Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-17

wv nl"ho Vah give bearing IN her hand
princely fortune, which, with a w5mau's
unealculating generosity, was thrown at his
fect-there is no wonder that she might feel
for awhile as IL she could eater the LIFTS
with the very devil himself aud ight with
a womau's weapons for the heart Of her
husband. There are Indications scattered
through the letters Of Lord Byron, which
though brief indeed, showed that his yonng
wife was making every effort to accommo-
date herself to him, and to give him
cheerful home. One of the poems that he
sends to his publisher about this time, he
speaks Of AS being copied by her, lie had
always the higest regard for her literary
judgments and opinions, and this little incl
dent shows that she was already associAting
herself in n wifely fashion with his aims as
an author
Only few days before sho left him for
ever, Lord Byron sent Murray manuscripts,
in Lady Byron's handwriting, Of the Siege
Of COrinth and Parisinia, add wrote = -
am very glad that the handwriting was
favorable omen OF the morale Of the piece,
but you must not trust TO that, for my
c"pyist would write out anything desired,
in all the ignorance of innocence" There
were lucid Intervals in which Lord Byron
felt the charm of his wife's mind and the
strength Of her power, Bell, you could
be poet, too, II you only thought So" he
would say. There we're Summer hours in
her storm, life, the memory Of which never
left her, when Byron was as gentle and
tender as he WAS beautiful; when be seemed
t. be possessed by good angel, and then
for little tune all the ideal possihiliT as Of
his nature stood revealed. The most dread
full men to live with are those who thus
alternate between angel and devil. The
buds Of hope and love called out by day
or too of sunshine are frozen again and
again till the tree is killed.
But there camo an hour of revelation an
hour when, in manner which lrft no kind
of room for doubt, Lady Byron saw the full
depth Of the abyss OF infamy which her
marriage was expected TO cover, and under
stood that she was expected to cover, and
understood that she was expected to be the
cloak and the accomplice of this imfamy.
Many women would have been utterly
crushed by such disclosure; some would
have fl-d from him Immediately, and ex
posed and denounced the ime. LAZY b.
ron did neither. When all the hope Of
womanhOod died out of her heart, there
arass within her, stronger, purer, and
brighter, that immortal kind Of love such as
God FEELS for the sinner-the love of which
Jesus spoke and which holds the one wan.
derer OF more account than the ninety and
nine that went not astray. She would nei-
ther leave her husband nor betray him, nor
would she for one moment justify his sin
| and hence came two years of couvulsive
struggle, in which sometimes for 9 vi lie,
the good angel seemed to gain ground, AMI
| then the evil one returned with ssvensald
v -hemence,
III -,Yf
and with her, with all the Sophistries OF his
powerful mind. He r-pudisted Christianity
as authority, asserted the right of every
human being to follow out what he called
" the impulses of nature" Subsequently
ne introduced into QUO Of bis dramas the
reason by which he justified himself In in
cest.
In the drama Of "Caiu." Allah, the sis
ter and the wife Of c ,in thus addresses him
Cain. walk not with this spirit.
Rear with what We have borne, and love mel
| Love thee.
Lucysr. More than thy mother and thy sire3
Lueilsr. No. not yet;
II ono day will be in your children.
Must not my daughter love her brother Enoeh
Lgeirsr Not as thou lowest Cain.
shall they not love aud bring forth Things that love
cut Of their loYrl Have they "ot drawn their mill
uEt u this bosolHi Was not he their father
| Born the same sole womb, Ia the same hour
| With me! did not love each other > and
| Ia Multiplying our being multiply
Things which will love each other a we love
| Them Aud A. / love thee. my Cain go hot
| Forth with this spirit, he = uDf Of ourS.
Laeifer. The stu speak u is not u my making
| .1nd cannot be n lin ia yuu-whaGer
| ltsecms Ia those who will replace yo la
| Mortality.
1i'l. What /, the sin which Is Mt
| siu Ia itsclf' san firru instances cake sin
| vii II Il 10th tlss
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L,dy b, ron, though slight and almost 10
fsntiue III her bodily presence, had th'
soul, not OLly OF an angelic woman, but q
q strong, reasoning man, Ii was the writer
lot to know her at period when she form
I'd he personal acquaintance Of many o
the very first minds OF England; bat, anon
| all with whom this experience brought he
IN connection, there was none who impress
ed her 50 strongly as Lady Byron. Ther'
was an almost supernatural power OF mora
divifation, a grasp OF the very highest an
mos'&cOa pre he q i've thinks, that made he
highest opinions singularly impressive. N
doubt THE result was wrought out In grea
degree from the anguish and col llct Q
these t~o years, when, with no one 10 he'll
OF counsel her but Almighty God, she wres
tied aud struggled with tiends Of darknes
Tor the redemption Of her husbands soul
She fOllowed him through all his sophistics
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