Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon-- Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son-- Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_. CHAPTER VIII. FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW LOVE 205 Shelley’s Refusal to join in the Resettlement of A and B--His Places of Residence in Two Years and Eight Months--_A Refutation of Deism_--Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Discord between Shelley and Harriett--Their Remarriage--Miss Westbrook’s Withdrawal--Shelley’s Desertion of Harriett--The Desertion closes in Separation by mutual Agreement--‘Do what other Women do!’--Causes of the Separation--How Shelley’s Evidence touching them should be regarded--Peacock’s Testimony for Harriett--Shelley in Skinner Street--‘The Mask of Scorn’--Mary Godwin _not_ bred up to mate in Free Contract--Old St. Pancras Church--At Mary Wollstonecraft’s Grave--Claire’s Part in the Wooing--Excuses for Mary Godwin--The Elopement from Skinner Street--From London to Dover--From Dover to Calais--A ‘Scene’ at Calais--The Joint Journal--Mrs. Shelley convicted of Tampering with Evidence-- The Six Weeks’ Tour--Shelley begs Harriett to come to him in Switzerland--Byron’s Hunger for Evil Fame--Shelley’s Self-Approbation and Self-Righteousness--Godwin’s Wrath with Shelley--Their subsequent Relations--Shelley’s Renewal of Intercourse with Harriett--Tiffs and Disagreements between Claire and Mary--Claire’s Incapacity for Friendship--She wants more than Friendship from Shelley. CHAPTER IX. BISHOPGATE 257