. The life of Mrs. Norton. d her anxiety for her dearest Hart, wasalso a mother with marriageable daughters, and assuch had her own prejudices against all three Sheridansisters, and the extraordinary power they seemed topossess for making young marriageable men forget 20 MARRIAGE [chap, ii themselves and their own more obvious advantage,and rush into mad marriages with girls who had not ashilling. She speaks of them all rather flippantly,without their prefixes, Norton, Blackwood,Sheridan, and seldom loses the opportunity of asly poke or tweak when she has occasion to mentionthem. In one of her
. The life of Mrs. Norton. d her anxiety for her dearest Hart, wasalso a mother with marriageable daughters, and assuch had her own prejudices against all three Sheridansisters, and the extraordinary power they seemed topossess for making young marriageable men forget 20 MARRIAGE [chap, ii themselves and their own more obvious advantage,and rush into mad marriages with girls who had not ashilling. She speaks of them all rather flippantly,without their prefixes, Norton, Blackwood,Sheridan, and seldom loses the opportunity of asly poke or tweak when she has occasion to mentionthem. In one of her trips across the Channel duringthe same year we find her saying : Leopold and suiteare going with us. He is going to Berlin; I shall bea very pleasant companion for him, able to talk mildLiberal politics, or of Mrs. Nortons charms, as helikes best. For Leopold, not yet but soon to beelected King of the Belgians, was another of thosepersonages who were turning their eyes with dis-tinguishing admiration on Mr. Nortons p 20] MRS. a lithograph at Chatsworth. CHAPTER III the sorrows of Rosalie—the undying one— social successes Though George Norton had shown himself so farcapable of generous feeling as to be ready to marrythe woman he loved, regardless of her lack of fortune,he was by no means indifferent to the inconveniencesresulting from this very cause. Many of the quarrelswhich embittered their marriage arose from his meanreminders that she had brought him nothing but herperson, and was therefore bound to give more andexpect less than a wife with a better dower. It wasthe sting of necessity, therefore, quite as much as herold desire for fame, which drew her again to look fora market among the publishers for her poetry. Shewas so far successful that The Sorrows of Rosalie, aTale, with other Poems, appeared anonymously inthe spring of 1829, and sold so well that with theproceeds she was able to pay all the expenses of herfirst confinement. The little books
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