Belmont Castle by Marion Deane
Author:Marion Deane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wolfe Tone, Gratttan, Anglo-Ireland
ISBN: 9781843514961
Publisher: The Lilliput Press
Published: 2013-05-29T00:00:00+00:00
LETTER IX
From Col. Neville, to Fitzroy Scudamore, Esq.
Belmont-Castle
I give you joy, my dear Scudamore, with all my heart, of your success with her Ladyshipâdonât be discouraged at any repulse she gives youâdid she not tell you she owed her life to you; then why not compound the debt with her honor?âYou have set me on fire by your description; and a little cruel piece of prudery has inflamed me in propria persona; so that, damn me, if I am not between two fires, as we say in the Coldstream.1âDo you recollect Lady Georgiana Shirley, daughter of the Earl of Belmont?âif you have ever once seen her you must;âthe dear, delicious angel; the very essence of Virtue, yet, the very figure of Temptation, with a fair complexion, dark hazel eyes, nut-brown hair, a neck like alabaster, and a heart like ice, egadâfor, damn me if ever I could melt itâand if Colonel Neville could not, I hear my Scudamore exclaim, what mortal can?âaye, but one Belville hasâa fellow with the cant of virtue and all thatâbut Iâll have revenge.ââI broke my passion to Lady Georgiana, told her I doated on her, sighed, fell at her feet, and acted an hundred extravaganciesâher answer was, she hated me.âWhat shall I do to be revenged?âcounsel me, my dear fellow, tell me how I shall triumph over the chastity of my Georgiana, and the pride of Belville.
Adieu,
Yours ever,
HENRY NEVILLE
1. The Coldstream Regiment owes its origin to General Monck, appointed by Cromwell, after the Irish campaigns, to invade Scotland. In 1783, the Nulli Secundus club, constituted of eleven members from within the regiment, was instituted. See R. McKinnon, The Services of the Coldstream Guard (London, 19xx), pp. 1 and 496.
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