A small
picture of him enclosed in a glass case is hung up like a barometer
at one end of the cabin.
{12} Hanmer.
{13} ". . . ubi templum illi, centumque Sabaeo
Thure calent arae, sertisque recentibus halant."
- Aeneid, i, 415.
{14} The writer advises that none should attempt to read the
following account of the late Lady Hester Stanhope except those who
may already chance to feel an interest in the personage to whom it
relates. The chapter (which has been written and printed for the
reasons mentioned in the preface) is chiefly filled with the
detailed conversation, or rather discourse, of a highly eccentric
gentlewoman.
{15} Historically "fainting"; the death did not occur until long
afterwards.
{16} I am told that in youth she was exceedingly sallow.
{17} This was my impression at the time of writing the above
passage, an impression created by the popular and uncontradicted
accounts of the matter, as well as by the tenor of Lady Hester's
conversation. I have now some reason to think that I was deceived,
and that her sway in the desert was much more limited than I had
supposed. She seems to have had from the Bedouins a fair five
hundred pounds' worth of respect, and not much more.
{18} She spoke it, I dare say, in English; the words would not be
the less effective for being spoken in an unknown tongue.
