The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-03
CHAPTER KILL.

! have commonly reckoned 1t among. my
lords greatest .misfortunes that IN a crisis of
could afford, he had neither wife nor child to
loss of dignity, ne might receive comfort and
support. He was a solitary man., separated
e ences ' as, we'll sH'i religious as - POLITICAL il and from
the world at large by the grnndeur of a position
which imposed burdens as oncrous as the
privileges 1t conferred were rare.
To a melancholy habit, which some attributed
to the sad circumstances attendant on his
which he had been induced to make on reach
ing manhood. he added a natural shyness and
reserve; qualities which. ordinarily yelled
the most charming and easy In the world, were
none the less Or .aoles where friendship was in
question. Not that Of friendship there was
much among. the political men, Of that day.
The perils and uncertainties of the time inCul-
blood or marriage c~einentcd the tic. as in the
Case OF Lords sunderland, Godolphin, and
Cavendishcl. But. he that rs it may, my lord
stood outside these bonds and enjoyed and rued
fortune for that strange combination of great
posts with personal loneliness. which was TO
Chamber bs %eT' Of 7t 6.T iEIs M GS1te1,ed Queen in the SDS as' ss
square, Or At Tyiord, among the Glonccster,
shire wolds, a; much apart as any m"n in Lon
Withal, l knew men called him the King of
title seemed the sign and seal was fictitious and
unreal, born, while they talked with him, of his
spontaneous kindness and boundless address,
doomed to perish an hour later of spite and an.
Wy or of Sheer innnltiOn, since the Duke was
sensitive, over proud for intimacy, tuttcred no
man, and gave no confidence.
Such a one babe fair, when in trouble, to eat
out his heart, Prone to fancy all mems hands
against him, he doubled the shame and outdid
the most sCnndalOus. So far, indeed. was no
from deriving comfort from things that would
have restored such men as my Lord Marlborough
10 perfect self-resrect and composurc, that |
believe, and, in fine, had 1t from himself, that
the letter which the E'ng wrote to him from
Loo. and which came to his hands through Lord
Portiand's three days after the interview with
his Grace of Dcvonshire, panied him more sensi-
bl. than all that had gone before.
you may judge OF my establishment" his
Majesty wrote, lat his etfrontery in accusing
you. You are, ] trust, too fully convinced OF
the entire confidence which ! place in you TO
think that such stories can make any impress
sion on me-. You will observe this honest mans
vice, and not one of his own party"
1t will he understood that that in his Majos-
tvs letter which touched my lord home was
less the magnanimity displayed in IL than the
remembrance that once before the sovereign
had dealt with tho subject in the same spirit.
and that now tho world must know this. OF
the immediate accusation, with all its de-
tails of time and circumstance, he thought lit
tie, believing not only that the truth must
quickly sweep it away, but that in the mean
/ time few would be found so credulous as 10
put faith in II.
charge would rub the old sore and gall the old
raw, and he WINGED, seated alone in his library