The Flood In The Magra , The Life They Led At Massa , The Pavillion In The Garden , The Project , The Subtleties Of Statecraft , The Tutor And His Pupil , The Villa At Sorrento , The Villa Fossombroni , Uptonism