The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-15
Vence Newbu Berkshire home Of the Marave and
Margarine Of Anspah, property OF Sir Richard Sutton
Memoirs of the Beautiful Lady Craven
Given to the Public Again
After Many Years


III your Ladyship will tell me how.
will do better. / do as well as I can"
One winter I was much surprised to
find that often when Lord Craven told
me he was going to hunt in Hampshire
or Wiltshire he had been in neither
place; but In London and not residing
in our own house. Of course began
to grow very uneasy; and soon dis
covered that he had formed another at
ta"hment to "A person whom he had
found at the Crown Inn. by chance. at
Reading: left there FOR debt by a gay
Colonel, whose mistress she was till
tired by her extravaganza he had left
her and her charms IN pledge to pay
Ter .'eckoning.
Consideration for an excellent family
prevents her being named here, but
originally she had run away with
worthy man and married him. She
soon left him for a gay Captain, who,
disguised with her profuseness. deserted
her. and she came back upon the town.
Her many admirers soon forsoOk her
when Lord Craven unfortunately be-
came acquainted with her. He took
excursions with her and she drank at
tat,e with him and then gained an as
tendency over him-a melancholy proof
that they who never read nor reflect
are always at the mercy OF those who
will f!a;ter the whiri Of the moment.
This connection necessarily prevented
me from seeing much OF my husband,
and he appeared not so happy or amused
at the sight Of his children as usual;
all doubts were, however, removed, had
| there been any. when one day Lord
Mccartney came to me and entreated
me to prevent Lord Craven from travel
| ling in one Of my coaches with a woman
| who called herself Lady Craven and
| conducted herself at inns in such a
manner as to reflect upon and tarnish
| my character. And" added Lord
| Mccartney. "if Lord Berkeley knows
| this he will certainly call Lord Craven
out" Lord Mccartney had passed
| through Dunchurch. where Lord Craven
and the lady had slept.
When Lord Craven arrived in Lon
| don, in Charles street, after he had
seen me and the children, I sent them
out Of the room and told him that l had
a favor to ask OF him. which was that
he would not permit his mistress to call
herself Lady Craven. He looked much
confused. rose from where he was sit
! ting and walked about the room some
time. He then asked how long It was
that I had known that he had mis-
tress. To this l replied. above a
twelvemonth." He then took some more
walks across the room, when, SUDDEN!
stopping and clasping his hands to-
gether, he threw his eyes up to heaven
and exclaimed, by c.. you are the
best natured woman in the world"
When Keppel Craven was about
years old. Just before the Christmas
holidays. which Lord Craven always
spent with his wife, children and friends
at one Of his beautiful seats, his Lord
ship one day sent for me into hi
dressing room, ana. with much EN-
barrassment. said: II am going to Lon
don: I shall not pass the Christina!
, here: and when ! go ! shall never see
your face again." I named to hin
the people I expected to come. ant
represented to him how extraordinary
Il would appear to some Of them II HI
were absent: but he said that ne wa
determined never to see me more. tt
this I answered.: "That is, to part will
me-" He replied. "Yes." I then pro
ceeded as far as the door. and. turnini
round, said, with the greatest calm
ness I could collect: "The parting OF .
husband and wife, who have lived to
, gether for thirteen years and have sew
eral children. and the fortunes Of thos
children at the mercy Of a father misle'
. Ia a thing of too great consequence +
those children for me not to take tn
best advice upon such an event." and
. retired to my own sitting room.
It ia an injustice to the Queen I
imagine that a relaxed system was in
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