The Magnificent Montez

nything of this dénouement. What, however, they did se

ouds, under the traits of a new dancer, whose fervent admirers lavished on her all the ent

throughout a graceful flowing of the arms-not an angle discernible-an indescribable softness in her attitude and suppleness in her limbs which, developed in a thousand positions (without infringing on the Opera laws), were the most i

iends must have grinned

o him that it was absolutely essential to have none but exemplary characters in the ballet; but they did not tell him where he would procure females who would have no objection to exhibiting their legs in pink silk fleshings. As Lumley could not afford to

Mr. Crummles had no choice but to ring down the curtain. As the Ranelagh faction very

had thus becom

mbridge. "The newcomer," says this critic, "was recognised as Mrs. James by a Prince of the Blood and his companions in the omnibus-box. Her beauty could not save

"Bohemian" period, he had endeavoured to fill the empty niche left in her affections by the departure of that light-o'-love, Captain Lennox, and had been repulsed for his pain

a Bond Street "beauty specialist," known as Madame Rachel, was clapped into prison for swindling a wealthy and amorous widow. This was a Mrs. Borrodaile, whom "Madame" had gull

robably few men who have had so many charges of the most varied and disagreeable nature made against them. The resultant obloqu

vances of my Lord." Lola Montez, however, did not regard it as anything at which to laugh. She may, as she boasted, have had a dash of Spanish blood in her veins, but she certainly had none of George Washington's, f

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uelly annoyed by reports that I am not really the person I pretend to be, but that I have long been known in London as a woman of disreputable character. I entreat you, Sir, to all

I remained seven months, and was then taken back to my parents in Spain. From that period, until the 14th of Ap

ty of myself and my friends to remove from the public any impression to my disadvantage. My

your obedient a

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usly forgotten her sojourn in India, just as she had forgotten her marriage to Thomas James (and the subseq

nna Lola Montez, she has not danced again," remark

ion. He did so, some years afterwards,

was, in this instance, fairly "taken in." A Noble Lord (afterwards closely connected with the Foreign Office) had introduced the lady to my notice a

the discovery of the truth, I declined to allow the English adventuress, for such she was, another appearance on my boards. In spite of the expostulations of the "friends" of the lady-in s

red to in this pompous disc

ho organised a cabal