Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-01
From SUgent's Ne,c Monthly Magarine for april
LADY BULwER.

LADY BULWER.
From the Portfolio of one who knew her.
ny HELEN BERKLEy.
at was in Paris, during the winter Of 1910,
that first beheld Lady Bulwer. General
Cass, the American Ambassador, was giving
one of the most splendid balls of the season.
About the time that his magnificent suite of
apartments began to be oppressively crowded, a
gentleman approached mo, and said "I.ct me
get you out of this throng. There is some
thing in the boudoir yonder, that is better worth
seeing than all these painting people, that look
heat. Lady Bulwer is there. She is great
lion. Would you not like to see her 7"
oh yes l replied, with so little interest in
my tone, that now cannot help feeling both
wonder and provocation at the recollection of
my own lstless Indifference.
you must discover her, then, without my as
sistance ) said my friend. q shall leave you
while you make the experiment.
That will be rather difficult returned !;
for have never heard her person described.
However, have no objection to try my skill in
physiognomy.'
We entered the boudoir. There were not
more than fifty persons assembled. My com.
panion found me a seat, and retired, while I
made survey Of the apartment, and endeavor-
ed to select the one, who bore most resem-
blance to the portrait in my imagination of
Lady Bulwer. A number ofextremey beauti-
ful women were present. Several of them be-
longed to the English nobility. Asmy eyes
glanced round the room they were soon rivetcd,
as by a spell, upon the form of majestic look
ing woman, whose queenlke and peculiarly
graceful carriage was unequaled by the bear
ing of any that surrounded her. She was at.
tired in a robe of crimson velvet. Its long
train, bordered with ermine, lay in rich folds
at her feet. Her form might have been con-
sidered too expansive for perfect beauty, were
it not that its faultless symmetry made you for
get the size in admiration of the proportions
Her soft, dark hair was simply parted on the
whitest of ioreheads, and its exuberant tresses
gathered into one graceful knot behind. Her
exqusitely moulded head was eucircled by a
tiara Of diamonds. Those gems remind me of
her eyes which were of blue so intense, and
so brilliant, that you mistook them at first for
black; and they always spoke in advance of
her lips, Her complexion was of that trans
parent whiteness, softly blending on the cheeks
with peachhlossom hue which is seldom pos
sessed except by the daughters fthe "Ocean-
Isle" Her parted lips when she smiled, dis
closed a set of teeth, that almost seemed to re-
feet back the same light as beG of snow upon
which the noon-dny sun is shining. But that
smile-it was more sweet than gay And as
you looked upon her you felt, that it was no,
the perfections which centred in her person
that rendered her beautiful. 1t was the ex.
pression--the grace--thc btilliancy-nay-i,
was the reflection Of a som beaming over all
! bcckoncd to my friend, and, designating
the lady, who had arrested my attention, said
Surely that must be Lady Bulwerr =
you are right he replied triumphan,ly Il
made bet that you would discover her, for
when she is present there seems TO be nobody
else in he room. Is she not a magnlfcen,
woman =
The history of Lady Bulwer was at that
time upon every lip. The envious blamed
the compassionate pitied-the disinterested
| praised. But her conduct was so unimpeach
| able, her character so unblemished, that the
voice of SANDER was bushed in awe. Even
calumuy sought not to despoll her of her rich
est, almost her only possesslon--her fair fame.
must acknowledge that in common with O
large portion ofthe American community, hac
permitted 'Cheveley' to prejudice me against
Lady Bulwer Like too many others, l thought
sthe wife, who can SO blazen her husbands err
rors, or vices, to the world, must be unworthy
of esteem Like them forget that that wife
might have been goaded to the commission o
this fault by long series OF injuries and in
sults--that she might have been forced to it al
a means of obtaininga livelhood-that to er
is human
The day succeeding the ball given by Gen
eral Cass, became personally acquainted will
Lady Bulwer. For several months after tha
period saw her almost daily, sometimes pass
ing two and three hours at time in her socie
ty. And the more intimately became ac
quanted with her, the more Ireproached my
self for ever having breathed word, or harbor
ed thought, to her dsparagement.
She was exceedingly ingenious by nature