The Magnificent Montez

dge of the Consistory Court, however, knew a good deal more about the business than did the general public. This was because, during th

servant, a Mr. Browne Roberts, who had known the respondent's husband, first, as a bachelor in India, and afterwards as a married man in Dublin. At the beginning of 1841, he had received a call, he said, from a Major McMullen to whom Captain Craigie had written, asking him to take charge of his step-daughter o

s. James, and booked a double room." Mrs. Walters had not, she admitted, "actually discovered them undressed, or sharing the bed," but "she would not have been surprised to have done so." Accordingly, when her travelling companion left th

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st off Pall Mall, where she stopped for a month. Mrs. Martin, the proprietress, told the court that, during this

. Rae, of Edinburgh, suggesting that his wife should stop with her. Mrs. Watson, having "been told things," then called on Mrs. James in Covent Garden. "I spoke to her," she said, "of the shocking rumour that Captain Lennox had passed a night with her there, and pointe

haviour was what is sometimes called flirting." Captain Ingram, who followed, had a still more disturbing story to recount. "On several occasions," he said, "I heard Mrs. James address the gentleman who joined us at

e real sensation, however, was provi

he astonished judge, "I more than once saw

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utting on her stockings while C

stays, and watch her changing her stockings, could, in the opinion of the learned and experienced Dr. Lushington, only lead