WANDERINGS OF CHILDE HAROLDE. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. INTERSPERSED WITH MEMOIRS OF THE ENGLISH WIFE, THE FOREIGN MISTRESS, CELEBRATED CHARACTERS. ANA BY JOHN HARMAN BEDFORD, LIEUT. R.N. The cold in clime are cold in blood; Their love, it scarce deserves the name; But mine is like the lava flood, That boils in Etna's breast of flame. LORD BYRON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, JONES & CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW. A FEW WORDS TO THE READER. THE following pages are an attempt to delineate some striking particulars in the life of a WANDERER, I have, for reasons best known to myself, chose to call "CHILDE HAROLDE." That the person actually existed, is as true as that I have drawn this Romance from events in his life, which passed (many of them) in review before my own eyes. Every love story is founded on a fact; I am answerable for the embellishments alone. I have not sprinkled the path with flowers, where thorns only grew; I have not removed one cloud from the WANDERER's vices, or shorn his virtues of a single sunbeam. Mine is almost a "round a 3 |