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Edward Wortley Montagu; An Autobiography [ficious]
Edward Wortley Montagu An Autobiography - ficious Author:Edward Vaughan Kenealy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: T. C. Newby Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing... more » text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. ' The men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from erery quarter." The 12th of August, 1712, was a day memorable for many things, not the least of which was my mother's marriage. She came to her husband, as she said herself, with only " a night-gown and a petticoat," and she was probably agreeable enough for a few moments in these habiliments, but I never could discover that his passion survived th e first four-and-twenty hours of their union. In a month or two he sent her to a remote par t of the country, while he himself wandered about to various places, now saying that he was electioneering, now engaged in visiting friends, who were to interfere between the two rival and angry fathers-in-law, now amnsing himself in London, where he received his letters at Jacob Tonson's, opposite Catherine Street, in the Strand, now advertising for mortgages and young spendthrift heirs, who paid exhorbitant interest for ready money. Never did any man more suddenly get cured than he did. But what discovery had he made that so suddenly sickened him of his fair bride? What damning fact transpired that put his love, to flight in the hymeneal hour? Had my lady -- ? But no ; these things can be only matter of guess. Nor is it for me to search too deeply into this abstruse enquiry. Certain it is that he would have given a large sum to be free again. He left her, and with ill concealed scorn. She, meanw...« less