LIFE OF MYTTON. 



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Mr. Myttoii. "Then come and live with me; I'll 

 settle 500/. a year upon you." 



Here was no law's delay ; no worm in the bud ; 

 no concealment feeding on the damask cheek ; but 

 love at first sight, if any love there was. =1 The 

 bargain being struck, the broomstick jumped over, 

 the happy couple soon afterwards arrived at Calais, at 

 the Crown Hotel ; Mr. Roberts, under such circum- 

 stances, being compelled to decline the honour ot 

 their company. But the strangest part of the affair 

 is to come. This young woman, then only in her 

 twentieth year, whom no doubt some scoundrel had 

 seduced and abandoned, was not only possessed of 

 considerable personal charms, but proved to be very 

 respectably connected,""' and conducted herself towards 

 her protector so much better than could be expected, 

 considering whence she was imported, and that his 

 lusty love had gone "in quest of beauty," and not 

 " in search of virtue," that I saw a letter to her from 

 his mother, acknowledging her kindness towards her 

 son. But wife or mistress made no difference with 



* The Inte Lord Arundel, who was at this time sojourning at the 

 Royal Hotel, on his road to Italy, confirmed to me the respectability of 

 her connections on hearing their names mentioned. 



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