But my resolution always failed at the approach of day, and my desire of seeing him as constantly recurred. I saw there was no safety but in flight, and often determined to banish myself for ever from the sight of this dangerous intruder. I have lain whole nights by my lord, who teased and tormented me for that which neither I could give nor he could take, and ruminated on the fatal consequences of this unhappy flame, until I was worked into a fever of disquiet. What effect then must they have had on mine, which was fraught with every sentiment of the most melting affection I sent for the doctors every minute: I wearied Heaven with my prayers even now my heart aches at the remembrance of what I suffered, and I cannot, without trembling, proceed with the woeful story.Ĭertain it is, I was extremely imprudent, though intentionally innocent. In a little time his malady settled upon his brain, and, in his delirium, he uttered such dreadful exclamations, as were sufficient to pierce the most savage heart.
This dejection continued all the day, notwithstanding the refreshment of a plentiful dinner which he ate upon the road and in the evening we arrived at the place of our destination, where we were kindly received by my mother, though she had no liking to the match and, after supper, we retired to our apartment.Īt length, however, we arrived at our lodgings in Pall Mall, where I lay by him on the floor, and attended the issue of his distemper in all the agonies of horror and despair. At length my father broke silence, and clapping his lordship on the shoulder, told him he was but a dull bridegroom upon which my lord gave him to understand that he was out of spirits.
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The nuptial knot being tied, we set out for my father’s house in the country, and proceeded full twenty miles on our journey before my lord opened his mouth, my thoughts having been all that time employed on something quite foreign to my present situation for I was then but a giddy girl of eighteen. The bridegroom and I met at Ox �?Chapel, where the ceremony was performed by the bishop of W�? in presence of his lordship’s mother, my father, and another lady.
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