Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
Volume 13 -- Great Lovers
Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny OsbourneJosiah and Sarah WedgwoodWilliam Godwin and Mary WollstonecraftDante and BeatriceJohn Stuart Mill and Harriet TaylorParnell and Kitty O'sheaPetrarch and LauraDante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor SiddalBalzac and Madame HanskaFenelon and Madame GuyonFerdinand Lassalle and Helene Von DonnigesLord Nelson and Lady Hamilton
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good fellow, and soon she was enjoying all the benefits of the Siron Club. When a frivolous member suggested that it be called the Siren Club he was met with an oppressive stillness and black looks.
Mrs. Osbourne was educated, amiable, witty and wise. She evidently knew humanity, and was on good terms with sorrow, although sorrow never subdued her; what her history was nobody sought to inquire.
When she sketched, Robert Louis told pirate tales to Lloyd.
The Siron Club took on a degree of sanity that it had not known before. Little entertainments were given now and then, where Mrs. Osbourne read to the company from an unknown American poet, Joaquin Miller by name, and Bob expounded Walt Whitman.
The Americans as a people evidently were not wholly bad--at least there was hope for them. Bob began to tire of Barbizon, and finally went back to Edinburgh alone. Arriving there he had to explain why Robert Louis did not come too.
Robert Louis had met an American woman, and they seem
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