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"Why not, when you've done it in so many other cases?" "There ARE no other cases so bad. One meets them at any rate as they come. Some you can manage, others you can't. It's no use, you must give them up. They're past patching; there's nothing to be done with them. There's nothing accordingly to be done with Mrs. Medwin but to put her off." And Lady Wantridge rose to her height.
You're clever, Mamie, but you're not so clever as I supposed. However," he pursued, "it's out of Mrs. Medwin that you'll get it." "Get what?" "Why the cheque that will enable you to assist me." On this, for a moment, she met his eyes. "If you'll come back at seven sharp not a minute before, and not a minute after, I'll give you two five-pound notes." He thought it over.
He at once returned, as he had undertaken to do if required, and then resolved that the only thing was for him to marry at once. He accordingly went straight to his cousin Charles Grove, and with twenty-five pounds borrowed from his relative Mr. Medwin, a solicitor at Horsham, he entered on one of the most momentous days of his life the 24th or 25th August 1811.
The account given by Captain Medwin of the manner in which Lord Byron spent his time in Switzerland, has the raciness of his Lordship's own quaintness, somewhat diluted.
A marked loneliness clouded the peaceful beauty of the place a loneliness that made itself seen and felt by even the most casual visitor. With a somewhat hesitating hand Mr. Medwin pulled the door-bell. In a minute or two a maid answered the summons her eyes were red with weeping. At sight of the clergyman she looked surprised and a little frightened.
The queerer the better! It was at the foot of the stairs, when she had got her guest down, that what she had assured Mrs. Medwin would come did indeed come. "DID you meet him here yesterday?" "Dear yes. Isn't he too funny?" "Yes," said Mamie gloomily. "He IS funny. But had you ever met him before?" "Dear no!" "Oh!" and Mamie's tone might have meant many things.
This one was of the smallest and was finally judged to conform neither too little nor too much to the other conditions after a brief whirlwind of wires and counterwires, and an iterated waiting of hansoms at various doors to include Mrs. Medwin. It was from Catchmore itself that, snatching, a moment on the wondrous Sunday afternoon, this lady had the harmonious thought of sending the new cheque.
Then as her friend was silent, "Something queer about cards?" Mrs. Medwin threw off. "I don't know and I don't want to!" "Ah well, I'm sure I don't," Mrs. Medwin returned with spirit. The note of sharpness was perhaps also a little in the observation she made as she gathered herself to go. "Do you mind my saying something?" Mamie took her eyes quickly from the money on the little stand.
Mary, among her multifarious reading, notes an article by Medwin on Animal Magnetism, and Shelley, who suffered severely at this time, shortly afterwards tried its effect through Medwin. The latter bored Mary excessively; possibly she found the magnetising a wearisome operation, although Shelley is said to have been relieved by it. His highly nervous temperament was evidently impressed.
When Medwin left, Mrs. Williams undertook to carry on the cure. The Chancery suit referred to by Mary was an attempt between Sir Timothy's attorney and Shelley's to throw their affairs into Chancery, causing great alarm to them in Italy, till Horace Smith came to their rescue in England, and with indignant letters settled the inconsiderate litigation. Mrs.
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