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Many in the hall, indeed, were already going, and she could not quite understand why no one on the platform had as yet moved. Then came that bald-headed old gentleman to her, to her very self, and suggested to her that she, she, Lady George Germain, who the other day was Mary Lovelace, the Brotherton girl, should stand up and make a speech!
No, it is because the sword and the pen for once met together in the hand of a man, because a soldier and a lover and a poet met together in a song. One might almost say that Lovelace wrote his lyric first with his sword, and merely copied it out with his pen.
Here also was imprisoned Colonel Lovelace, who wrote within the gloomy walls the well-known lines: "When, linnet-like, confinéd I With shriller note shall sing The mercye, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my King; When I shall voyce aloud how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty.
Lovelace did foresee this consequence. All his contrivances led to it, and the whole family, as he boasts, unknown to themselves, were but so many puppets danced by his wires. See Vol.I. Letter XXXI. In short, I have done, as far as I know, the most rash thing that ever I did in my life. But let me give you the motive, and then the action will follow of course.
I will myself be content to direct you at some third place; and I shall then be able to aver to my mother, or to any other, if occasion be, that I know not where you are. Besides, this measure will make you less apprehensive of the consequences of their violence, should they resolve to attempt to carry you of in spite of Lovelace. I would have you direct to Mr. Hickman, even your answer to this.
Sends up the letter to the lady. She writes to Miss Howe, upon perusing it, to suspend for the present her application to Mrs. Townsend. LETTER L. From the same. An interview all placid and agreeable. Now is he in a train. All he now waits for is a letter from Lord M. Inquires after their marriage by a stranger of good appearance. The lady alarmed at them. LETTER LI. Lovelace to Belford.
So have I seen a gentleman in comedy acting the shopman. So Lovelace sold his gloves in King Street. I admired the histrionic art, by which he contrived to carry clean away every notion of disgrace, from the occupation he had so generously submitted to; and from that hour I judged him, with no after repentance, to be a person, with whom it would be a felicity to be more acquainted.
What new talents does it discover in you! But proceed If it be a pleasure to you, proceed, Bella. And since I must not pity you, I will pity myself: for nobody else will. Because you don't, said she Hush, Bella, interrupting her, because I don't deserve it I know you were going to say so. I will say as you say in every thing; and that's the way to please you. Then say, Lovelace is a villain.
Moreover, all the London guests who were visiting Thelma came in for a share of the county magnates' servile admiration. They found the Winsleighs "so distingue" Master Ernest instantly became "that dear boy!" Beau Lovelace was "so dreadfully clever, you know!" and Pierre Duprez "quite too delightful!"
They all thought and think that Lovelace is something like what Milton's Satan was, and what my Lord Byron would have liked to be. This is very unfair to the Prince of Darkness: and it is even not quite just to "the noble poet." Those merits, indeed, are absolutely incontestable.
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