The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

cacy and discretion, are more valuable
documents concerning his subjects life
in the East than all the others put to-
gether. lie was an inmate of her
household from the beginning Of 1910
to the beginning Of 1917. reJoned her as
a married man for six months In 1881.
when she promptly quarrelled with his
wife, and again, In compliance with an
urgent Macedonian cry in 1887. when
she refused to see his wife at all, but he
remained near her and in a position to
render her both professional and
friendly aid and comfort until July,
1898, when he took his final leave Of her
She died the following year. While the
doctor was with her the record Of her
doings in Syria Is satisfactorily COM
plete. During his absence II Is almost n
blank.
1t was early in 1910 that Lady Hester
and her party set sail from the land
she was destined never to see again.
For the niece OF Pitt there was no diff
Guilty in arranging n passage on board
British man OF war, and most of her
| subsequent voyaging in the Mediter-
, ranean and the Levant was done in
, this manner. It was ut Gibraltar that
/ she met Michael Bruce. who was to play
! a conspicuous part In her career. Tho
original plan Of winter in Sicily had
to Ike given up on account Of the dis
| turbed condition OF the island. and
Malta was chosen instead. At Malta,
| according 10 the doctor. his charge
managed after n week ito affront al
most all the women in the place. She
has the most thorough contempt for
| A.. - Il.
converse on nothing but visits caps and
tonnets. and such frivolous subjects"
II was at Malta that she met John Cam
Hobhouse. afterward Lord Broughton.
the friend Of Byron. who delivered upon
her what seems to have been the gen.
cral judgment: Il met Mr.. Bruce and
Lady Hester Stanhope. n masculine
woman who says she would as soon live
with packhorses as with women. She
seems to me violent pcremptory per-
son." Later, at Athens, she encountered
| Byron himself. who wrote OF her to
Hobhouse: "Do not admire that dan
gerous thing. a female wit
have seen too little OF the lady to form
any decisive opinion. but I have dis
covered nothing different from other
she-things. except q great disregard of
4 iCNCANCu ilcE COnN0TSdIlOu uS
we'll as conduct. ] don't know whether
this will recommend her to our sex.
but I am sure II won't to her own"
Her opinion OF the poet was that he
| was "a mass Of Alterations and that
his good looks consisted only in the
shape Of his face and the curl on his
forehead. Meantime she was justifying
his opinion Of her unconventionallty by
I sVa AL tr~ at~ To-
her doctor and two other young men.
one Michael Bruce and the other Lord
Sligo.
She was about to justify i, stnl moro
conclusivcly by accepting the love OF
young Bruce while refusing his offer OF
marriage. With her usual holdncss
she announced her intention 20 her
friends, at especial length 20 her friend
General Cakes. commanding ut Malta
who wrote her a panied and sensible
letter: Il fear II may hereafter caus,
both you and Bruce much trouble am
Distress. II was, II may be supposed
the disparity Of ages which induced her
to decline tying up her lover. She wa.
. 80 and he Fl. Also she may have ha,
, doubts about her own cons;ancy. thoucl
IL was two years and half since ST
ool.h fio'It Iltu Ittn NlIiti. NhtuTdIl'
her decision aiienatcd from hcr the onl,
one OF her lalf-brothers whom she Ina,
not alienated already. She promised III,
, young mans father that she would Civ,
/. him up when the time came for him I,
return home and that she would no
) stand In the way OF his marriage witt
! another woman. monk" Lewis wrot,
announcing the scandal and adding: :"
' - i'm "A
would rather he than l." The youn,
/ man was IA trifiing person. with nothnl
but his good looks. but all Lady Hes
r ter's geese were swans at least for ;
season, and she magniiied him accord
9 ingly. He left her after three years
got himself mixed up in Laval.tte's plo
- against Napoleon and was .mrr!sonr,
4 in Paris for three months. returned {,
5 London apparently as q fortune aunte,
{ and married an elderly widow witt
! several children. The consequences {,
! Lady Hester Were more serious. TN
A most serious was that it turned he
: wayfarings into a permanent exile. No
2 even she had the face tn return TO Lon
. don society with the record which sh
had taken no pains to conceal left be
J. hind her IN the East.
!. a century, during tho whole Of whicl
;, there was no further talk about he
e and any man. The Arabs" sh
h Boosted. "look upon me as neither
man nor n woman, but az bcin
c apart" which indeed she came neu
l being; and II was with the Arabs an
u the Turks that her intercourse WA
y thenceforth to be rather than Wit
Europeans The influence which sh
:, acquired and exerted alike among til
Turkish officials and the tribcsmen Wa
extraordinary and quite unpreccdente,
T. the more remarkable because she neye
y announced a conversion TO Islam. Til
u income upon which she complained tina
. she would have been wretched in Lon
don would have amounted To af'iuenc
. in Syria and enabled her To live i
y splendor il she had husbanded IL wit
decent prudence: but this was one ,
. the things which, as a Pitt, it was in
possible for her to do. One of the fe,
. faults one has to find with her bioe
:, rapher Is that he IL not sufficient
minute upon this article Her pensio
of $500 was not her only resourc,
We hear of inheritances and bequest
= but do not get n clear notion of wha