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Updated: June 28, 2025
"There is plenty of time to call on her to-day. I will set our doubts at rest before Miss Benshaw goes out for her afternoon drive." On that understanding they parted. Toward evening Cosway's arrangements for the elopement were completed. He was eating his solitary dinner when a note was brought to him. It had been left at the door by a messenger.
But here the old custom reversed is seen, For the lion's without, and the monkey's within. According to Smith, a certain ape-like look in Cosway's face in a measure justified the satire. Irritated by the attack, the painter moved once more to No. 20 in the same street. Dr. In the lines beginning 'Fie, Cosway! I'm ashamed to say, Thou own'st the title of R.A.
He means to part us forever and this is his cruel way of doing it!" She put her arm round Cosway's neck and lovingly laid her head on his shoulder. With tenderest kisses they reiterated their vows of eternal fidelity until their voices faltered and failed them. Cosway filled up the pause by the only useful suggestion which it was now in his power to make he proposed an elopement.
The two friends, it may be remembered, had traveled to London, immediately after completing the fullest explanation of Cosway's startling behavior at the breakfast-table. Stone was not by nature a sanguine man. "I don't believe in our luck," he said. "Let us be quite sure that we are not the victims of another deception."
The most beautiful girl in the house was ready to offer herself and her fortune as consolations, if this impenetrable bachelor would only have taken her into his confidence. He smiled sadly, and changed the subject. Defeated so far, the women accepted the next alternative. One of the guests staying in the house was Mr. Cosway's intimate friend formerly his brother-officer on board ship.
Cosway's life witnessed his marriage to a woman who cheerfully paid half a million of money for the happiness of passing her life, on eight hundred a year, with the man whom she loved. But Cosway felt bound in gratitude to make a rich woman of his wife, if work and resolution could do it. When Stone last heard of him, he was reading for the bar; and Mr.
Cosway's disastrous marriage resolve themselves into certain well-marked divisions. Adopting this arrangement, he proceeds to relate: The First Epoch in Mr. Cosway's Life. The sailing of her Majesty's ship Albicore was deferred by the severe illness of the captain.
The light flooded the room, and showed him His Wife. The Third Epoch in Mr. Cosway's Life. Three days had passed. Cosway sat alone in his lodging pale and worn: the shadow already of his former self. He had not seen Adela since the discovery. There was but one way in which he could venture to make the inevitable disclosure he wrote to her; and Mr.
In the spacious saloons of Schomberg House, Cosway thought he should find ample room and verge enough both for himself and his fashionable friends. This epitaph may be read in Mr. Samuel Lucas's Secularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History, p. 293. And room was becoming very necessary; for Mrs. Cosway's receptions were now the town rage were crowded to inconvenience.
The women were the first sinners; and the men were demoralized by the women. Mr. Cosway's bitterest enemy could not have denied that he was a handsome, well-bred, unassuming man. No mystery of any sort attached to him. He had adopted the Navy as a profession had grown weary of it after a few years' service and now lived on the moderate income left to him, after the death of his parents.
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