The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-02-01

tifies any degree Of sin. Marriage was
continually recommended to Byron as
an "antidote" to dissipation. At length
he took the prescription, and bitter
dose 1t proved. He proposed to Miss
Milbanke, and was refused. They
continued, however, TO be ,on very
friendly terms, and TO correspond. He
proposed second time, and was ac-
cepted. His friends protested against
his choice for two reasons: first, be-
cause she WAS "too straight.faced, i.
C., too good for him; and secondly, be.
cause her fortune consisted chiefly in
expectations. But sitting one day
with a friend, when refusal from
another lady had arrived, Byron said,
"You see after all that Miss Milbanke
is to be the person; | will write to
her," lie wrote on the instant, and
showed the letter to his friend, who,
still demonstrating against the choice,
read it over, and remarked, "Well,
really, this is a very pretty letter; it
is apity it should not 60; l Inever
read APPETIZER one" "Then it shall
go" said Lord byron. 1t did 20, and
it sealed his fate. Thus lightly are
the words spoken, and thoughtlessly
are tho deeds done, which make or
mar our happiness for life. 3a.
Miss Milbanke was the pattern
daughter of q pattern country gentlo-
man. An English country house Of
the pattern kind is place where peace
and plenty, order and regularity, have
taken up their abode, Life in it goes
on with an unvarying round of duties
and delight. From the master to the
scullion, each inhabitant has and
knows and keeps his place, yielding
obedience to those above him, requir.
ing 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. "Intcllect.
ual," as we understand the word, tho
family arc not; but in such homo
| human nature has reached as high Q
point of harmonious development as
IL has attained on this planet at any
ape We have met with people who
in somc respects were vastly superior
to the inmates of a pattern country
house-more learned, for example
more immaginative, more open to new
idcas-but never any who seemed or
the whcle more excellent. Miss Mil
bankc, as we have just observed, wa'
q pattern lady of her class-virtuous
discreet, prudent, orderly, kind--form
cd to be wise mother of English chill
dren, and an admirable mistress of ar
English home She was not woman
who could see anything romanti,
in a liaisoa, or anything interesting il
the seizure of furniture by the sheriff
nor was she woman who could re
gard the glory of the poet as set Of
against the faults of the man; on tn,
contrary she would consider-anC
rightly consider-t the possession
of extraordin Try talents heightened tn
turpitudc of moral delinquency.
Nine times during the year tha
Lord and Lady Byron lived together
tho Shoriffs officers seized their furni
turo for debt II was reported abou
town that his cXtravagant lordshi]
had married an heiross, and his mar
riage was the signal for creditors t.
como upon him in swarm m-irritatin!
him, dismaying her. Lord Byron
connection with the Drury Lane Thea
{ ter gave rise to y variety of rumor
, which, though propably ill-foundet
were not ofa nature to be agreeable t
, tho ears ola wife. Moore hints ais
that ceaseless annoYances from impa
tient creditors occasionally induces
! him to steep his senses in the forgot
fulness of rovcl. The Countess Guic
, cioli confessed to friend of ours, man.
! years after, that Byron was trouble
some man to live with. His mood wa
: moro changeable than the weather
melancholy, hilarious, pccvish, savage
/ all in day, and all without apparan
causo-and there was no knowing no,
to take. All this, and perhaps more
, lady Byron had to endure--sho VIII
had been all her life accustomed to
i state of things as different as can b
q conceived. She bore it, however, q
8 far as we know, without repining, un
). til transferred to her own sphere agair
shc remarked the contrast; and affec
tionate and officious "mamma," horri
fed by the tales her daughter brough
+. of the 'executions' and groen-roor
0 amour, probably persuaded her not I
h return. His pecuniary difficulties ha
reached their utmost, and, to use hi
4 own language, the blow camo when h
was standing alone on his hearth, wit
/. his household gods shivering aroun
r him." With a noble candor he wrot
!, to Tom Moore, few days after, ether
q never was better, or even brighto
o O kinder, more amiable or agreeabl
2 being than Lady Byron, Inever hac
!. nor can have, any rcproach to max
Il her whilc with mo. Where there
n blanc it belongs to myself and car
4 not redeem-I must bear it," Fc
v many years Byron seems to have chez
: ished hope Of reconciliation; but tn
\ mother-in- law was implacable to tn
d last, and the poet became an exile an
i a wanderer, without q home, and witt
out those virtues which home migt
y have iostered in his hayward but ma
. urally noble character.
J, "ofearthly good, the best is good wife,