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Mary Louisa Boyle. Mary Boyle, Her Book
Mary Boyle, Her Book
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PREFACE
CHAPTER I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE AND FAMILY
CHAPTER II. LIFE IN A DOCKYARD—FRIENDS, FAVOURITES AND RETAINERS
CHAPTER III. MY FIRST PLAY—MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF CLARENCE—DEPARTURE FOR SHEERNESS
CHAPTER IV. EARLY DRAMATIC RECOLLECTIONS—RESIDENCE AT HAMPTON COURT
CHAPTER V. LIFE AT HAMPTON COURT
CHAPTER VI. OUR EXTRA HOMES
CHAPTER VII. MY GRANDMOTHER’S MAID
CHAPTER VIII. OUR HOUSEHOLD
CHAPTER IX. BRIGHTON—SCHOOLDAYS
CHAPTER X. VISITS IN CUMBERLAND AND LEICESTERSHIRE[27] ACCESSION OF WILLIAM IV
CHAPTER XI. FIRST CONTINENTAL TRAVELS—TURIN AND GENOA
CHAPTER XII. SUMMER AT THE BATHS OF LUCCA
CHAPTER XIII. SHORT SOJOURN IN FLORENCE
CHAPTER XIV. SUMMER AT NAPLES
CHAPTER XV. PISA AND FLORENCE
CHAPTER XVI. RETURN TO ENGLAND—ACCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA—HER CORONATION
CHAPTER XVII. MILLARD’S HILL—TENBY—CHARLES YOUNG AND A COURT BALL
CHAPTER XVIII. 1844. TRIP TO THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
CHAPTER XIX. WHITTLEBURY
CHAPTER XX. MUNICH—SECOND VISIT TO ITALY
CHAPTER XXI. ARRIVAL IN ROME, 1846—OCTOBER FESTIVALS AND “POSSESSO”
CHAPTER XXII. SUMMER OF 1847—FLORENCE, VILLA CAREGGI
CHAPTER XXIII. RESIDENCE IN FLORENCE—CHARLES LEVER—REVOLUTION, AND THE BROWNINGS
CHAPTER XXIV. LAST DAYS AT FLORENCE—RETURN TO ENGLAND—MILLARD’S HILL, LONDON 1848
CHAPTER XXV. ROCKINGHAM CASTLE—CHARLES DICKENS
CHAPTER XXVI. PROTECTIONIST PARTY AT BURGHLEY[51]
CHAPTER XXVII. ALTHORP
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
VISCOUNT STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE[71]
CARLYLE
THE GROVE[75]
HINCHINGBROOKE
OSSINGTON
ASHRIDGE
WREST PARK
INDEX
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Mary Louisa Boyle
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The history of that portion of my father’s life is a long, and to me, interesting one. Suffice it to say, that from all the officials with whom he had to deal, both he and his men met with the harshest and most unjust treatment. Many of his crew succumbed under the hardships to which they were exposed in their dreary and noisome prison-houses. The bright exception to these hard-hearted functionaries was Marshal Kléber, one of Napoleon’s most distinguished generals, a man of high courage, proverbial generosity, and great personal beauty. He was Governor of Cairo at the time, and showed my father especial favour, allowing him out of prison, “on parole,” and courting his society on every occasion. He also presented him with a sword, which I grieve to say did not become an heirloom in the family as my father made it an offering to the Prince Regent.
There were many among those who surrounded the Governor, to whom my father was an object of dislike and jealousy, and when General Kléber was assassinated by a fanatic, my father was accused of being an accomplice of the assassin, and condemned to death. His only companion and comforter in those terrible hours being his favourite pointer, “Malta,” who kept him warm by lying on his chest at night, and scaring away the rats and scorpions which infested the cell. While awaiting the completion of his sentence, the prisoner wrote a most pathetic and eloquent farewell to his wife in England, then expecting her confinement. I subjoin the letter, in order that my readers may judge if the epithets I have bestowed on it be ill-chosen. I have read it over and over again, at many periods of my life, and every time
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