CHAPTER VI. 



He Falls i\ Love — Rides bv Night to Bath — His 

 Grotesque Mount in Milsom Street — Is Married, 

 AND removes to Iddesleigh — Keeps Foxhounds, 

 and forms an xAlliaxce with Mr. C. A. Harris — ■ 

 Difficulties with Fox-killers. 



Without the smile from partial beauty won, 

 Oh I wiiat were man ? a world without a sun ! 



Campbell. 



Towards the end of 1825, or the beginning 

 of 1826, an event affecting the happiness of 

 Russell's life, at home and abroad, bid fair, 

 at least, for a time, to imperil the devotion 

 which, up to this period, he had so exclusively 

 shown to the sylvan Queen, who beyond all 

 doubt hitherto had reigned in his heart with- 

 out a rival. 



But strong and enduring as the bonds were 

 in which the goddess retained her willing cap- 

 tive, the time had now arrived when they were 

 destined to prove but as green withs com- 

 pared with those of Venus, whose power both 

 the gods and men have alike shown to be 

 irresistible. 



About this time he met with a lady whose 

 attractions at once arrested the current of his 



