Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-04-12
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If ohe were searching for th,
portrait Of a man who would b,
dangerous to the other sex, be
would be reckoned satifiSt should
he choose the portrait of Jonathan
Swift. But everybody knows how
he subjngated their minds by his
rancorous pride and savage tyran-
ny, how three of tile sweetest
women in Great Britain looked TO,
all THEN happiness to his harsh
homely lace, until they dropped
with disgust or died of despair =
With what fierce arrogance he de-.
ported himself! A poor scribe,
with nothing in prospect, be was
insolent and hectoring to th.
greatest. When the Duchess of
Shrewsbury reproached him for
not diring with her, he replied thai
il was too much for her to expect
under the circumstances; that she
must make more advances; that he
looked for advances from ladies
especially duchesses. Lady Ogle.
thrope introduced him to the.
Duchess of Hamilton. To use his
own words, he gave her some en-.
couragement, but not much. He
wrote to the Duchess of Queens
berry II am glad you know your
duty for it has been a known and
established rule above twenty
years i'll England that the frs
advances have been continually
made me by all ladies who aspire
to my acquaintance; and the
greater their quality, the greater
were their advances lie seemed
to regard himself as a superior
being, exempt from all social laws
entitled to homage, even of the
highest or of the abiectest sort.
During his residence in England
he appeared to become fond-if
tondness can be associated with
him-of a pretty, amiable, ano
retired girl. Jane Varying, the
sister OF an old college friend. H.
asked her to be his wife; but she
dec!iEed, on account of he. delicate
health. She grew better, and, as
he had charmed her somehow,
she repented of her refusal, and ST.
wrote to him. lie then condescen'
ded to accept her, but accompanied
his acceptance with conditions so
unnatural and Insulting that hel
self respect compelled her to break
with him.
A bright and winning girl, Es-
:her johnson presumed to be the
illegi,imate child cf his patron, ST,
William Temple), whom be bad
reared, who had always revere ed
ard loved him, he treated kindly
and brutally by turns, until he
made her ineffably wretched.
/ While he was in London, still an
other young woman, Hester Van
homrigh, rich AID beautiful, be-
came enamoted OF the great bear
:! declared her passion; followed
him to Ireland ; underwent agonies
Of jealousy appealed to him most
piteously and yet woke no serious
response in his hardened breast.
He mad been atfectionate TO her la
England ; but he changed in Ire
land he seemed bent on torturin z
her. She wrote IF yol continue
to treat me as you do, You will not
long be made uneasy by me. am
sure 1 could haye born the rack
much better than your killing
killing Words She told the melan
choly truth. His brutal behavior
J doomed her she wlthered into the
grave.
For the gentle Esther there was
now chance o. happiness. Swift
claimed that she had always had hi.
heart. lie married her from a sense
OF duty but what marriage 1t wa
P feast in q charnel- hoase, u dance O
S death. The union was secret; it wa.
: TO be nominal merely it was to bt
t an invisible change with deeper in
D ward torment. His home became
i, he'll to HIM. He went to England a
t often as he could, and stayed as long
I Poor Esther J she was twelve year
dying. Nature was as malignant a
! fortune had been; but at last cam
, the end, and blessed oblivion. Th
I man who had slowly murdered CIV,
;. devoted women paid the penalt,
= which crime uurelentingly exacts.-
. Stella, as he called her, had indee'
been his good angel. He had beel
wretched with Ter; he was NOR
wretchcd without her. AS he ha'
Is predicted, he died at the top. III
e passed a whole year without utterin
e word-with dread of seeing
& human face. He sank into ravin
II lunat:c, then into helpless idiot, an
e was buried years after he had vii
h tually died, leaving all his propert
st to build mad-house. Is it such me
st whom women love? But let juds
ment be charitable. A man wh
could treat good, gentle, devote
Le women as Swift treated them must b
~ insane from the first.
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