Ever yours,
B.
[Footnote 1: In the 'Satirist' (vol. xiii. pp. 150, 151) is an article
headed "Scandalum Magnatum," with the motto from 'Rejected Addresses':
With horn-handled knife,
To kill a tender lamb as dead as mutton."
"A short time back (say the newspapers, and newspapers never say 'the
thing which is not') Lady H. gave a ball and supper. Among the company
were Lord B--n, Lady W--, and Lady C. L--b. Lord B., it would appear,
is a favourite with the latter Lady; on this occasion, however, he
seemed to lavish his attention on another fair object. This preference
so enraged Lady C. L. that in a paroxysm of jealousy she took up a
dessert-knife and stabbed herself. The gay circle was, of course,
immediately plunged in confusion and dismay, which however, was soon
succeeded by levity and scandal. The general cry for medical
assistance was from Lady W--d: Lady W--d!!! And why? Because it was
said that, early after her marriage, Lady W--also took a similar
liberty with her person for a similar cause, and was therefore
considered to have learned from experience the most efficacious remedy
for the complaint. It was also whispered that the Lady's husband had
most to grieve, that the attempt had not fully succeeded. Lady C. L.
is still living.
"The poet has told us how 'Ladies wish to be who love their Lords;'
but this is the first public demonstration in our times to show us how
Ladies wish to be who love, not their own, but others' Lords.
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