Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-26

Blu, If | was astonished at his Treatment of
Mrs., | was ye, more immeasurably so when
as | had never opened my lips except to utter the
exclamation az he entered the room, he came upI
to me, took hold Of both my bands, and said 10
the gentlest and blandest Of tones, "ls there any
thing | can do for youi" mo thank your Grace
Il merely came as this lady's FRIEND" was my
reply. And 80 our brief interview terminated
and from the moment we entered the carriage that
awaited us, to the period when we arrived at my
friends house, | was entertained with nothing but
the most vehement anathemas uttered by her
against The brutality" of the Duke. as she called
it, and wondering amaaement at the cause Of bis
extraordinary urbauity to me.
THE DUKE IN A GOOD TEMPER.
Describing a subsequent interview in which she
herself waited upon the Duke, requesting permits
sion to dedicate to him a new work, the writer
says lie received mt most courteously and kind
ly, himself rising to place q chair for me. He
looked at me with intense scrutiny, and then re-
verted to the subject which had led me to seek the
interview, asking, Tell me-hsve l not seen you
before2 am sure | have" 1t was said he new
err forgot any one he had once spoken to. then
recounted my former interview, when | accom-
panied Mrs.. "Ohl l remember il perfectly
the little woman that vas go frightened at me-
| did not like her | thought her artificial. l take
likings and dislikings in a moment. l thought
; after you bad gone, OF your refusal when | offered
to do anything for you. 1t is not often this occurs
to me | assure you ii is much more frequently
have to say No"-laughing heartily as he said it.
But, com now, tell me all about yourself. Are
your parents living ? are you q widow I have you
any children and what made you iiteraryi "Thest
in~terrogatories were spoken somewhat rapidly.
then gave hin a short biography Of my then brief
but too eventful life, to the details of which BIZ
listened with the deepest nterest-going into TIT
minutest facts-commenting with singular shrewd
ness and ssgacity on some of the events narrated
He showed an extraordinary aptitude in discern
ing truth. A casual word or expression %su6iceC
. for him at once to comprehend a meaning not e1
I pressed. Wher, in the course of my brief history
l had to tell him Of sorrow suffered, wrong inHic
! ted, nothing could exceed the kiudly"-I might sa,
tender-sympathy BIO erinced. OF my father h,
I inquired much. When / told him he had beer
: identified greatly with Wilberforce and others il
writing pamphlets, &C., towards the achievement
of that great and noble work, the abolition Of tn
slave trafe-"Was your father English' You ar
Ut an English woman7"
"Your Grace, l am a Scotch woman"
"Weli, you may be, though you are not the leas
like one; but l am certain of %this-you have Ital
ian blood in your veins-you are the image of al
Italian lady I once took a great interest iu." [
wonder who it was?)-"I thought so the instant
saw you some years since"
Had he been a friend of years-oue connectc
by ties of long companionship and intimacy-h
could not have eutered with more anxious, cage
interes: into my plans and projects, nor furnishe
me with wiser. safer counsel fer my future career
Whilst talking with him l could scarcely imt
a CINE that in the nipple, unaffected man before m,
the warm and kind sympathizer with woman
griefs, the familiar adviser in the minor occurrer
n cos Of a life SO different from his, the irritable Duk
of Wellington | was conversing with, the create
warrior of the age, the profound statesman an
n lekislator-he, too, who, as rumor had ASSERTED
y WAS entitled to his ~sobriquet Of the Iron Duk
e from his sterr invulnerability to pity, com passio
& or sympathy. Never in my experience of life ha
70 | met with a man more gracious 10 manner.
was as perfectly at my ease whilst talking to hi
e as if be had been one of my Oldest, most familit
e friends.