New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-21
From sargenrs New Monthly Magazine for Apri
1aop BUILDER.
From TIC Portfolio of one spho kne5o he
BY HELEN BERKELEY.

From TIC Portfolio Of one saso kneo her.
BY HELEN sERKLEY.
"B1AkcA p1 CAPELLo Blanca d Capelo
Lady Bulwer's new novel for shilling Here
goes." cries the peripatetic vender of cheap lite
rary wares as he bustles through the streets. Ur
conscious urchin What conjurer is that lttl
cracked voice of thine! What pleasant memorie
of the past rise up at its sound | am transported
to Paris again-living over the rainbow-hued hours
which the society and friendship of the suthores
of Blanca d Cspello have lastngly consecrated
Lovely Lady Bulwer Who ever came within
the sphere of thy peerless Vaccinations and foune
that time or distance could wholly dispe their in
huence?
1t was in Paris, during the winter of 1910, the
/ first beheld Lady Bulwer. General Cass, the
American Ambassador, was giving one of the mos
splendid balls Of the season. About the time thai
his magnificent suite of apartments began to be
oppressively crowded, a gentleman approached
me, and said: Let me get you out OF this throng
There is something in the boudoir yonder, that is
better worth seeing than all these painting people
that look as if they going to melt away with
the heat. Ledy Bulwer is there. She is great
lion. Would you not like to see herr"
"Oh! yes replied with so little interest in
nv tone, that now cannet help feeling both Won
der and provocaton at the recollection of my own
listless indifference.
"You must discover her, then, without my as
sistance 81 said my friend. 81 shall leave you
while you make the experiment"
"That will be rather difficult" | returned :" for
have never heard her person described. How
ever, have no objection to try my skill in
physiognomy."
We entered the boudoir There were not more
than fifty persons assembled. My companion
found me seat and retired, while | made sur
vey of the apartment, and endeavored to select
the one, whs bore most resemblance to the portrait
in my imagination of Lady Bulwer. A number
of extre mely beautiful women were present. Seve-
raj of them belonged to the English nobility. AS
my eyes glanced round the room they were soon
riveted, as by spell, upon the form of a majestic
looking woman, whose queenlike and peculiarly
graceful carriage was unequaed by the bearing OF
any that surrounded her. She was attired In robe
of crimson velvet. Its long train, bordercd with
errnine, lay in rich folds at her feet. Her form
might have been considered too expansive tor per-
feet beauty, it not that its aultess symmetry
made you forget the sizein admiration of the pro-
portions. Her SOFT dark hair was simply parted
Oh the whitest of foreheads, and its exuberant
,resses gathered into one graceful knot behind.
Her exquisitely moulded head was encircled by
tiara OF diamonds Those gems remind me OF
her ewes, which were Of blue so intense, and sc
IL,
and they always spoke in advance of her lips
Her complexion was of that transparent white
ness, softly blending on the cheeks with peach
blossom hue which is seldom possessed except by
the daughters of the Ocean-Isle" Her parted
lips, when she smled, disclosed set OF teeth
that almost seemed to reflect back the same Ugh
as q bed Of snow upon which the MONDAY sun ::
shining. But that smile--ir was more sweet thar
gay. And as you looked upon her you felt, tina
it was not the Projections which centred IN he
person that rendered her beautiful. Il was th
expression--,he grace-lhe brilliancy--nay-i
was the reflection of soul scanning over all
beckoned TO my friend, and. designating tn
lady, who had arrested my attention, said: "Sure
that must be Lady Bulwer
"You are right, he replied triumphantly ("
made bet that you would discover her, tor whel
she is present there seems TO be nobody else IN IT,
Is she not magnificent woman
The history Of Lady Bulwer at that tim
upon every lip. The envious blamed-,he con,
passionate pitied-the disinterested praised. Blu
her conduct was so unlnpeachable, her characte
so unbemished, that the voice of SANDER wa
hushed in awe. Even caumny soush, not to de
spoil her of her richest, almost her only posses
sion-her fair fame.
I must acknowledge that in common with
large portion of the American community, ha
permitted "Chevsley" prejudice me agains
Lady Butwer. Like too many others, 1 thought
"the wife, who can SO blazen her husbands errors
or vices, to the world, must be unworthy of es
,eem." Like them forgot that that wife Nigh
have been goaaed TO the commissions of this tau'
by a long series of injuries aud insults-that SD,
might have been forced to it of oh
tanning hvethood-that ",o err is human.
The day succeeding the ball givevcn by Genera
Cass, became personally acquainted with Lad
Suiwer. For several months after that period
saw her almost daily, sometimes passing two AM
three hours at time in her society. And the mon
intimately became acquainted with her. III
more reproached myself Tor ever having brea,hes
word, or hsrbored thought, to her dispa.
agemens.
She was exceedingly ingeRuous by nature. He
confidence was easily, perhaps TOO easily won. A.
her history had now become so public, she did no
scrup.e 10 relate to me the Story of her 6omes,i
grievances; the origin Of " Cheveley;" the oaus
of her separation from her husband, and the cir
cumstances which grew out of the unhappy teud
Had her sorrows sprung from her own vices, c
her own foliies, then indeed she might have bee
less communicative. AS it was, she hsd no me
tive for ccnceelmen,.
II is difficult to concentrate in few brief word:
history which occupied many hours in its rels
tion; and which memory has mos, faithfully treas
sred bu, will at,emps it.
Lady Buwer, then Rosina Wheeler, was maj
ried at the age of eighteen, to Mr. Bulwcr, news
Edward Ty,ron Rnlwer She yeye hin, bcr hse,