Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 3 (of 3)

LADY HESTER STANHOPE’S RESIDENCE AT JOON, ON MOUNT LEBANON London, Henry Colburn, 1845
Day & Haghe, Lithʳᵉ to the Queen
AS RELATED BY HERSELF IN CONVERSATIONS WITH HER PHYSICIAN; COMPRISING HER OPINIONS AND ANECDOTES OF SOME OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PERSONS OF HER TIME.
All such writings and discourses as touch no man will mend no man.—Tyers’s Rhapsody on Pope .
Second Edition. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III.
LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1846.
FREDERICK SHOBERL, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, 51, RUPERT STREET, HAYMARKET, LONDON.
CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
MEMOIRS OF LADY HESTER STANHOPE.
Prince Pückler Muskau—His letter to Lady Hester Stanhope—Story of the Serpent’s Cave—Letter from Lady Hester to the Prince—Ride from Jôon to Sayda—Cadi’s Justice—Madame Conti—Syrian surgeons.
March 20.—Lady Hester rose about three in the afternoon, and went into her garden: I joined her about five o’clock. Spring had already begun to display its verdant livery. The weather was exceedingly fine, and every bush and tree seemed to have swollen with sap, buds, and leaves, so that the eye could perceive a palpable difference even from the preceding day. The birds were singing on every branch (for nobody dared to molest them in this sacred spot), and the bulbuls sat warbling a low but gentle music, which, now and then, was broken in upon by their clear whistle, falling in cadences on the ear like sweet concords. It was one of those hours which a man, who feels himself in the decline of life, or gradually sinking under disease, would most regret, in thinking that the harmony of nature must soon close on him for ever.