Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. He Falls in Love--Rides by Night lo Bath--His Grotesque Mount in Milsom Street--Is Married, and removes to Iddes-leigh--Keeps Foxhounds, and forms an Alliance with Mr. C. A. Harris--Difficulties with Fox-killers. "Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh! what 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 without a rival. But strong and enduring as the bonds were in which the goddess retained her willing captive, the time had now arrived when they were destined to prove but as green withs compared 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 thoughts, and brought him on bended knee to sue for her hand. That lady was Miss Penelope Incledon Bury, the daughter of Admiral and Mrs. Bury, of Dennington House, near Barnstaple. Both the father and mother being pure North-Devoners, and claiming descent from two good old county families, they were proud of the "haveage" to which they belonged. Nor could they have taken exception to Russell's pedigree; he himself being a descendant of the Russells of Kingston-Russell; for, at the time of the Sampford Courtenay riots in the West, Lord Russell, then at Exeter, appointed one of his own relatives to preach against "the old religion;" and from him came the Russells who have remained in the county ever since. Mrs. Bury, the mother-of Penelope, was of the...
