Show now JI OU WRITE k Q LOVEo LEITER BULWER LYTTON EDWARD Shortly after Edward Edard Bulwer left school ho he say saya ya ho longed for tor someone to love him I I 1 cared not whom he said There was waa a pretty Village tillage maiden in ina Ina ina a cottage near the house of or Mr Wallington Wal- Wal lington with whom I had my first ro ro- ro mance It was wae entirely a a. case of ot pantomime pan pan- for tor I never spoke to her but butI I used to pass PUB by the door and at length she noticed mo rae and smiled and arid blushed when I passed If It I 1 saw her alono alone I looked upon her with loving lovins tenderness but if ever I saw w another person lingering lingering lin lin- lin- lin gering near I looked such indignant daggers daggers dag dag- gers that they were discomforting While at Bulwer had a love affair with witha a a. girl who was as soon forced by her father to marry another man and who died three years ears later sending to Bulwer a n. letter from her deathbed describing de scribing her sufferings sUffering and continued de do- This affair is said ald to have colored colored colored col ored tho the whole of ot his life lite In February ary 18 1826 6 when he was 23 ye years rs of ot age he declared to a a. lady Indy that love is dead to him forever and that the tre freshness of ot his youth Is burled in tho the grave How far tar this Byronic sentiment was genuine or lasting must bo be conjectured but it would appear that he turned hImself himself him him- self sell entirely over o to his mother from thin on Shortly atter afterward ard Bulwer had a strange flirtation with Lady Caroline Lamb and when later he lie was waa In Paris tho Abbe PI posed to him a marriage with witha a a. daughter aughter of the Marquise de la Ia Roche- Roche To this his mother seriously serious serious- ly 11 objected but when she tried to In In In- with an attachment ho had formed for MIss Mies Rosina ROBina Doyle Wheeler in London he he- wrote to her hel as follows Do not my dear mother let us misunderstand misunderstand mis mis- understand each other When you ou talk of disentangling me me I can assure you OU that there is la no entanglement at all To Miss Wheeler I am tied only by the strength of or my affection an and my esteem and this tie nothing can undo but her unworthiness and that would bo be m my worst affliction The only circumstance that can dela delay our marriage is the prospect prospector of or your full consent to It It Nor is my lovo for Rosina of or the sort you suppose T BUB AfF iA all her hor faults such as they nrc on REGARDING MISS WHEELER but I love her mind a 9 thousand times more moro than her beauty Bulwer was at this time almost wholly dependent upon his mother for his sue SUB To tho the foregoing letter his mother responded In a a. no doubt threatening threat threat- ening manner maimer for a a. month later his bl- bl quotes the following reply My Iy dear mother for tor Gods God's sake spare me I have neither health nor strength to bear one half not even tenth one-tenth part of ot what I do suffer Grant all you ou sa say Grant that I exaggerate Miss Wheelers Wheeler's affection tio tion for mo me and that she will not break her heart if I leave herThe herThe her The length of ot my engagement has only confirmed m my love and esteem for tor MI Miss s Wheeler and were I now to forfeit hers for or the sako sake of or an any worldly ad advantage advantage nd- nd vantage what worldly advantage ad could render tolerable to me my own estimate of ot myself Enough h of or this All you ou say only makes me rne more wretched without without without with with- out moving Ino me mc an Iota lota from the tho only path I can tread with self felt respect I 1 scarcely know what I am writ writing I n Go to town if J you ou wish See Miss Wheelen Wheel heel pr en If It von veil o If it tim ties us an are aro to bo be broken she Is the tho only human being who can break them Bulwer found himself bound In honor as vell as b by feeling to marry Miss II s Wheeler fo so tho the event was as finally celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- on oil August 23 29 lS 7 Two da days das a previously ho lie wrote to his mother as aR follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows Whatever cr you jou think now no of altI aliI alt all allI I have havo s sold said ll YOU you will vilt forgive mo nio hereafter hero hero- after for Cor having Im spoken en plainly plain even cven warmly If It I ha have lost your our affection It h has s not been without tho the lf keenest enest effort ef d- fort to retain it I only onh entreat you jou OU ag again ln and again to pau pause e as ns my sole motive o has been to lo deserve tho sympathy sympathy Ul thy you ou withhold and now If It this Isto is isto isto to end all correspondence between us I Ican Ican can cm only wish you jou OU that you ou shall shah never be disturbed 1 b by tim the unwelcome Intrusion nf If YOur nuin t I son pon on T TO T. T Ti n. n Shortly after his marriage Bulwer w Wi well ell able ablo to sustain himself and wi wJ through his success in literature and tl ti affectionate letters ho he wrote his moth upon the birth of or his daughter and tl U publication of or his books gradually led leda I Ia a reconciliation The married life of or tl U however turned out to bean thing but a Q happy one and they final lived apart |