The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-09-03

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7" At the altar she did not know that shs
was sacrifice; but before sunset OF thai
winter day she knew it, if Judgment may
be formed from her face and attitude of des
pair when she alighted from the carriage OF
the afternoon Of her marriage day. 1t was
not the traces Of tears, which won the sympa.
/ thy of the old butler, who stood at the opeT
door. The bridegroom jumped out of The
carriage and walked away. The bride
slightsd and went up the steps alone, with
countenance and frame agonized and listlesi
with evident horror and despair. The old
serysht lOnged to offer his arm to the young
lonely creature, ss an assurance Of sympathy
and protection. From this shock she GER
tainly rallied, snd soon. The pecuniary
difficulties of hernew home were exactly
what devoted spirit like hers was fitted to
epcounter. Her husband bore testimony,
after the catastrophe, that brighter being,
a more sympathizing ard agreeable COM
ipanion never blessed any man home. When
he afterward called her cold and mathemat-
ical, and Over-pious. and SO forth, it was
when public opinion had gone against him,
and when he had discovered that her fidelity
and mercy, her silence and magnanimity,
might be relied on, SO that he was at full
liberty to make his part good, 50 far as she
was concerned. org g
Silent sbe was even to her own parents,
whose feelings she magnanimously spared
She did not act rashly in leaving him,
though she had been most rash in marrying
him." .'1 aaE gtua .asl'
Not at once did the full knowledge of the
dreadful reality into which she bad entered
come upon the young wife. She knew
vaguely, from the wild avowals of the first
hours of their marriage, that there was a
dreadful secret of guilt, that Byron's soul
was torn with agonies of rsmorse, and that
he had no love to give TO her in return for a
love which was ready to do and dare all for
him. Yet brayely she addressed herself TO
the task of soothing and pleasing, and calm
ing the man whom she had taken q for bet
ter or worse. .---el ~.
Young and gifted, with a peculiar air Of
refined and spiritual beauty; graceful in
every movement; possessed of exquisite
taste; perfect companion to his mind in all
the higher walks of literary culture, and
with that infinite pliability to all his vary
ing, capricious moods which true love alone
can give bearing in her hand princely
fortune, which, with w0man's uncaleulating
generosity, was thrown at his feet,--there is
no wonder that she might feel for awhile as
/ if she could enter the lists with the very
devil himself, and fight with woman Is
weapons for the heart of her husband q
There are ind d;cations scattered through tn,
letters of Lord Byron which, though briei
indeed, showed that his young wife was
making every effort to accommodate herself
to him, sud to give him a cheerful home
One of the poems that he sends to his pub
Usher about this time, be speaks of being
copied by her. He had always the highest
regard for her literary Judgments and opion-
ions, and this little incident shows that she
was already associating herself in vifsly
fashion With his aims as an author. t
Only few days before she left him for
ever, Lord Byron sent Murray manuscripts,
in Lady Byron's handwriting, Of the Siege
of Oorintb and Parisinia, and wrote:
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~ am very glad that the handwriting was
a favorable omen of the morale Of, the piece,
but you must not trust to that, for the copy.
ist would write out anything / desired, in all
the Ignorance of innocence" s4r-f roo
There we're lucid intervals in which Lord
Byron felt the charm of his Wife's mind and
The strength of her powers. Bell, you could
be a poet, too, if you only thought So be
would say. There were summer hours in
her stormy life, the memory Of which never
left her, when Byron, was as gentle and ten
der as he was beautiful; when he seemed to
be possessed by good angel, and then for a
little time all The ideal possibilities of his
nature stood revealed. ~
/ But there came sn hour of revelstion--au
hour when, in manner which left no kind
Of room for doubt, Lady Byron saw the full
debth of the abyss of infamy which her mar
risge was expected to cover, and understood
that she was expected to be the accomplice
Of this infamy. o..sra,r te boz l'7
Many women would have been utterly
crushed by such disclosure; some would
have fled from him Immediately, and expos
ed and denounced the crime. Lady Byron
did neither. When all the hope of woman
hood died out Of her heart, there arose with
in 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 wandsrer Of more
account than the ninety and nine that went
not astrays She would neither leave her
husband nor betray him, nor yet would she
ior one moment Justify bis. sin; aud hence
zane two years Of cOnvulsive struggle, in
which sometime for while, the good angel
seemed 10 gain ground, and then the evil one
-eturned with seyen-fold vehemence. y
Lord Byron argued his case with himself
sud with her, with all the sophistries Of his |
powerful mind. He repndisted Christianity
IS authority, asserted the right Of every hu-
nan being to follow out what be called the |
impulses of nature. Subsequently he in
roducsd into one of his dramas the reason |
" which be justified himself iu incest
These two years, in which Lady Byron
vas with all her soul struggling TO bring her
husband back to his better sell, were series
f passionate conyulsiOns. 1.es-
During this time, such was the Gis1rdered
nd desperate state of his worldly affairs,
hat there were ten executions for debt levied
N their family establishments; and it was
lady Byron fortune each time which SET
led the account. 30 e i7"o'In1 T'l2
Towards the last she and her husband saw
sss and less of each other, and be cameI
1Ors and more decidedly under evil IN
usnces and seemed to acquire sort Of
atred to her. szr tr hsl5 7edi
Lady Byron once said Significantly to a
lend who spoke of some causeless dislike in
mother: My dear Z have known persons to
e hated for no other reason than because
1ey impeTsOuated conscience. -baa
The biOgrapbers of Lord Byron and all
is spOlogists are careful 10 nafrate how
Feet, and amiable, and Obliging he was to
yerybOdy who approached him; and the say
lg Of Fietcher, his man servant that any
ody could do anything with my Lord ,ex-
spt my Lady, has often been quoted.
The reason of all this will now be evident.
Ny Lady was the only one fully under