Lady Judith A Tale of Two Continents Author:Justin McCarthy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: Sheldon and company Subjects: Irish fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing t... more »ext. 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 VII. THE CHAMPION OF A DISTRESSED DAMSEL. LADY Judith had a hard time of it with her daughter after Angelo Volney had left England for the United States. Alexia became almost unmanageable. She had discovered that her mother detested scenes and passionate public demonstrations of any kind ; and she did her very best to exploiter this weakness on the part of the elder lady. Indeed, there was something admirable in the marble, or at least stony, endurance with which Lady Judith bore up against displays coram publico, which were to her detestable and degrading. She raised her proud head firmly to meet them, and did not so much as wink an eyelid during the worst raging of the ignoble storm. Think what it is to be haughty and sensitive, to abhor all scandal and whispering comment, and to know that your family quarrels are the incessant theme of your servants and your neighbors ; and yet never to make your mental suffering manifest! Talk of Talleyrand, who could be kicked a posteriori, and yet never show in his face one hint of any mental or physical discomfort! Talk of the Duchess of Burgundy, of whom Saint Simon tells that she underwent so very trying an operation in the same room with her awful sovereign and marriage-relation, Louis the Great, and never by one grimace allowed His Majesty'to suspect that something uncomfortable was going on under his own august eyes ! The patience and self-restraint which enabled a woman so proud and so sensitive as Lady ...« less