The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-11
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Tho next morning Sarah did not appear Will
his breakfast as usual. but when the following
} day he took occasion to go into the parlor 70
the newspaper, she gave 1t to him with era
cous smile. and seemed tolerably frank ant
cordial" That evening she came UP with thu
tea things and brought him the little statuettt
OF Bonaparte which he had given her. as be
fore mentioned, saying: II told you I'd keep 4
safe for YOU" Her manner in making this
commonplace remark threw him into ecstacies
and he replied: You know 1t is not mine. but
yours. gave 1t you; nay, have given yor
all-my heart and whatever possess Is yours.
She declined the offer again. and when lie
sought another interview that same evening
she refused to come further than the door
when he took her hand. sat down In chair
and talked with her three quarters OF an hour
without success, He tried to kiss her at part
Ing. but she obstinately refused. and he follow
cd her half way down stairs. but to no purpose.
Then ensued an outbreak on his part which
abundantly justified all that Mr. Patmore
wrote about the fear with which he had in
spired the family. He describes it himself,
as follows:
could bear It no longer 1RRve way TO all the fury
OF disappointed hope and Jealous passion. made
tho dupe OF trick and cunning killed with cold suen
scorn; and after all tho agony had suffered could
obtain no explanation why was subjected toit was
still to be tantazed, tortured made the cruel sport
one for whom would have sacrificed all tore tho
| iocket which contained her hair. and which used
| to wear continually in my bosom the precious
| token OF her dear regard from my neck and
| rampled 1t In pieceA then dashed tho little
bonaparto OH tho ground and stamped upon It
one OF her instruments Of mockory. could not stay In
the room; could not leave It; my rage, my despair
were uncomfortable. I shrieked curses her name
and on her false love; and the scream uttered $50 pitt
fu and piercing was It that tho sound OF terrified MOI
instantly brought the whole house father, mother,
lodRerS and all into my They thought was de-
stroying her and myself Ihad gone into the bedroom
merely to hide away from myself raging mad with tho
new sense OF present shame and misery. Mrs. r
said: She's in there lie has got her in there" think
Ing the cries had proceeded from her.
Breaking away from these witnesses OF his
madness Hazlitt rushed into the street. but as
he says. the eddying violence OF my passion
drove me back to the source from whence it
sprung" He found Sarah's father waiting for
him at the door, took him I'D to his room. and
had with him long discussion OF the matter. in
which he recounted all Sarahs acts Of encour-
agement OF his addresses. and demanded an ex-
PLANTATION of her conduct which the father was
unable to give Tho upshot Of it all was that
Hazlitt resolved to wait patiently for a month.
and then to offer himself again. The
next morning Sarah sent him back all the
presents he had made her. and for a week
he saw nothing Of her. At the end OF that
period. which he passed In state Of frenzy.
alternating between hope and despair. he sent
for her. She came. and they had q long talk
together, which he sets down in full but the
substance OF 1t was the same. She had ceased
to care for him. denied that she ever had cared
for him, and refused hi1 hand positively. He
then went down and talked an hour with her
mother. who could tell him nothing moro than
that there was no ono else In the way. He next
tried her brother-in-law but with no better
success. Then he had another interview with
her. but she was Istill stubborn. After this he
went back to Scotland and returned, and then
tho end Of the romance came
At an early stage OF their acquaintance Haz-
lit had suspected that Sarah was carrying on
a filtration with another lodger in the same
house. a Mr. c.. as we'll as with himself. but
with feminine cunning she had auieted him,
protesting that she cared nothing for his sup
posed rival, and even having the audacity to
pretend that she had been once. two years be-
fore. In love with another man. much her su-
perior In social position for whom she still
cherished tender regard. Hazlitt was so
much impressed with this story. and with her
pretence that the Bonaparte statuette. tho
little image" reminded her OF her old
lover. that in fit OF romantic generosity
he gave 1t to her After he had broken
1t In pieces In his frenzy. she took it
and brought It back mended. He wanted
to pay her for 1t, but she would not take tho
money. In the evening OF the same day he sent
for her ostensibly to offer again to pay her. but
really to gain another interview with her. and |
was told she had gone to her grandmother's at
Somers Town. His suspicious were aroused. |
and he went out Into the street to find her. He |
found her. indeed, but she was walking with |
the same Mr.. O. OF whom he had been
jealous a year before. He ut once taxed
her with her deceitfulness, and elected
from her only defiant answer. but
as luck would have 1t. he mot 9. himself
Immediately atterward, and got from him the
information that for three months
previous to Hazlitt'S departure for Scotland
Sarah had been playing with him the same
game that she played with Hazlitt, and had
kept up the intimacy ever since. He break
tasted first and enjoyed an hour OF her society.
and then Hazlitt took his turn! She denied as
positively to him that there was anything be-
tween her and Hazlitt as she did to Hazlitt
that there was anything between her and O.
Az Hazlitt says, he seemed when he learned
thisI to have been thrown from the top OF a
preciDice. and to lie grovelling' stunned. and
stupehed. At any rate he soon became cured
Of his passion. and In a year married we'll
.o-do widow. from whom. however. he sep
lrated. after short time.
or course this whole narrative is open to the
suspicion OF being mainly II not entirely the
product Of HazlItts Imagination. Such stories
nave been written by Goethe and other authors.
n which few meagre facts OF their own OK
1erience have been used as the basis OF an ex-
banded fiction. But tho "Libor Amoris }" was
accepted by Hazlitt's own acquantances as
a true record. His wife told him
II a part OF 1t which appeared In the Mem
Monthly Magazine. that 1T was most injudicious
hing to publish 1t. De Quincy writes Of the
,ook: 1t was an explosion Of frenzy. He threw
tut his eamorous anguish to the clouds. and to
he winds. and TO the air. caring not who might
isten, who might sympathIze who might sneer.
Pity was no demand of his. laughter no wrong.
The sole necessity for him was TO empty his
spirit" His friend and conf
liant. Mr.. Patmore, confirms many OF the de-
ails and his grandson in his biography Of
i'm. treats the work as In the main accurate.
living some OF the original documents from
which 1t Is made IN. In whatever light 1t iS
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