The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story-- The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon-- Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street. CHAPTER IV. THE IRISH CAMPAIGN, AND THE STAY AT NANTGWILLT 78 Opium and Hallucination at Keswick--Migration to Ireland-- Shelley’s Letters to Miss Hitchener--Curran’s Coldness to the Adventurer--Publication of the _Address to the Irish People_-- Measures for putting the Pamphlet in Circulation--Harriett’s Amusement--Shelley’s Seriousness--Shelley’s other Irish Tract--Public Meeting in the Fishamble Street Theatre-- Shelley’s Speech to the Sixth Resolution--Various Accounts of the Speech--Mr. MacCarthy’s bad Manners--Honest Jack Lawless--His Project for a History of Ireland--His Way of handling Shelley--William Godwin’s Alarm--Shelley’s Submission--His Intercourse with Curran--His Withdrawal from Ireland--Seizure of his Papers at the Holyhead Custom-House--Harriett’s Letter to Portia--The Shelleys in Wales--Miss Hitchener’s ‘Divine Suggestion’--Harriett and Eliza don’t think it ‘Divine’--Shelley at Nantgwillt--His Scheme for turning Farmer--His comprehensive Invitation to the Godwins--His sudden Departure from Nantgwillt--Cause of the Departure--Mr. MacCarthy again at Fault. CHAPTER V. NORTH DEVON 100