New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06
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thsy had come 20 Reigate for some larger and more
| momentOus communication was shown 70 MIS-.
Leigh both by their words and looks; anu u as
trsssed Mrs. Leigh greatly on aud after her return
To town. indsd till the end of the brief re nalnder OF
| her DAYS to know that Mr. Robertson suspected ner
OF refranlDg at the last moment from saying wnat
she ought to have said, and what she had come
there to tell them. These expressions IF dssatsfac
ton OH the part Of Lady Byron and the clergyman
were followed by words between the ladies', tnat
did not make them better friends. Lady Byron a.
rectly charged Mrs. Leigh with sggrayating Byrons
bitterness to her. ana encouraging him 10 remain III
enmity toward her. Mrs. Leigh repealed the accu-
saton warmly. and IN support of her assertions
that she had consistently aud invariably done her
best to BIO peace maker. quoted certain words
spoken By HObh0use.-worls that aRiated Lady
Byron profoundly, causing her 10 start ana cnange
color. Of course, no good caine 0f all this. Lazy
Byron returned to Brighton VITA determination
never again TO see or hold communication with nei
slser-in- law. And Mrs. Leigh went back to London
in grief at Lady Byron's perplexing treatment OF
her.
Mrs Leigh would fan have seen Mr.. Robertson
again. to satisfy him by the exhibition OF letters
that she had spoken nothing but the truth to Lazy
BY ron in his hearing. But rs ne was of opinion no
good could come of the Interview from his exam
nation of the documents the clergyman declined
to see her again on the matter or 40 further INTO
the business IL is nothing to Mrs. Leighs ds@redIt
that Mr.. Robertson regarded her with something
more than suspicion; for his NINA was wholly pre-
posse sSed by the ions OF the other lady
Six months later when Mrs. Leigh was on her
deathbed sinking slowly. Lady Byron then IN town
or at Esher) was constant In her inquiries Tor Per
sister Dawi and some OF her inquiries indlcal cd q
faint revival of her Od fOndness for The diving lazy
She even begged that the wOrds-Dearest Augusta
might be whispered the diving ones ear. as
coming to her love and sympathy from her sister
Byron; and this brief message was actually gwen
10 Mrs Leigh, who acknowledged il with an exhi-
bitun of feeling that was duly reported 10 the
poets widow But neither OF The sisters-in-law saw
The other again and though she seems to have re-
Tented to Augusta under the shadow OF approaching
death, it is certain that Lady BvrOu's anlmOsIty
against 6yrOns sister revived SOON after the Rra7e
had closed o,e her. Though she often helped them
with her purse. and vas their itful beneiactTess,
Lady ByrOu's relations with Mrs. Leighs children
we're not altogether TO her credit. Sometimes they
cOuntenanced the opinion that she valued them
and felt amiably to them, in proportion AZ
she conld use them as Instruments for their
mothers annoyance or discredit, and dlsre-
gardcd them In proportion as they distln-
guishel themselves by devotedness to their
much suffering parent, or 10 her memory. when her
sutiefings had enued. Within nine months OF Mrs..
Leighs death Lady Byron did her utmost to lower
Augusts in the esteem of one of Augustus more
faithful and aiectiOnate children. The luminosity
tina made her desrous OF setting the child against
the dead mother not imperative In Lazy
BYrOn's breast, when she told evil of her dead SIS
ter in law TO comparative strangers; when she told
the hdeOus story to so slight acquaintance as
Mrs. Beecher Stowe. we'll knowing that Mrs. SJO we
was q person not unlikely to communicate 1t to the
world But enough has been SAID to show That
Lady Byr0ns anmus toward her sister In law was
not as simple Mrs Stowe maginedl the anlmus OF
Christian woman overlooking with charity and
tenderness to Que of her sex.