The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21

want of acquaintance with the world that made
me think him so charming, but have since seen
men of every rank and cline, have compared
all, and have never seen his equalW
But to return to our salon at the Countess
Abrizzis. There were but few present, and the
hostess begged Lord Byron to allow her to pre-
sent him to the fair young countess. He play
fully but repeatedly refused; but at length the
urgency of the lady, joined to the entreaties OF
his friend Scott prevailed. When Count Guic-
cioli came to lead his wife to her carriage, Byron
was still at her side, and Teresa Guiccioli was
awakening to all the intoxicating and delicious
sensations of first leve.
She must ut this time have been eminently
beautiful rather below than above middle
height fully but exquisitely formed q com
plexion of dazzling whteness, features of fault
less regularity, hair of that golden tint Titan
so loved to paint floating in luxuriant masses
about her dimpled shoulders, and childlike
smile displaying teeth of the greatest beauty
and regularity; add to this the gayest and most
amiable of tempers Joined TO highly cultivated
mind and who can wonder that Byron, driven
from his own hearth-stone, and forbidden the
sight of his dearly-cherished child should have
become enthralled, and that the young countess,
unlearned in the ways of the world, the ac-
qualntance of the young Englishman encouraged
to the utmost by her husband, should have
learned to look with eager interest for the
presence of him who, when he chose,
could exercise personal fascination few
could resist 4? Time passed on, and Count
Guiccioli returned to Ravenna, where he had
large possessions. OF course, his young countess
accompanied him, but not the same gay, light
hearted being as before. The passionate love
that is so easily nurtured under an Italian sky
filed every fibre of her being, and without the
society of Byron, to which she had been daily
accustomed in Venice, she dropped and fell i'll.
Byron, whose unhappy experience In all matters
pertaining to love made him fearful of entirely
yielding to the influence of this passion at last
resolved to let his heart alone be master, and
started for Ravenna; the fair countess revived
and many happy hours were spent by them, for
the Count courted his society, and public
opinion in Italy was very lenient to that
kind of liaison. But Teresas soul was too
undivided in her love for Byron to allow even n
semblance of wearing another yoke. and she
prevailed upon her relations to intercede with
Pope Plus VII and obtained q separation from
her husband which was the nearest approach to
a divorce the Church permitted. From that hour,
until his departure for Greece on his heroic but
il-fated expedition, his love never wavered.
After his death, a locket containing long, glossy
curl with their united initials, attached TO a
heavy hair chain, also woven from her lovely
tresses, was found round his neck, and concealed
next to his person.
OF Byron's faithful love for the Countess
Guiccioli few would doubt, could they read,
as l have done, every line he ever
wrote to her, even the most trillinag
note WoG;o from the tin time he first met her in
Missolonghi, few days before his death
1t seems as if he had at length found
haven of rest after his butfeting with the world
J1er great uCSl1SJO learn EQGllSl was ALWAYS
bated by him, for love in that tongue brought
too many bitter recollections: he wrote Italian
with all the beauty and fire of Petrarch and
Tasso
return to England. Byron went to his room,
and being absent some little time, the Countess
went to see what kept him; she met him on the
landing with bag full of papers, and with
radiant face he said to her.
Here is what will justify me before the
world Moore will take them to England with
him. and when die, shall be known as l really
was"
The bag contained his autobiography which
Moore allowed, in so cowardly manner, to be
destroyed. The Countess never ceased regret
ting that she had not understood English at that
time, that she might at least to degree, have
| replaced them by memory.
| The news of his death gave her shock from
| which she did not recover for years; she refused
| to accept the ten thousand pounds left to her by
| Byron in his WILL and mourned long and deeply
! for him. After while she visited England,
| where she was made much of by the literary
circles OF Lady Blessington and Lady Morgan,
| then the pleasantest in London. She finally
settled quietly in Paris, and in 1910 Count Guc-
cioli died, leaving her an income of thirty thou
| sand francs year.
widower, peer of France under Louis Philippe
and n Senator under the Empire although be-
longing to one of the old Legitimist families,
and his only daughter married to the Prince de
very wealthy, but very eccentric; they, however,
lived together harmoniously until his death in
| 1866.
As woman. the Marquise de Boissy is still
charming and lovable, and one of the most
qmetly-erudite women in Europe. Time has
touched her with gentle hand, and one easily
recognizes how exquisite must her beauty have
been at seventeen, when she first saw
Byron. During the revolution of 1S4S
her salon was the only one that could be
could 'sdlOn" in those troublous
times Intimate with the Bonapartes from their
youth, connected with the Faubourg' through
her husband, all shades of politics were repre-
sented around her hearthstone: there were seen
Prince Louis Napoleon, then candidate for the
Presidency, Lamertine Montalembert Emile de
Girardn the Papal Nuncio, and others of opin-
ions equally diverse. The dinners were famous
in gastronomic annals, and most of the European
notabilities have partaken of them. The Mar
quis' Anglophobia was well known, but it never
interfered with his hospitality Lord Malmes-
bury, Richard Golden, and other eminent Eng
lishmen have been guests in the hotel of the Cite
dc Londres.
One of their evening reunions was sight to
be rememberd-one saw Europe typifed at
| glance. i have seen in that salon 1.-THE Fau-
bourg" represented by the Prince and Prncessc
de con, the Princesse de Craon and her daughter
Mademoiselle de Beauvan, the Marquis du
Hallay- Coetquen and his two daughters, the
Duchesse de In Tremouille and her daughters the
| Princesses di TorramuZ2a and de Mouleai the
Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, and the Papa
Legate. The Empire by the Marquis and Mar
Baronne Pons de Wagner, lectrice to the EN-
press, Marshal Canrobert, various members o
the BonapaTte family, and, en- sonlnle all the
court circle. England lent her quota too The
Countess of Harrington and her daughter the
Lady Geraldine Stanhope, Lady Somerset,