FAMOUS AFFINITIES OF HISTORY
THE ROMANCE OF DEVOTION
BY
LYNDON ORR
VOLUME III OF IV.
CONTENTS
[THE WIVES OF GENERAL HOUSTON]
[LOLA MONTEZ AND KING LUDWIG OF BAVARIA]
[LEON GAMBETTA AND LEONIE LEON]
[LADY BLESSINGTON AND COUNT D'ORSAY]
[BYRON AND THE COUNTESS GUICCIOLI]
[THE STORY OF MME. DE STAEL]
[THE STORY OF KARL MARX]
[FERDINAND LASSALLE AND HELENE VON DONNIGES]
[THE STORY OF RACHEL]
THE WIVES OF GENERAL HOUSTON
Sixty or seventy years ago it was considered a great joke to chalk up on any man's house-door, or on his trunk at a coaching-station, the conspicuous letters "G. T. T." The laugh went round, and every one who saw the inscription chuckled and said: "They've got it on you, old hoss!" The three letters meant "gone to Texas"; and for any man to go to Texas in those days meant his moral, mental, and financial dilapidation. Either he had plunged into bankruptcy and wished to begin life over again in a new world, or the sheriff had a warrant for his arrest.