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So of herself and condition Lady Carbury has told the reader in the letters given in the former chapter, but more must be added She has declared she had been cruelly slandered; but she has also shown that she was not a woman whose words about herself could be taken with much confidence If the reader does not understand so much from her letters to the three editors they have been written in vain She has been made to say that her object in as to provide for the need of her children, and that with that noble purpose before her she was struggling to make for herself a career in literature
Detestably false as had been her letters to the editors, absolutely and abominably foul as was the entire syste to achieve success, far away from honour and honesty as she had been carried by her ready subserviency to the dirty things a which she had lately fallen, nevertheless her statements about herself were substantially true She had been ill-treated She had been slandered She was true to her children,--especially devoted to one of the so she could advance their interests
She was theof one Sir Patrick Carbury, who s as a soldier in India, and had been thereupon created a baronet He hadfound out when too late that he hadand occasionally ill-used her In doing each he had done it abundantly A Lady Carbury's faults had never been that of even incipient,--not even of sentimental--infidelity to her husband When as a lovely and penniless girl of eighteen she had consented to e income, she had made up her mind to abandon all hope of that sort of love which poets describe and which young people generally desire to experience
Sir Patrick at the tie was red-faced, stout, bald, very choleric, generous in overnmean about hiht be loved,--but he was hardly aLady Carbury had understood her position and had determined to do her duty She had resolved before she went to the altar that she would never allow herself to flirt and she had never flirted For fifteen years things had gone tolerably ith her,--by which it is intended that the reader should understand that they had so gone that she had been able to tolerate them