Rosina Bulwer Lytton

“ I was then shown upstairs, after she left me, into a large bedroom, with the two keepers, and the windows duly nailed down, and only opening about three inches from the top. After kneeling down and praying to GOD in a perfect agony, I bathed my face in cold water, and the little keeper was very kind and feeling, and said to me, "Oh pray, my lady, try and keep calm under this severe trial; it does seem to me to be something very monstrous, and depend upon it, GOD will never let it go on." ”

“ A something between ABELARD and old BLUCHER."7
"Oh, certainly, for your ladyship has quite bewitched my little MARY, and she cries every time a servant is ent up to you with anything instead of her." Never was anything so beautiful! as that always lovely view from Richmond Hill upon that glorious July evening, with the golden sun steeping it in light and turning the "Silver Thames" into a perfect Pactolus, while the fresh breeze from the river was real luxury after may neary three week's incarceration in that large, but low-ceilinged stuffy room, with its nailed won windows. ”

“ Of course, the provincial attorney thought the great man, and that sacred Mumbo Jumbo of a husband! (no matter how infamous) ought to be omnipotent, and that she should give them up. But she would not; and some commerical traveller in the hotel, hearing the altercation between them, very kindly called her out of the room, and said, "Ask him to show you his warrant, or authority for making such a demand. And if the fellow won't or can't, then I'll know how to deal with him." She did so, and the wretch said he had his order in his pocket. ”

“ You had better come out and take a walk, Lady L_____." "Mr. H_____," said I, "I sent for you to order you to remove those two keepers from my room, for I am not mad as you very well know, and I won't be driven mad by being treated as a maniac, and as for walking out, or associating with those poor creatures out there, if they really are insane, I'll not do it, if I am kept in you Mad-house for 10 years." "Mad-house, mad-house, nonsense! Lady L_____, this is no mad-house, and those are my children." "Then you must be a perfect DANAUS," said I, "for there are about 50 of them. ”

“ H_____ sent all his "children" to his other Madhouse farther on the road, so that I had the Palladian Villa all to myself, without even the three kings. The first evening poor Mrs. CLARKE returned about 10 o'clock with my scanty wardrobe. I implored her not, by way of consulting a lawyer, to go to Mr. H_____, who after the LYNDHURST papers and SELLER'S affair, I believed to be the thorough rascal he eventually proved himself to be. But unfortunately, at Miss R_____'s instigation, she did; for your frineds (?) always know your affairs better than you do yourself. ”

“ Lord MELBOURNE used to say that "if a lie lived only half an hour, it would do its work," and upon this plan has Sir LIAR acted all his life, which, I suppose, is what he would call "Half hours with the best Authors," to wit, the Devil and himself. The Sunday after the humbug visit of the Commissioners, and oppressively hot day, the door was unlocked, and Mr. ”