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If we have confidence that vengeance is the Lord's and He will repay, where but in that faith shall we find an outlet for our indignation at once so secure, so consolatory, and so cheap? It was the pious answer made by Dr. Delany to Swift at the time when, torn by cruel rage, Swift was entering upon the struggle against Ireland's misery.
A broad flood of moonlight came in through the curtainless window; everything was as I had last seen it; and though the domestic squabble in the back lane was, unhappily for me, allayed, I yet could hear a pleasant fellow singing, on his way home, the then popular comic ditty called, 'Murphy Delany. Taking advantage of this diversion I lay down again, with my face towards the fireplace, and closing my eyes, did my best to think of nothing else but the song, which was every moment growing fainter in the distance:
During more than two years after the King's recovery, Frances dragged on a miserable existence at the palace. The consolations, which had for a time mitigated the wretchedness of servitude, were one by one withdrawn. Mrs. Delany, whose society had been a great resource when the Court was at Windsor, was now dead.
If Richard Delany was anxious before to wed his cousin for love, he was now half crazy to take that step by which both love and ambition would be gratified to the utmost. He actually loved her ten times as much as formerly. The "beggar" was beautiful, but the baroness was bewitching! Spurred on, then, he determined to move heaven, earth and the other place, if necessary, to accomplish his object.
"Impanel a jury!" continued the judge, and Mr. Tutt conducted Tony inside the rail and sat down beside him at the table reserved for the defendant. "It's all right, Tony!" he whispered. "The frame-up isn't on you this time, my lad." Cowering in the back of the room Delany tried to hide himself among the spectators. Some devilish thing had gone wrong.
"Ve'll get rid of him for good, eh?" "Sure," assented Delany. "Come along, you!" Tony Mathusek lifted a white face drawn with agony from his tortured arm. "Say, mister, you got the wrong feller! I didn't break the window. I was just comin' from the house " "Aw, shut up!" sneered Delany. "Tell that to the judge!" "Y' ain't goin' to take me to jail?" wailed Tony. "I wasn't with them boys.
"But after awhile," said Harry, "as Miss Delany and myself were sitting together, laughing and chatting, a colored man entered the car, and, mistaking me for a white man, asked the conductor to have me removed, and I had to insist that I was colored in order to be permitted to remain. It would be ludicrous, if it were not vexatious, to be too white to be black, and too black to be white."
Autobiography of Mrs Delany. 1861. Vol I. p. 554. See Fielding's ironic reference to such "iniquitous surmises" in the Dedication to the Historical Register. The earliest newspaper reference, so far available, is that of the Daily Journal for April 6 1737, which speaks of April 11 as the ninth day of the Register.
The man whom she had the misfortune to love was, as Delany observes, fond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself, different from the general course of things and order of Providence.
Delany was settling down to being the wife of a dean. The summer was devoted to the composition of Belshazzar, for which Jennens had supplied the libretto.
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