The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-02-16
" hole Number 1907

house, thou needest further description of Miss
Mibanke. But probably thou hast not, and SO
few additional syllables are required. An English
country house, ofthe pattern Sort is place where
peace and plenty, order and regularity have taken
up their abode. Life in it goes on in unvary
ing rou2d of duties and delig hts From the mas
ter to the sculon, each irhabitant has and knolcS
and keeps his place, yielding obedience to those
above HIM, requiring respect and submission from
those below him. But the yoke is easy and the
burden is light, because respect is mingled with
affection. and obedience is rendered with loyalty
"Intellectua''-as understand the word the
family not; but, in such home, human nature
has reached as high a point Of harmonious develop
rnent, it has attained on this planet, in any age
We have met with people who, an some respects
were vastly superior to the inmates OF an English
pattern country house-more learned. for exam
pie, more imaginative, more open to new ideas
but never any who seemed, upon the whole, more
enViable or more excellent. Miss Mlbanke, as
we have just observed, was pattern lady of her
class-virtueus, discreet, prudent, orderly, kind
formed 10 be wise mother of English Children,
an admirable mistress of an English home. She
was not woman who would see anything roman
tic in Aaison, or anything interesting in seizure
OF furniture Q by the sheriff; nor she woman
who could regard the glory of the poet as set-off
against the faults Of the on the contrary, she
would consder-and rightly consder-that the
possession of extraordinary talents heightens the
turptude of moral delioqency.
| Nine times during the year that Lord and Lady
Byron lived together the sheritf's officers seized
their furniture for deft. 1t was reported about
town that his extrava CANT lordship had married
heiress. and his marriage the signal for cred
itors to come upon him in swarm-irritating him,
dismaying her. Lord Byron's connection with
Drury Lane Thsater gave rise to variety of
rumours, which, though probably i'll founded, were
not of q nature to be agreeable to the ears of u
wife. Moore hiots also that ceaseless annoyance
from impatient creditors occasionly induced him to
steep his senses in the forgetfulness of revel.-
/ The Countess Guiccoli confessed to friend ol
ours, many years after, that Byron trouble
som manto Iive with. His mood was more chan
geable than the weather-melancholly hilarious
Peevish, savage all in day, and uIl without ap.
parent cause-and there was no knowing how to
take him. All this, and perhaps more, Lady By
ron had to endure-she who hid been all her life
accustomed TO stale of things as different can
be conceived. She bore it however, as far as we
know, without repining; until transferred to hen
own sphere again she remarked the contrast: ar
affectonate and oficious "mamma," Mortified by
the tales her daughter brough of..executions' and
! green room amours-probably persuaded her moi
to return. Byron was astounded at the news
His peeahiary difficulties had reached their ut
most, and, to use his own language, the blow
came when he ''was standing alone on his hearil
with his household gods shivsred around him.
With noble candor, he wrote, a few days af;e
to Tom Moore, "There never was better, o.
even a brighter, "A kinder, n more amabIe OF agre
cable being than Lady Byron. I never had mol
can have, any reproach to make her while witt
me. Where there is blame, it belongs to myself
! and if cannot redeem, | must bear it'' Fol
many years Byron seems to have cherished the
| hope of reconciliation, but the ssmother-in-aw'
was impacab'e 10 the last, and the poet becams
; an exile and wanderer, Without home, anc
without those virtues which home might have
iostered in his wayward but naturally noble
character.