The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-30

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the doctor asking what he had better do
The doctors answer was to pack up tn
lady's clothes and other belongings and
send them to Byron's rooms with q mes
sAge Co the effect that he wished him JOY
Of the adventure. The upshot Of Il all wa,
that Byron consented 60 take Mrs. Pedlsy
20 England. but gave her very little Of hi:
society and parted with her Immediately
on landing That Il the tale. but Il Il from
an anonymous hand and there IL nothing
90 provo the truth Of It,
Concerning the Turkish girl who wa
loved by Byron in Athens and who VA
providentially met and saw ed by him while
she vas being taken In bag 20 bo drowned
Byron's account OF that matter. a. it il
reported In Medwin's Conversations.
has never csased TO be n US surprising
u was taking one Of my usual evening
rides by tho seaside says Byron. when
I observed q crowd OF people moving down
30 the shoro. and the arms Of the soldiers
glittering among them. They were not
so far on but that thought could now
and then distinguish faint and stified
Shrek My curiosity was forcibly sx-
cited. and dispatched one OF my fol-
sion. What was my horror 10 learn that
they were carrying an unfortunate girl.
sewn up in q sack. 10 be thrown into the
seal did not hesitate a. 10 what was To
be done. know I could depend on my
faithful Albanians and rode up 20 the
officar commanding the party. threaten
ing in case Of his refusal 10 give up his
prisoner that ! would adopt means to
compel him. He did not like the business
he was on. or perhaps the determined look
of roy body guard. and consented to
accompany me back 20 the city with the
girl. whom discovered TO be my favorite
Suffice IL IN say that my interference
with the chief Magistrate backed by q
heavy brbe. saved her; but it was only
on condition that I should break on all
intercourse with her and that she should
Immediately quit Athens and be sent %
her friends in Thobes. There she died
few days after her arrival. Of a fever.
perhaps Of love-
Lady Hester Stanhope was ono OF
several who met Byron in the course
Of this journey and commented upon
him. A sort OF Don Quixote fighting
with the police for a woman OF the town
that Is Lady Hesters observation upon
the rescue Of the girl In the sack. He
wanted To make himself something great,
she continues, but she denies that he
succeeded. He had she said. "a great
deal Of vice in his looks. his eyes set close
together and a contracted brow The
lady shakes her head over his perform
anc"s N poet As for poetry. IL u
easy enough 20 write verses and as for
tho thnu0hsa vrho k0nw~ rh.n. ha 80,
th-mI Many a on. picks up some old
book that nobody knows anything about
aud gets his IDEAS out OF it,
Sir Stratford Canning. az that time
Secretary Of Embassy az Constantinople.
waS another who made notes OF the poet.
The Sultan gave an audience TO the dip
lomatio corps. We had assembled in
the NALL 81 our so-called palace Sir
relates. when Lord Byron
arrivei IN scarlet regimentais topped
by a orofusely fsathsred cooked hat,
and coming up 90 me asked what his
place as ~ peer ~ the realm was 20 he In
the PROCESSION. referred him 20 Mr..
Adair. who had not yet left his room.
and tho upehot Of their private interview
was that. a. the Turks ignored all but
any amateur. though a peer.
must he content IN follow in the wake OF
the Embassy. His lordship thereupon
walked away with that look Of scornful
which so well became his
fine. imperious features
The book relates infinitely and wildly
4 great many matters-how "Childe Har-
old was advertised quite in the energetic
present day manner; how AZ a dinner given
by Rogers Byron refused soup. fish. NUT
ton and wine and dined upon potatoes
bruised down upon his plate and drenched
With vinegar. whereafter the pose having
accom- plished It's effect he went 90 a club
and ate a hearty meat supper: how Lady
caroline Lamb who was mad. threw her
self AZ tho poets head: how Byron was
and separated from his wife; how
the dark scandal provided by Mrs Stowe
and by Byrons grandson. Lord Lovelace.
ran its course. how Byron succumbed 20
the urgent Mis- ClAirnont; how he pur-
sued his debaucheries in Venice. where he
got fat and his hair grew long and he
drank spirits and wrote Manfred and
Don Juan; how he complained that
although Guiccioli's husband was a very
polite parsonage he wished he would not
larry him out in his coach and SIX like
and his cat II In full story
and IL sets out everything very explicitly