The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-23

his 'assassins, viii hardly allow charity to at
tribute his forbearance, when indulgence might
have been dangerous, to better motive than
fear. SO soon as he had agreed to separate, ana
while Lady Byrons lawyers recommended dl-
vorce, he wrote to Moore asking him not to be-
lieve all he heard, and entreating that no at
tempt might be made to defend him, as thaI
would be q mortal Oltense; and, because IL nau
been represented that he endeavored TO excuse
himself by speaking of his wife with disrespect
he called upon Rogers as one of the few persons
with whom he had lived in intimacy, to pear
witness of his having declared that Where JheTc
was n right or a wrong she had the right III
one of his letters written long after the sepaI3-
tion, he mentions herasa good daughter, anu
is remarkable that notwithstandin- his aOhor
renee of his mother-in-law and the coarse styie
of his private letters when Sir Ralph ana Lazy
Noel are mentioned, not word OF anger OF Iiui-
culo against them is to be touna III hEEIu!!ns
tha. he gave to the world There Is no alluslon
to either i'm the sketch or in Don juan lie
had probably perceived, what the event proved,
that il would not be safe to insult them openly,
He was forward to converse on the subject of
his marriage, and eager to learn what the world
said of the cause of separation. NOtwlthstand-
ing her absolute silence, his fears imputed to
Lady Byron n feeling of fixed hostility which
would not rest at his grave, but would make
some discovery injurious to his memory. In
one of their few intervals of seriousness at
Venice he besOught Moore not to suffer un-
merted censure TO rest upon his name after
death.
From Switzerland he went into Italy,
passing through Milan and Verona into Venice
He had furnished his fame, and raised an i'm
movable barrier against the return to domestic
life. He now gave himself up, unbridlcd. to
the lusts which had brought that ruin upon him.
When he afterwards meditated the gloomy
sCQuCstTatiOn Of the old age of Tibcrus. rs the
subject of n tragedy, he thought that he could
extract something OF my tragic, at least, even
out OF the sojourn at Capr1a, by sOttennG the
details and exhibiting the despair which must
have led to those very vicious pleasures. For
none" he adds, but a powerful and gloomy
mind OvcrthrOwn would have had re-
course to such solitary horrors" On
his arrival in Venice he began to
live in adultery with the wife of his landlord, u
ltncn-draper. He grew weary of her within Il
year, and moved to the MOCenigO Palace, on the
Grand Canal. Not that he was constant for
year. He had passed but two months under her
husbands roof when she found him entertaining
her sister-in-law, also married upon whom, in
his presence, she bestowed sixteen such slaps
that 1t made the ear ache only to hear the echo.
a few months later he took two peasant girls,
one married, the other single, who had cried
to him for food. After his removal from the
linen-drapers house he received into his palace
a company OF poor women as the COM
uaniOns OF his dfscngawed hours" '"Hhg most
distinguished and at last the rcigning favorite
OF the unworthy harcm, the wife of Il small
village baker, was the terror of men,
women, and children, for She had the strength
Of an Amazon, and used to knock down the
turned away, she threatened her master with
the knife, and flung herself into the canal, from
which she was rescued. Lord Byron writes of
her:-"l like this kind of animal. and am sure
! should have preferred Mcdca to any woman
that ever breathed.' Indeed, after he had well
fed and clothed her. this reigning favOrite was
the very model woman of his Imagination. With
strength to plough and mend roads, ''she was
very deVout and, in the midst of her adultery,
would cross herself if she heard the prayer
time strike He continued in this way of lie
for about fourteen months, from the time of his
first arrival in Venice, and stopped when it had
brought him nigh deaths door. In the same
month in which he announced what he called
his reformation, he met the lady with whom he
lived in adultery until he sailed for Greece.
The fourth canto of "Chlde Harold was
written at Venice, begun in June, 1917, and
dedicated on the I'd of January, ISIS. Certainly
he had not been wronged by his wife since
March, 1916. But he had brought himself to
imagine that he had suffered mighty wrongs
and the great actor, lifting up hands, eyes and
heart to Time the avenger, and to Nemesis
called upon them to awake, and exact the ven
geance which should yet be sought and found.
X At the same time and place he began
in his private letters to write OF his wife in Ian
gUage over which Mr.. Moore has delicately cast
a veil. The first instances are, Il suppose now
l shall never be able to shake off my sabes in
public imagination, more particularly since my
moral x Glove down my fame This was
written while Signora Mariana, the lnendra-
DAYS afterwards, 1T is only the yrtuous
like * who can afford to give up huS-
band and child, and live happy ever after.
Maranna was again by his side us he wrote,
and told him that his fine reflections were only
GOOD TO clean shoes Withal. Now too first OF
all, he discovered that when he was standing
alone upon his hearth with his household gods
shivered around him, deliberate desolation had
been piled upon him by his wife and her con-
iederates. Having written himself into rage,
he prOtpStpd Moore that he would never for
Get nor forgve-that his desire of revenge had
comparatively swallowed up in him every other
feeling, and he was only spectator upon eartn
till Il tentOld opportunity offered 1t might
come yet There were Others more TO oe
blamed than Il and on them
his ewes were fixed necessarily. In
the same letter he says that he had hn-
ished the first CantO Of Don Juan, ana
describes the reigning favorite of his palace as
the kind of animal he liked, tall and energetic
as a Pvthoness. a woman who, If he put poniard
into her hand would plunge il where he told
her and into him if he offended. ltWaS great
change within little more than two years Hay
iug acknowledged the perfection OF MS VIC
character having confessed that he never had
or cOuld have any reprOach to make herr thaC
there was blame and it belonged wholly 10 MN,
and if he could not redeem ne must pear lJ-tG
now accused her as the cold assassin OF MS
fame peace, hope and better lie, ana calied
heaven and earth to bear witness 10 Als uhoylhS
hate great change for better or Tor worse
was sure He must needs submit or feloII
more and more. 1t may well be believed thaJ III
her parting letter, like ms own FIahceSc",
LADY Byron had coniurcd him, before the clouu
nossed aWay TO wiring out the black drop, SO
that tbey might be reunited tomorrow since IL
could not be to-day. His moral lie was pasted
Tnsensible to the lifelong desoation when she
WIS suffering, he would tain have persuaded
himself that She too regarded his otense as
LIGHT matter; that she had dealt treaCheTousIy,
usinp il as a preteXt, and was the autnor OF All