Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-23

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her grave. and that her name should
not be craven upon the headstone. 1t
was after her death that Lord Corn
wallis returned TO service in America,
the end of which was also, for him, mel
ancholy enough.
We read. with a good deal of amuse-
ment, of romantic and passionate at
tachment of young Grote, afterward the
historian of Greece, for Harriet Levin,
who is described in his letters as being,
of course, very lovely, but, in after days
at least, was eccentric, strong-featured,
and masculine.
Among the runaway matches men
toned is that OF Henry Fox, the first
Lord Holland. lie fell in love with
Lady Charlotte Lennon, and, being re-
fused by the family, ran away with the
lady. But his subsequent career fully
justified the rashness of his action, for
he certainly showed that he knew how
to make money and keep it, till Charles
Fox, his son, cultivated in him the IA
Guilty of giving il away.
John Scott, afterward Lord Eldon,
also ran away with his wife at very
L
Surtees descended into her lovers arms
is still pointed out to every visitor TO
Newcastle as lie pauSeS before the ola
house-the home of the wealthy banker,
her father-in Sandhill, not five hun
dred yards from the great bridge which
spans the Tyne. In his old age Lord
Eldon used TO tell how piteouS was their
condition.
ION the third morning after the
union our funds were exhausted: we
had not home to go TO, and we knew
not whether our friends would ever
speak to us again" One OF his earliest
legal experiences was in reading, as
substitute. the Vinerian law lecture. 81
began" he says without knowing a
single word that was in it. 1t was upon
the statute of young men running
away with maidenS. Fancy me read
ing, with about 40 boys and young
men all giggling at the professor. Such
tittcring audience no one ever had"
The Scanty means of the young people
had one unpleasant effect. They devel-
oped in the young bride habits of thrift
which hardened into extreme parSimony
She was also very avcrSe to society, for
the runaway marriage made her deli
cately sensitive about society in the be-
ginning, and at last it became diStaste
full to her. CuriouSly enough their eld
est daughter married without the con-
sent of her parents.
The story of Southey'S love and mar
rage can never be absent from such Il
compilation of this sort. No man ever
had less right to get married than
Southey. He Lad no money, no profess
sion, interpolation, no place in the world,
and, more than this, he was dependent
on his friend Cottle, who had been sup
plying him with money. Cottle had to
supply him even with the ring and the
money for the wedding. After that be-
ginning he lived long life of anxious
earnest literary labor. earning not
much, winning no great fame, but leav
! ing behind HIM amemory rich in every
sort of private virtue and worth. No
doubt his wife, both as bride and
during all her life, had much the
heaviest part Of the daily burden
to bear. She bore it nobly, and died.
| indeed, a martyr to duty toward her |
husband and children, her last days be-
ing clouded by mental troubles which
caused her TO be secluded. Forty years |
had they been married when Edith died. !
Southeys own life was not to be long, |
and his latest days were also passed in
Il gentle mental alienation which con-
tinued till he died.
The list of ''unhappily married" is
large and brilliant. 1t includes William |
Beckford, the author Of ''Nathek, who, |
however, does not seem to have de-
served a happy life, whose enormous
fortune and great talents were alike !
wasted: Lady BlcSSington, who, from |
being the widow of a pennileSS officer,
bazed as Lady BleSSington over London |
society, fizzled out again after
Lord BleSSington'S death, had a
| ftful splendor once more as a |
leader of quasi literary cotcrie,
and finally smashed up and went away
to Paris, where she died suddenly. She
and Count d'Orsay led sort of matri
monial partnership for some years,
until the Smash-up took place in Lon
don. Lord Bolingbrokc is also quoted,
with prOpriety, as an example of I'M
happy domestic experiences. In his
case, however, the faults were all on
his side. He was absolutely without
morality, and almost without decency,
| for he Dragged to his wife of his early
amours and successes TIL she was forced,
| in Self-defcnse to close his mouth with
an effective sarcasm.
Lord Lytton. in his own time, was
also unhappily, though romantically.
married, and Il large part, at least, of
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temper and conduct. But perhaps full
! justice has not been done to the i'll
effects of the long and hard struggle
with poverty, which he maintained with
such success, but with such constant
labor, during many years.
Among the disappointed men of ge
MUS may be mentioned Buckle, the his
torian of civilizations; Henry Fielding,
the novelist: Edward Gibbon, the histo-
rian: Lord Mansfield, and, in early life.
John Wesley. The case of GibbOn has
some Satirical features. He fell in love
with Mile. Curchod, at Lausanne,
Switzerland, and "Shc listened" he
says, "to the voice of truth and
passion; and | might presume to
! hope that / had made some impression
/ on VlrtuOuS neart. But on his re-
turn to England he found that his
! father would not consent to the match
after painful struggle" he says, Il
yielded to my fate: sighed as a lover:
| obeyed as a SON." 1t may be difficult
to decide, without doubt. whether
his obedience was due to filal piety or
to weak nerves and feeble pulsation.
The lady did quite as well, for she mar
ried distinguished man.
Gibbon remained single all his life and
devoted his time to his history, finishing
it at Lausanne, the scene of his youthful
attachment. Charles Fox's private lite
was made somewhat Objectionable by
his having as his wife Mrs. Ormistead,
TO whom he was not married for many
years, though finally they were united
/ legally. The MARQUIS of Wellesley also