This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...more romantic, but more entertaining. " As for the likeness," says he, with mendacious untruthfulness, " the picture can't be good--I did not sit long enough." Hearing of this remark with various others of a similar kind made by him, poor, foolish, impetuous Lady Caroline was so incensed that she resolved to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...more romantic, but more entertaining. " As for the likeness," says he, with mendacious untruthfulness, " the picture can't be good--I did not sit long enough." Hearing of this remark with various others of a similar kind made by him, poor, foolish, impetuous Lady Caroline was so incensed that she resolved to punish and show her indifference to him, by burning his letters, his portrait, and the presents he had made her. Lady Caroline was at this time staying at Brocket Hall, whose glorious wide-spreading park, studded by old trees and watered by a winding stream, seemed to her the most fitting scene for the ceremony which her erratic mind devised. Accordingly she ordered to be built in the park a huge bonfire shaped like a funeral pyre, that would serve as the instrument of her sacrifice. When various preparations were completed, and notice of her intentions had been spread abroad, she set out one sunny morning in May from the Hall, dressed in flowing draperies and attended by a procession of maidens in virgin white who scattered primroses in her path. With the stately and solemn air of a priestess proceeding to a rite, she passed under budding boughs of limes and chestnuts and fragrant hawthorn, until she reached the pyre, when taking a portrait of Byron, a ribbon-tied bundle of letters, and the presents he H fantastic Scene 165 had given her, she silently and sadly placed them on its summit. A torch was then handed to her, which with the air of a Fury she brandished thrice above her head and then set fire to the holocaust. As the flames kindled, hissed, and leaped, the white-robed maidens joined hands and danced in a circle round and round the pyre, to the strains of a chant Lady Caroline had composed and taught them for the occasion. The scene...
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