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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...not have been without its effect, and on one occasion is said to have drawn tears from him, during a dinner party at his own house; and from my knowledge of the man, I doubt not the fact. There is a readiness to believe ill reports without examination into their truth, and we are often found guilty by those who will not trouble themselves to look into the accusation. Is all true, then, that has been reported, and credited by too many, of Mr. Mytton's conduct to his first wife? Certainly not. Fame loves to double, and the world is not only credulous, but loud, and too often scurrilous, in its censure. Not content with the various embellishments of vulgar rumour, absolute falsehoods were in general circulation; and amongst them the following:--He was accused of having thrown her lapdog--curse those lapdogs, married women have no business with such pests--upon the fire; but fortunately for the memory of my departed friend, the act that gave rise to the vile report I myself was a witness to. He merely took it up in his arms, threw it halfway up to the drawing-room ceiling, and caught it, without injury, on its descent. The butler (who happened to be in the room at the time) called out, " Oh, Mr. Mytton, you'll kill the dog," and the lady screamed and cried; and on this was the dreadful charge founded. In the hilarity of high animal spirits, Mytton was much given to practical jokes, as all his friends know. Thus, on the same lady once accompanying him to the kennel, he shut the door upon her for an instant, after he himself had got outside of it, and this was magnified into his wishing, or, I believe, intending, that she might be devoured by his fox-hounds. Again--he threw her into deep water! Nonsense; he was never mad enough to do...

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  • PublisherTheClassics.us
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 1230267360
  • ISBN 13 9781230267364
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages48
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